SB3909 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3909

Introduced 3/6/2012, by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

605 ILCS 5/5-301

from Ch. 121, par. 5-301

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that before the Superintendent of Highways of a county with a population of 2 million or more inhabitants may update the long-range highway transportation plan for that county, as annually required, all of the following requirements must be met: (i) at least 90 days before the plan is required to be updated, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the county must submit the proposed updated plan to the Chairpersons of the Transportation Committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives, (ii) at least 90 days before the plan is required to be updated, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the county must prepare and deliver a presentation on the proposed updated plan for the Transportation Committees in each chamber and address any questions that members of those committees might have about the proposed updated plan, and (iii) at least 60 days before the plan is required to be updated, the proposed updated plan must be approved in whole or rejected in whole by joint resolution of the General Assembly. Provides that if these requirements are not met, then no State moneys may be spent or appropriated on highway improvement projects identified in the proposed updated plan. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing Section 5-301 as follows:

(605 ILCS 5/5-301) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-301)

Sec. 5-301. Highway transportation plan.

(a) In order to properly plan the utilization of motor fuel tax funds each County Engineer or Superintendent of Highways, except for those in a county with a population of 185,000 or less, shall be required to develop and update a 20 year long-range highway transportation plan. The plan shall contain an estimate of revenues which will become available during that period and a statement of intention with respect to the construction, maintenance, and other related work to be done insofar as it is possible to make such estimates. In addition, the long-range plan shall show the location of existing county highways and the general corridors of future highways, the projected future traffic usage on each highway for a 20 year period, a tabulation showing the design standards and the geometric features associated with different levels of traffic usage, and a listing of the major improvements anticipated within 5 years of the date of each plan. A copy of the plan shall be filed with the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. A copy of the plan as it relates to each city over 5,000 population in the county shall be filed with the clerk of each municipality. The initial plan shall be on file with designated agencies by July 1, 1971, and shall be updated on an annual basis thereafter.

(b) Before the Superintendent of Highways of a county with a population of 2 million or more inhabitants may update the long-range highway transportation plan for that county, as annually required under subsection (a) of this Section, all of the following requirements must be met:

(1) At least 90 days before the plan is required to be updated under subsection (a) of this Section, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the county must submit the proposed updated plan to the Chairpersons of the Transportation Committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

(2) At least 90 days before the plan is required to be updated under subsection (a) of this Section, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the county must prepare and deliver a presentation on the proposed updated plan for the Transportation Committees in each chamber and address any questions that members of the committees might have about the proposed updated plan.

(3) At least 60 days before the plan is required to be updated under subsection (a) of this Section, the proposed updated plan must be approved in whole or rejected in whole by joint resolution of the General Assembly.

(c) If the requirements of subsection (b) are not satisfied, then no State moneys may be spent or appropriated on highway improvement projects identified in the proposed updated plan.

(Source: P.A. 85-853.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.