FIREWORKS REGULATION-SPARKLERS

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois and the Pyrotechnic Use Act. Provides that "fireworks" and "consumer fireworks" do not include handheld or ground-based sparklers that are nonexplosive and nonaerial, sometimes producing a crackling or whistling effect, and containing 75 grams or less of pyrotechnic composition per tube or a total of 500 grams or less for multiple tubes (rather than only sparklers) or wood stick or wire sparklers containing not more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item. Effective January 1, 2024.

Every action

14 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Mar 2, 2023CommitteeSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
2. Mar 7, 2023CommitteeSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Executive · Senate Assignments
3. Mar 10, 2023SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 24, 2023
4. Mar 23, 2023SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 31, 2023
5. Mar 31, 2023CommitteeRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
6. Mar 31, 2023CommitteeSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
7. May 19, 2023SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney
8. Jan 7, 2025SenateSession Sine Die

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.

• Napoleon Harris IIID Primary sponsor · District 15