Full Text of HB4159 95th General Assembly
HB4159ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Environment & Energy Committee
Filed: 2/14/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4159
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4159 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 10-20.19c and 34-18.15 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.19c)
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| Sec. 10-20.19c. Recycled paper and paper products and solid | 8 |
| waste management .
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| (a) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following | 10 |
| terms shall
have the meanings indicated, unless the context | 11 |
| otherwise requires:
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| "Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to | 13 |
| remove inks,
clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
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| "High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset | 15 |
| printing
paper, duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), | 16 |
| tablet paper, office
paper, note pads, xerographic paper, |
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| envelopes, form bond including
computer paper and carbonless | 2 |
| forms, book papers, bond papers, ledger paper,
book stock and | 3 |
| cotton fiber papers.
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| "Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and | 5 |
| writing papers,
tissue products, newsprint, unbleached | 6 |
| packaging and recycled paperboard.
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| "Postconsumer material" means only those products | 8 |
| generated by a business
or consumer which have served their | 9 |
| intended end uses, and which have been
separated or diverted | 10 |
| from solid waste; wastes generated during the
production of an | 11 |
| end product are excluded.
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| "Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated | 13 |
| after the
completion of the papermaking process, such as | 14 |
| postconsumer materials,
envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, | 15 |
| printing waste, cutting and
other converting waste, butt rolls, | 16 |
| and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories,
and rejected unused | 17 |
| stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not
include | 18 |
| fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process such | 19 |
| as
fibers recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper | 20 |
| machine rolls (mill
broke), or fibrous byproducts of | 21 |
| harvesting, extraction or woodcutting
processes, or forest | 22 |
| residues such as bark.
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| "Recycled paperboard" includes paperboard products, | 24 |
| folding cartons and
pad backings.
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| "Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels, | 26 |
| paper napkins,
facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial |
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| wipers, paper bags and brown
papers. These products shall also | 2 |
| be unscented and shall not be colored.
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| "Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber | 4 |
| storage boxes.
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| (a-5) Each school district shall periodically review its | 6 |
| procurement procedures and specifications related to the | 7 |
| purchase of products and supplies. Those procedures and | 8 |
| specifications must be modified as necessary to require the | 9 |
| school district to seek out products and supplies that contain | 10 |
| recycled materials and to ensure that purchased products and | 11 |
| supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled | 12 |
| materials, if economically and practically feasible. In | 13 |
| selecting products and supplies that contain recycled | 14 |
| material, preference must be given to products and supplies | 15 |
| that contain the highest amount of recycled material and that | 16 |
| are consistent with the effective use of the product or supply, | 17 |
| if economically and practically feasible. | 18 |
| (b) Wherever economically and practically feasible, as | 19 |
| determined by the
school board, the school board, all public | 20 |
| schools and
attendance centers within a school district, and | 21 |
| their school supply stores
shall procure recycled paper and | 22 |
| paper products as follows:
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| (1) Beginning July 1, 2008 1992 , at least 10% of the | 24 |
| total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by | 25 |
| school boards, public schools and
attendance centers, and | 26 |
| their school supply stores shall be recycled paper
and |
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| paper products . ;
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| (2) Beginning July 1, 2011 1995 , at least 25% of the | 3 |
| total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by | 4 |
| school boards, public schools and
attendance centers, and | 5 |
| their school supply stores shall be recycled paper
and | 6 |
| paper products . ;
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| (3) Beginning July 1, 2014 1999 , at least 50% 40% of | 8 |
| the total dollar value of
paper and paper products | 9 |
| purchased by school boards, public schools and
attendance | 10 |
| centers, and their school supply stores shall be recycled | 11 |
| paper
and paper products . ;
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| (4) Beginning July 1, 2020 2001 , at least 75% 50% of | 13 |
| the total dollar value of
paper and paper products | 14 |
| purchased by school boards, public schools and
attendance | 15 |
| centers, and their school supply stores shall be recycled | 16 |
| paper
and paper products . ;
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| (5) Beginning upon the effective date of this | 18 |
| amendatory Act of 1992,
all paper purchased by the board of | 19 |
| education, public schools and attendance
centers for | 20 |
| publication of student newspapers shall be recycled | 21 |
| newsprint.
The amount purchased shall not be included in | 22 |
| calculating the amounts
specified in paragraphs (1) | 23 |
| through (4).
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| (c) Paper and paper products purchased from private sector | 25 |
| vendors
pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper | 26 |
| and paper products
for the purposes of subsection (b), unless |
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| purchased under contract for
the printing of student | 2 |
| newspapers.
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| (d)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the | 4 |
| recycled
paper and paper products referred to in subsection (b) | 5 |
| shall contain
postconsumer or recovered paper materials as | 6 |
| specified by paper category in
this subsection:
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(i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper | 8 |
| shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. Such | 9 |
| recovered paper material, until
July 1, 2008 1994 , shall | 10 |
| consist of at least 20% deinked stock or postconsumer
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| material; and beginning July 1, 2008 1994 , shall consist of | 12 |
| at least 25% deinked
stock or postconsumer material; and | 13 |
| beginning July 1, 2010 1996 , shall consist of
at least 30% | 14 |
| deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July | 15 |
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2012 1998 , shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock | 16 |
| or postconsumer material;
and beginning July 1, 2014 2000 , | 17 |
| shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or
postconsumer | 18 |
| material.
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(ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, | 20 |
| shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and | 21 |
| beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% | 22 |
| postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
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| contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning | 24 |
| July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% postconsumer | 25 |
| material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at | 26 |
| least 45% postconsumer material.
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(iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, shall | 2 |
| contain at
least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning | 3 |
| July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 50% postconsumer | 4 |
| material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at | 5 |
| least 60% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, | 6 |
| 1998,
shall contain at least 70% postconsumer material; and | 7 |
| beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at least 80% | 8 |
| postconsumer material.
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(iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, | 10 |
| 1994, shall contain at
least 35% postconsumer material; and | 11 |
| beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 40% | 12 |
| postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
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| contain at least 45% postconsumer material; and beginning | 14 |
| July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 50% postconsumer | 15 |
| material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at | 16 |
| least 55% postconsumer material.
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(v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall | 18 |
| contain at
least 80% postconsumer material; and beginning | 19 |
| July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 85% postconsumer | 20 |
| material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at | 21 |
| least 90% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, | 22 |
| 1998,
shall contain at least 95% postconsumer material.
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| (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer | 24 |
| material" includes:
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| (i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous waste from | 26 |
| retail stores, office
buildings, homes and so forth, |
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| after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a | 2 |
| consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old | 3 |
| newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and | 4 |
| used cordage; and
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| (ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes | 6 |
| that are diverted or
separated from the municipal waste | 7 |
| stream.
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| (3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper | 9 |
| material" includes:
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| (i) postconsumer material;
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| (ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated | 12 |
| after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, | 13 |
| those manufacturing operations up to and
including the | 14 |
| cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into | 15 |
| smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope | 16 |
| cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and | 17 |
| paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, | 18 |
| forming
and other converting operations, or from bag, | 19 |
| box and carton manufacturing,
and butt rolls, mill | 20 |
| wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
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| (iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete | 22 |
| inventories of paper
and paperboard manufacturers, | 23 |
| merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers,
converters | 24 |
| or others.
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| (e) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to art | 26 |
| materials,
nor to any newspapers, magazines, text books, |
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| library books or other
copyrighted publications which are | 2 |
| purchased or used by any school board or
any public school or | 3 |
| attendance center within a school district, or which
are sold | 4 |
| in any school supply store operated by or within any such | 5 |
| school
or attendance center, other than newspapers written, | 6 |
| edited or produced
by students enrolled in the school district, | 7 |
| public school or attendance
center.
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| (e-5) Before July 1, 2010, each school board shall develop | 9 |
| a comprehensive waste reduction plan covering a period of 15 | 10 |
| years that addresses the management of solid waste generated by | 11 |
| academic, administrative, and other institutional functions. | 12 |
| This comprehensive waste reduction plan must be updated by the | 13 |
| school district every 5 years. | 14 |
| The comprehensive waste reduction plan shall provide for | 15 |
| recycling of marketable materials that are present in the | 16 |
| school district's waste stream at the time the plan is | 17 |
| developed or updated, including without limitation landscape | 18 |
| waste, corrugated cardboard, computer paper, and white office | 19 |
| paper. The plan shall also provide for the investigation of | 20 |
| potential markets for other recyclable materials that are | 21 |
| present in the school district's waste stream. The recycling | 22 |
| provisions of the comprehensive waste reduction plan must be | 23 |
| designed to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% | 24 |
| reduction in the amount of solid waste that is generated by the | 25 |
| school district and identified by the plan as being subject to | 26 |
| landfill disposal. |
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| (f) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the | 2 |
| Departments of
Central Management Services and Commerce and | 3 |
| Economic Opportunity, may adopt such
rules and regulations as | 4 |
| it deems necessary
to assist districts in carrying out the | 5 |
| provisions of this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/34-18.15) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.15)
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| Sec. 34-18.15. Recycled paper and paper products and solid | 9 |
| waste management .
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| (a) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following | 11 |
| terms shall have
the meanings indicated, unless the context | 12 |
| otherwise requires:
| 13 |
| "Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to | 14 |
| remove inks,
clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
| 15 |
| "High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset | 16 |
| printing paper,
duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), | 17 |
| tablet paper, office paper,
note pads, xerographic paper, | 18 |
| envelopes, form bond including computer
paper and carbonless | 19 |
| forms, book papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book
stock and | 20 |
| cotton fiber papers.
| 21 |
| "Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and | 22 |
| writing papers,
tissue products, newsprint, unbleached | 23 |
| packaging and recycled paperboard.
| 24 |
| "Postconsumer material" means only those products | 25 |
| generated by a business
or consumer which have served their |
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| intended end uses, and which have been
separated or diverted | 2 |
| from solid waste; wastes generated during the
production of an | 3 |
| end product are excluded.
| 4 |
| "Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated | 5 |
| after the
completion of the papermaking process, such as | 6 |
| postconsumer materials,
envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, | 7 |
| printing waste, cutting and
other converting waste, butt rolls, | 8 |
| and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories,
and rejected unused | 9 |
| stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not
include | 10 |
| fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process as | 11 |
| fibers
recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper machine | 12 |
| rolls (mill
broke), or fibrous byproducts of harvesting, | 13 |
| extraction or woodcutting
processes, or forest residues such as | 14 |
| bark.
| 15 |
| "Recycled paperboard" includes paperboard products, | 16 |
| folding cartons
and pad backings.
| 17 |
| "Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels, | 18 |
| paper napkins,
facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial | 19 |
| wipers, paper bags and brown
papers. These products shall also | 20 |
| be unscented and shall not be colored.
| 21 |
| "Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber | 22 |
| storage boxes.
| 23 |
| (a-5) The school district shall periodically review its | 24 |
| procurement procedures and specifications related to the | 25 |
| purchase of products and supplies. Those procedures and | 26 |
| specifications must be modified as necessary to require the |
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| school district to seek out products and supplies that contain | 2 |
| recycled materials and to ensure that purchased products and | 3 |
| supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled | 4 |
| materials, if economically and practically feasible. In | 5 |
| selecting products and supplies that contain recycled | 6 |
| material, preference must be given to products and supplies | 7 |
| that contain the highest amount of recycled material and that | 8 |
| are consistent with the effective use of the product or supply, | 9 |
| if economically and practically feasible. | 10 |
| (b) Wherever economically and practically feasible, as | 11 |
| determined by the
board of education, the board of education, | 12 |
| all public schools and
attendance centers within the school | 13 |
| district, and their school supply
stores shall procure recycled | 14 |
| paper and paper products as follows:
| 15 |
| (1) Beginning July 1, 2008 1992 , at least 10% of the | 16 |
| total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by | 17 |
| the board of education, public
schools and attendance | 18 |
| centers, and their school supply stores shall be
recycled | 19 |
| paper and paper products . ;
| 20 |
| (2) Beginning July 1, 2011 1995 , at least 25% of the | 21 |
| total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by | 22 |
| the board of education, public
schools and attendance | 23 |
| centers, and their school supply stores shall be
recycled | 24 |
| paper and paper products . ;
| 25 |
| (3) Beginning July 1, 2014 1999 , at least 50% 40% of | 26 |
| the total dollar value of
paper and paper products |
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| purchased by the board of education, public
schools and | 2 |
| attendance centers, and their school supply stores shall be
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| recycled paper and paper products . ;
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| (4) Beginning July 1, 2020 2001 , at least 75% 50% of | 5 |
| the total dollar value of
paper and paper products | 6 |
| purchased by the board of education, public
schools and | 7 |
| attendance centers, and their school supply stores shall be
| 8 |
| recycled paper and paper products . ;
| 9 |
| (5) Beginning upon the effective date of this | 10 |
| amendatory Act of 1992,
all paper purchased by the board of | 11 |
| education, public schools and
attendance centers for | 12 |
| publication of student newspapers shall be recycled
| 13 |
| newsprint. The amount purchased shall not be included in | 14 |
| calculating the
amounts specified in paragraphs (1) | 15 |
| through (4).
| 16 |
| (c) Paper and paper products purchased from private sector | 17 |
| vendors
pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper | 18 |
| and paper products
for the purposes of subsection (b), unless | 19 |
| purchased under contract for
the printing of student | 20 |
| newspapers.
| 21 |
| (d)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the | 22 |
| recycled
paper and paper products referred to in subsection (b) | 23 |
| shall contain
postconsumer or recovered paper materials as | 24 |
| specified by paper category in
this subsection:
| 25 |
| (i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper | 26 |
| shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. Such |
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| recovered paper material, until
July 1, 2008 1994 , shall | 2 |
| consist of at least 20% deinked stock or postconsumer
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| material; and beginning July 1, 2008 1994 , shall consist of | 4 |
| at least 25% deinked
stock or postconsumer material; and | 5 |
| beginning July 1, 2010 1996 , shall consist of
at least 30% | 6 |
| deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July | 7 |
| 1, 2012
1998 , shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock | 8 |
| or postconsumer material;
and beginning July 1, 2014 2000 , | 9 |
| shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or
postconsumer | 10 |
| material.
| 11 |
| (ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, | 12 |
| shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and | 13 |
| beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% | 14 |
| postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
| 15 |
| contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning | 16 |
| July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% postconsumer | 17 |
| material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at | 18 |
| least 45% postconsumer material.
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| (iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, shall | 20 |
| contain at
least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning | 21 |
| July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 50% postconsumer | 22 |
| material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at | 23 |
| least 60% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, | 24 |
| 1998,
shall contain at least 70% postconsumer material; and | 25 |
| beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at least 80% | 26 |
| postconsumer material.
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| (iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, | 2 |
| 1994, shall contain at
least 35% postconsumer material; and | 3 |
| beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 40% | 4 |
| postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
| 5 |
| contain at least 45% postconsumer material; and beginning | 6 |
| July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 50% postconsumer | 7 |
| material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at | 8 |
| least 55% postconsumer material.
| 9 |
| (v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall | 10 |
| contain at
least 80% postconsumer material; and beginning | 11 |
| July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 85% postconsumer | 12 |
| material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at | 13 |
| least 90% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, | 14 |
| 1998,
shall contain at least 95% postconsumer material.
| 15 |
| (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer | 16 |
| material" includes:
| 17 |
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(i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous waste from | 18 |
| retail stores, office
buildings, homes and so forth, | 19 |
| after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a | 20 |
| consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old | 21 |
| newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and | 22 |
| used cordage; and
| 23 |
|
(ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes | 24 |
| that are diverted or
separated from the municipal waste | 25 |
| stream.
| 26 |
| (3) For the purpose of this Section, "recovered paper |
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| material" includes:
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(i) postconsumer material;
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(ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated | 4 |
| after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, | 5 |
| those manufacturing operations up to and
including the | 6 |
| cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into | 7 |
| smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope | 8 |
| cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and | 9 |
| paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, | 10 |
| forming
and other converting operations, or from bag, | 11 |
| box and carton manufacturing,
and butt rolls, mill | 12 |
| wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
| 13 |
|
(iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete | 14 |
| inventories of paper
and paperboard manufacturers, | 15 |
| merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers,
converters | 16 |
| or others.
| 17 |
| (e) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to art | 18 |
| materials,
nor to any newspapers, magazines, text books, | 19 |
| library books or other
copyrighted publications which are | 20 |
| purchased or used by the board of
education or any public | 21 |
| school or attendance center within the school
district, or | 22 |
| which are sold in any school supply store operated by or
within | 23 |
| any such school or attendance center, other than newspapers
| 24 |
| written, edited or produced by students enrolled in the school | 25 |
| district,
public school or attendance center.
| 26 |
| (e-5) Before July 1, 2010, the board shall develop a |
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| comprehensive waste reduction plan covering a period of 15 | 2 |
| years that addresses the management of solid waste generated by | 3 |
| academic, administrative, and other institutional functions. | 4 |
| This comprehensive waste reduction plan must be updated by the | 5 |
| school district every 5 years. | 6 |
| The comprehensive waste reduction plan shall provide for | 7 |
| recycling of marketable materials that are present in the | 8 |
| school district's waste stream at the time the plan is | 9 |
| developed or updated, including without limitation landscape | 10 |
| waste, corrugated cardboard, computer paper, and white office | 11 |
| paper. The plan shall also provide for the investigation of | 12 |
| potential markets for other recyclable materials that are | 13 |
| present in the school district's waste stream. The recycling | 14 |
| provisions of the comprehensive waste reduction plan must be | 15 |
| designed to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% | 16 |
| reduction in the amount of solid waste that is generated by the | 17 |
| school district and identified by the plan as being subject to | 18 |
| landfill disposal. | 19 |
| (f) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the | 20 |
| Departments of
Central Management Services and Commerce and | 21 |
| Economic Opportunity, may adopt such
rules and regulations as | 22 |
| it deems necessary
to assist districts in carrying out the | 23 |
| provisions of this Section.
| 24 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
| 25 |
| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
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| Section 8.32 as follows: | 2 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) | 3 |
| Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 4 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 5 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 6 |
| the 95th General Assembly. | 7 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 |
| becoming law.".
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