Bill Text: IL SB3407 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Toll Highway Act. Increases the number of directors of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority appointed by the Governor from 9 to 11. Provides that, of the 11 directors of the Authority appointed by the Governor, at least one shall be from Cook County, at least one shall be from Lake County, at least one shall be from DuPage County, at least one shall be from Will County, at least one shall be from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County, and at least one shall be from Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, or Lee County. Provides that no more than 6 (rather than 5) directors shall be from the same political party. Provides that, within 30 days of the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Governor shall appoint one director from Lake County and one director from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3407 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3407-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3407 Introduced 2/13/2020, by Sen. Melinda Bush SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 10/3 from Ch. 121, par. 100-3
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Increases the number of directors of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority appointed by the Governor from 9 to 11. Provides that, of the 11 directors of the Authority appointed by the Governor, at least one shall be from Cook County, at least one shall be from Lake County, at least one shall be from DuPage County, at least one shall be from Will County, at least one shall be from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County, and at least one shall be from Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, or Lee County. Provides that no more than 6 (rather than 5) directors shall be from the same political party. Provides that, within 30 days of the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Governor shall appoint one director from Lake County and one director from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County. Effective immediately.
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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 Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
Section 3 as follows:
(605 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-3)
Sec. 3. There is hereby created an Authority to be known as
The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, which is hereby
constituted an instrumentality and an administrative agency of
the State of Illinois. The said Authority shall consist of 13
11 directors; the Governor and the Secretary of the Department
of Transportation, ex officio, and 11 9 directors appointed by
the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, from
the State at large, which said directors and their successors
are hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act,
and to exercise the powers herein conferred. Of the 11 9
directors appointed by the Governor, at least one director
shall be from Cook County, at least one director shall be from
Lake County, at least one director shall be from DuPage County,
at least one director shall be from Will County, at least one
director shall be from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County, at
least one director shall be from Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, or Lee
County, and no more than 6 5 shall be members of the same

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political party. Within 30 days after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the Governor
shall appoint one director from Lake County and one director
from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
term of office of each director of the Authority serving on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General
Assembly, other than the Governor and the Secretary of the
Department of Transportation, is abolished and a vacancy in
each office is created on the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 100th General Assembly. The Governor shall appoint
directors to the Authority for the vacancies created under this
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly by February 28,
2019. Directors whose terms are abolished under this amendatory
Act of the 100th General Assembly shall be eligible for
reappointment.
Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term in the
same manner as original appointments. All appointments shall be
in writing and filed with the Secretary of State as a public
record. It is the intention of this section that the Governor's
appointments shall be made with due consideration to the
location of proposed toll highway routes so that maximum
geographic representation from the areas served by said toll
highway routes may be accomplished insofar as practicable. The
said Authority shall have the power to contract and be
contracted with, to acquire, hold and convey personal and real

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property or any interest therein including rights of way,
franchises and easements; to have and use a common seal, and to
alter the same at will; to make and establish resolutions,
by-laws, rules, rates and regulations, and to alter or repeal
the same as the Authority shall deem necessary and expedient
for the construction, operation, relocation, regulation and
maintenance of a system of toll highways within and through the
State of Illinois.
Appointment of the additional directors provided for by
this amendatory Act of 1980 shall be made within 30 days after
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1980.
(Source: P.A. 100-1180, eff. 2-28-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.