Bill Text: IL HB4489 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in an unincorporated area of a county that is located within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 50,000 (in addition to in or within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 1,000 people). Allows a county (in addition to a municipality) to opt out of bicycle and pedestrian way construction by passing a resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does not fit within its development plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-25 - Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 [HB4489 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4489-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 4-220 as follows:
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| 6 | (605 ILCS 5/4-220) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 4-220. Bicycle and pedestrian ways. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) Bicycle and pedestrian ways shall be given full | ||||||
| 9 | consideration in the planning and development of | ||||||
| 10 | transportation facilities, including the incorporation of such | ||||||
| 11 | ways into State plans and programs. | ||||||
| 12 | (b) In or within one mile of a municipality with a | ||||||
| 13 | population of over 1,000 people or in an unincorporated area | ||||||
| 14 | of a county that is located within one mile of a municipality | ||||||
| 15 | with a population of 50,000 or more, and subject to the | ||||||
| 16 | Department's option in subsection (e), the Department shall | ||||||
| 17 | establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in | ||||||
| 18 | conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other | ||||||
| 19 | change of any State transportation facility except: | ||||||
| 20 | (1) in pavement resurfacing projects that do not widen | ||||||
| 21 | the existing traveled way or do not provide stabilized | ||||||
| 22 | shoulders; | ||||||
| 23 | (2) where approved by the Secretary of Transportation | ||||||
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