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Introduced
02/05/2025
02/05/2025
In Committee
05/15/2025
05/15/2025
Crossed Over
04/10/2025
04/10/2025
Passed
08/01/2025
08/01/2025
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
08/01/2025
08/01/2025
Introduced Session
104th General Assembly
Bill Summary
Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources has the power to exercise all rights, powers, and duties conferred by law and to take measures that are necessary for the implementation of rewilding as a conservation strategy in this State, including, but not limited to, the restoration of land to its natural state, the reintroduction of native species, particularly apex predators and keystone species, and the restoration of ecological processes as defined by State-specific baselines.
AI Summary
This bill amends the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) law to explicitly authorize the agency to implement "rewilding" as a conservation strategy. Rewilding is an ecological approach aimed at restoring ecosystems to their natural state by reintroducing native species and ecological processes. Specifically, the bill empowers the DNR to take comprehensive measures to restore lands, reintroduce native species (with particular emphasis on apex predators and keystone species), and re-establish ecological processes according to state-specific baseline conditions. Apex predators are top-level carnivores that play a critical role in maintaining ecosystem balance, while keystone species are organisms that have a disproportionately large impact on their environment relative to their abundance. By codifying these rewilding principles into law, the bill provides the DNR with clear legal authority to undertake complex ecological restoration projects that aim to reconstruct more natural, self-sustaining ecosystems within Illinois.
Committee Categories
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Sponsors (9)
Anna Moeller (D)*,
Rachel Ventura (D)*,
Diane Blair-Sherlock (D),
Kelly Cassidy (D),
Martha Deuter (D),
Nicolle Grasse (D),
Thaddeus Jones (D),
Anne Stava-Murray (D),
Maurice West (D),
Last Action
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0062 (on 08/01/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2726&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104 |
| BillText | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/HB/10400HB2726enr.htm |
| BillText | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/HB/10400HB2726eng.htm |
| BillText | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/HB/10400HB2726.htm |
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