HB3885 Summary

• Amends the Environmental Protection Act to clarify that local governments retain authority to adopt ordinances imposing additional operating restrictions or prohibiting ethylene oxide sterilization operations within their jurisdictions.

• Adds subsection (o) to Section 9.16, stating nothing in the ethylene oxide control provisions limits home rule units' ability to regulate facilities permitted to emit ethylene oxide.

• Applies to facilities located within home rule unit boundaries that are permitted to emit ethylene oxide.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.