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90_HB0316
New Act
Creates the Soybean Ink Act. Requires contractors to use
soybean oil-based ink in providing printing services for
units of local government and school districts unless the
local government or school district determines another type
ink is required for quality or cost reasons.
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1 AN ACT concerning the use of soybean ink.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be known as the
5 Soybean Ink Act.
6 Section 5. Definition. As used in this Act, "printing"
7 means and includes all processes and operations involved in
8 printing and any type of photographic reproduction or other
9 duplicating process, including but not limited to
10 letterpress, offset, and gravure processes, the multilith
11 method, any type of photographic or other duplicating
12 process, and the operations of composition, platemaking,
13 presswork, and binding. "Printing" also means the end
14 products of those processes, methods, and operations.
15 "Printing" does not include photocopiers used in the course
16 of normal business activities, photographic equipment used
17 for geographic mapping, or preprinted matter or printed
18 matter that is commonly available to the general public from
19 vendor inventory.
20 Section 10. Use of soybean ink. Contractors shall use
21 soybean oil-based ink when providing printing services to
22 units of local government and school districts unless the
23 unit of local government or school district determines that
24 another type of ink is required to assure high quality and
25 reasonable pricing of the printed product.