100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB1586

 

Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Bill Cunningham

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 835/3b new

    Amends the State Parks Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources may establish rules for the public to safely and appropriately scatter cremated remains in a State park. Defines "cremated remains."


LRB100 07930 SLF 18003 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB1586LRB100 07930 SLF 18003 b

1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Parks Act is amended by adding Section
53b as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 835/3b new)
7    Sec. 3b. Scattering of cremated remains.The Department may
8establish rules for the public to safely and appropriately
9scatter cremated remains in a State park. For the purposes of
10this Section, "cremated remains" as the same meaning ascribed
11to it in Section 5 of the Crematory Regulation Act.