Illinois opts for the most straightforward possible approach to weather modification regulation: a complete prohibition with no accompanying enforcement provisions, penalties, or an administrative framework.
Wording tweaked and reintroduced as SB2956
Illinois SB2956 declares weather modification prohibited statewide but provides no enforcement mechanism, penalties, or regulatory framework—making it a purely symbolic prohibition that couldn't actually stop anyone from cloud seeding.
Remained in assignments
A minimalist two-page bill that would ban all weather modification in Illinois but provides no penalties, no enforcement agency, and no mechanism for compliance, making it a symbolic prohibition rather than an enforceable law.
Assigned to Environment and Conservation, returned to assignments - no further action taken.
A word-for-word reintroduction of Senator Anderson's failed 2023 weather modification ban, which met the same fate in a different committee - twice postponed, then returned to Assignments, where it died without a vote despite an attempted amendment.
Twice, assigned to Executive committee, and returned to assignments until sine die