Bill Amendment: IL HB0879 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: TRANSPORTATION-TECH

Status: 2024-04-19 - House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0879 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB0879-House_Amendment_002.html

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Rep. Jay Hoffman

Filed: 5/11/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 879
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 879 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
changing Section 8-101 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/8-101) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 8-101)
Sec. 8-101. Proof of financial responsibility; persons who
operate motor vehicles in transportation of passengers for
hire.
(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to
operate any motor vehicle along or upon any public street or
highway in any incorporated city, town, or village in this
State for the carriage of passengers for hire, accepting and
discharging all such persons as may offer themselves for
transportation unless such person, firm, or corporation has
given, and there is in full force and effect and on file with

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the Secretary of State of Illinois, proof of financial
responsibility provided in this Act.
(b) In addition this Section shall also apply to persons,
firms, or corporations who are in the business of providing
transportation services for minors to or from educational or
recreational facilities, except that this Section shall not
apply to public utilities subject to regulation under the
Public Utilities Act or to school buses which are operated by
public or parochial schools and are engaged solely in the
transportation of the pupils who attend such schools.
(c) This Section also applies to a contract carrier
transporting employees in the course of their employment on a
highway of this State in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or
fewer passengers. As part of proof of financial
responsibility, a contract carrier transporting employees,
including, but not limited to, railroad employees, in the
course of their employment is required to verify hit and run
and uninsured motor vehicle coverage, as provided in Section
143a of the Illinois Insurance Code, and underinsured motor
vehicle coverage, as provided in Section 143a-2 of the
Illinois Insurance Code, in a total amount of not less than
$250,000 per passenger, except that beginning on January 1,
2017 the total amount shall be not less than $500,000 per
passenger. Each rail carrier that contracts with a contract
carrier for the transportation of its employees in the course
of their employment shall verify that the contract carrier has

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the minimum insurance coverage required under this subsection
(c). If an insurance policy is issued and it does not comply
with the provisions of this Section, the policy shall be
reformed and amended to comply with the requirements set forth
herein for hit and run, uninsured, and underinsured motor
vehicle coverage.
(d) This Section shall not apply to any person
participating in a ridesharing arrangement or operating a
commuter van, but only during the performance of activities
authorized by the Ridesharing Arrangements Act.
(e) If the person operating such motor vehicle is not the
owner, then proof of financial responsibility filed hereunder
must provide that the owner is primarily liable.
(Source: P.A. 100-458, eff. 1-1-18; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)".