Bill Text: IL SB0198 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a county board of any county, any township, or any municipality may use motor fuel tax funds allotted to it for the operation costs of any public transportation service, for capital improvements designed to improve or enhance pedestrian, bicycle, or transit mobility, or for infrastructure used to support publicly or privately owned electric vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0198 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0198-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB0198 Introduced 1/30/2019, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/5-701.18 new
605 ILCS 5/6-701.10 new
605 ILCS 5/7-202.15 from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.15
605 ILCS 5/7-202.23 new
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a county board of any county, any township, or any municipality may use motor fuel tax funds allotted to it for the operation costs of any public transportation service, for capital improvements designed to improve or enhance pedestrian, bicycle, or transit mobility, or for infrastructure used to support publicly or privately owned electric vehicles.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 7-202.15 and by adding Sections 5-701.18, 6-701.10, and
7-202.23 as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/5-701.18 new)
Sec. 5-701.18. Transportation services; mobility; electric
vehicles. The county board of any county may also use motor
fuel tax funds allotted to it for the operation costs of any
public transportation service operated in partnership with a
local transit agency or a private provider and which is
directed, contracted, or otherwise approved by the county or
for any capital improvements designed to improve or enhance
pedestrian, bicycle, or transit mobility. In addition, the
county board of any county may use motor fuel tax funds
allotted to it for infrastructure used to support publicly or
privately owned electric vehicles.
(605 ILCS 5/6-701.10 new)
Sec. 6-701.10. Transportation services; mobility; electric
vehicles. Any township may also use motor fuel tax funds
allotted to it for the operation costs of any public

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transportation service operated in partnership with a local
transit agency or a private provider and which is directed,
contracted, or otherwise approved by the township or for any
capital improvements designed to improve or enhance
pedestrian, bicycle, or transit mobility. In addition, any
township may use motor fuel tax funds allotted to it for
infrastructure used to support publicly or privately owned
electric vehicles.
(605 ILCS 5/7-202.15) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-202.15)
Sec. 7-202.15. The construction, maintenance, or repair of
sidewalks or other pedestrian paths located within the right of
way of any street in the municipality, or any other capital
improvements designed to improve or enhance pedestrian,
bicycle, or transit mobility.
(Source: P.A. 88-580, eff. 1-1-95.)
(605 ILCS 5/7-202.23 new)
Sec. 7-202.23. Transportation services; electric vehicles.
Subject to Section 7-203 of this Code, any municipality may, by
ordinance, use motor fuel tax funds allotted to it for the
operation costs of any public transportation service operated
in partnership with a local transit agency or a private
provider and which is directed, contracted, or otherwise
approved by the municipality or for infrastructure used to
support publicly or privately owned electric vehicles.