430 ILCS 185/17: Interoperability.

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(a) The Agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall designate on its website a declaration process and one or more federal laws, regulations, or guidance documents that meet all of the following conditions for the purposes of subsection (b):

(1) the law, regulation, or guidance document imposes or states standards or requirements for critical safety incident reporting that are substantially equivalent to, or stricter than, those required by this Act;

(2) the law, regulation, or guidance document described in paragraph (1) does not need to require critical safety incident reporting to the State of Illinois;

(3) the law, regulation, or guidance document is intended to assess, detect, or mitigate the catastrophic risk in ways that are substantially equivalent to this Act; and

(4) the law, regulation, or guidance document requires the large frontier developer to undergo independent third-party audits of its assessment of catastrophic risks and critical safety incident reporting with requirements that are substantially equivalent to, or stricter than, those required by this Act.

(b)(1) A frontier developer that intends to comply with this Act by complying with the requirements of, or meeting the standards stated by, a federal law, regulation, or guidance document designated in subsection (a) shall declare its intent to do so to the Agency by following the process outlined on the Agency's website.

(2) After a frontier developer has declared its intent pursuant to paragraph (1), both of the following apply:

(A) the frontier developer shall be deemed in compliance with this Act to the extent that the frontier developer meets the standards of, or complies with the requirements imposed or stated by, the designated federal law, regulation, or guidance document until the frontier developer declares the revocation of that intent to the Agency in the manner provided for on the Agency's website; and

(B) the failure by a frontier developer to meet the standards of, or comply with the requirements stated by, the federal law, regulation, or guidance document designated pursuant to subsection (a) shall constitute a violation of this Act.

(c) The Agency shall issue updated guidance documents on its website if the requirements of subsection (a) are no longer met.