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1		AN ACT concerning transportation.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		Section 5. The Public-Private Agreements for the South
5		Suburban Airport Act is amended by changing Sections 2-5,
6		2-10, and 2-25 as follows:
7		(620 ILCS 75/2-5)
8		Sec. 2-5. Legislative findings.
9		(a) Providing facilities for air travel and domestic and
10		global freight cargo transfer shipment to and from the State
11		of Illinois through the South Suburban Airport is essential
12		for the health and welfare of the people of the State of
13		Illinois and economic development and well-being of the
14		Southland region and the State of Illinois.
15		(b) Airport development has significant regional impacts
16		with regard to economic development, public infrastructure
17		requirements, traffic, noise, and other concerns.
18		(c) The South Suburban Airport will promote development
19		and investment in the State of Illinois and serve as a critical
20		transportation hub in the region.
21		(d) Existing requirements of procurement and financing of
22		airports by the Department impose limitations on the methods
23		by which airports may be developed and operated within the

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1		State.
2		(e) Public-private agreements between the State of
3		Illinois and one or more private entities to develop, finance,
4		construct, manage, operate, maintain, or any combination
5		thereof, the South Suburban Airport have the potential of
6		maximizing value and benefit to the People of the State of
7		Illinois and the public at large.
8		(f) Public-private agreements may enable the South
9		Suburban Airport to be developed, financed, constructed,
10		managed, operated, and maintained in an entrepreneurial and
11		business-like manner.
12		(g) In the event that the State of Illinois enters into one
13		or more public-private agreements to develop, finance,
14		construct, manage, operate, or maintain the South Suburban
15		Airport, the private parties to the agreements should be
16		accountable to the People of Illinois through a comprehensive
17		system of oversight, regulation, auditing, and reporting.
18		(h) It is the intent of this Act to use Illinois design
19		professionals, construction companies, and workers to the
20		greatest extent permitted by law by offering them the right to
21		compete for this work.
22		(i) It is the intent of this Act for the Department to
23		collaborate with affected municipalities, counties, citizens,
24		elected officials, interest groups, and other stakeholders to
25		foster economic development around the South Suburban Airport
26		and the region, and to insure that the communities near the

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1		South Suburban Airport have an ongoing opportunity to provide
2		input on the development and operation of the South Suburban
3		Airport.
4		(Source: P.A. 98-109, eff. 7-25-13.)
5		(620 ILCS 75/2-10)
6		Sec. 2-10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
7		"Agreement" means a public-private agreement.
8		"Airport" means a facility for all types of air service,
9		including, without limitation, landing fields, taxiways,
10		aprons, runways, runway clear areas, heliports, hangars,
11		aircraft service facilities, approaches, navigational aids,
12		air traffic control facilities, terminals, inspection
13		facilities, security facilities, parking, internal transit
14		facilities, fueling facilities, cargo handling facilities,
15		concessions, rapid transit and roadway access, land and
16		interests in land, public waters, submerged land under public
17		waters and reclaimed land located on previously submerged land
18		under public waters, and all other property and appurtenances
19		necessary or useful for development, ownership, and operation
20		of any such facilities. "Airport" includes commercial or
21		industrial facilities related to the functioning of the
22		airport or to providing services to users of the airport.
23		"Cargo-oriented development" means the development of
24		places that are both multimodal nodes of freight
25		transportation and centers of employment in logistics and

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1		manufacturing businesses.
2		"Contractor" means a person that has been selected to
3		enter or has entered into a public-private agreement with the
4		Department on behalf of the State for the development,
5		financing, construction, management, or operation of the South
6		Suburban Airport under this Act.
7		"Department" means the Illinois Department of
8		Transportation.
9		"Inaugural airport" means all airport facilities,
10		equipment, property, and appurtenances necessary or useful to
11		the development and operation of the South Suburban Airport
12		that are constructed, developed, installed, or acquired as of
13		the commencement of public operations of the South Suburban
14		Airport.
15		"Inaugural airport boundary" means the property limits of
16		the inaugural airport as determined by the Department, as may
17		be adjusted and reconfigured from time to time.
18		"Maintain" or "maintenance" includes ordinary maintenance,
19		repair, rehabilitation, capital maintenance, maintenance
20		replacement, and any other categories of maintenance that may
21		be designated by the Department.
22		"Metropolitan planning organization" means a metropolitan
23		planning organization designated under 23 U.S.C. Section 134.
24		"Offeror" means a person that responds to a request for
25		proposals under this Act.
26		"Operate" or "operation" means to do one or more of the

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1		following: maintain, improve, equip, modify, or otherwise
2		operate.
3		"Person" means any individual, firm, association, joint
4		venture, partnership, estate, trust, syndicate, fiduciary,
5		corporation, or any other legal entity, group, or combination
6		thereof.
7		"Public-private agreement" means an agreement or contract
8		between the Department on behalf of the State and all
9		schedules, exhibits, and attachments thereto, entered into
10		pursuant to a competitive request for proposals process
11		governed by this Act, for the development, financing,
12		construction, management, or operation of the South Suburban
13		Airport under this Act.
14		"Revenues" means all revenues, including any combination
15		of, but not limited to: income; user fees; earnings; interest;
16		lease payments; allocations; moneys from the federal
17		government, the State, and units of local government,
18		including but not limited to federal, State, and local
19		appropriations, grants, loans, lines of credit, and credit
20		guarantees; bond proceeds; equity investments; service
21		payments; or other receipts arising out of or in connection
22		with the financing, development, construction, management, or
23		operation of the South Suburban Airport.
24		"State" means the State of Illinois.
25		"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Illinois Department
26		of Transportation.

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1		"South Suburban Airport" means the airport to be developed
2		on a site located in Will County and approved by the Federal
3		Aviation Administration in the Record of Decision for Tier 1:
4		FAA Site Approval And Land Acquisition By The State Of
5		Illinois, Proposed South Suburban Airport, Will County,
6		Illinois, dated July 2002, and all property within the
7		inaugural airport boundary and the ultimate airport boundary.
8		"Ultimate airport boundary" means the development and
9		property limits of the South Suburban Airport beyond the
10		inaugural airport boundary as determined by the Department, as
11		may be adjusted and reconfigured from time to time.
12		"Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to
13		that term in Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of the
14		State of Illinois, and, for purposes of this Act, includes
15		school districts.
16		"User fees" means the rates, fees, or other charges
17		imposed by the State or the contractor for use of all or a
18		portion of the South Suburban Airport under a public-private
19		agreement.
20		(Source: P.A. 98-109, eff. 7-25-13.)
21		(620 ILCS 75/2-25)
22		Sec. 2-25. Prequalification to enter into public-private
23		agreements. The Department shall may establish a process for
24		prequalification of offerors. The If the Department creates a
25		prequalification process, it shall: (i) provide a public

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1		notice of the prequalification at least 30 days before the
2		date on which applications are due; (ii) set forth
3		requirements and evaluation criteria in order to become
4		prequalified; (iii) determine which offerors that have
5		submitted prequalification applications, if any, meet the
6		requirements and evaluation criteria; and (iv) allow only
7		those offerors that have been prequalified to respond to the
8		request for proposals.
9		The Department shall commence the prequalification process
10		within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory
11		Act of the 103rd General Assembly.
12		(Source: P.A. 98-109, eff. 7-25-13.)