Bill Amendment: IL HB4803 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

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Bill Title: ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION SITING

Status: 2026-04-17 - House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4803 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4803-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Dave Vella

Filed: 3/13/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4803
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4803 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Electric Transmission Colocation and Siting Priority Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Section:
"Authority" means the Illinois State Toll Highway
Authority.
"Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of
Transportation.
"Electric transmission facility" means an electrical
transmission system designed and constructed with the
capability of being safely and reliably energized at 69
kilovolts or more, including transmission lines, transmission
towers, conductors, insulators, foundations, grounding

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systems, access roads, and all associated transmission
facilities, including transmission substations. "Electric
transmission facility" does not include a project located on
the electric generating side of a facility's point of
interconnection.
"Highway" has the meaning given to that term in Section
2-202 of the Illinois Highway Code.
"High-voltage transmission line" means any line for the
transmission of electric current with a nominal voltage of at
least 115 kilovolts that is colocated longitudinally in a
public right-of-way or a corridor, including all supporting
structures and accessories necessary for such line.
"High-voltage transmission line" does not include any line for
the transmission of electric current that crosses through but
is not wholly contained within a State highway right-of-way.
"Public utility" has the meaning given to that term in
Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act.
"Public utility corridor" means the land, or interest
therein, acquired for or devoted to a public utility to place
and maintain infrastructure for electricity, water, gas, or
Internet service.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation.
"State highway corridor" means the land, or interest
therein, acquired for or devoted to a State highway.
"Transmission developer" means any company that (i) has
been issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity

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in this State that authorizes the company to own and operate an
electric transmission line and (ii) is a State electric
utility, as defined in Section 16-102 of the Public Utilities
Act, or an affiliate of a State electric utility through a
common ownership structure.
Section 10. Electric transmission siting priorities.
(a) In the siting of new electric transmission facilities,
including high-voltage transmission lines, available corridors
shall be considered in the following order of priority:
(1) Existing public utility corridors.
(2) State highway corridors.
(3) New corridors.
(b) Consideration of the corridors listed in subsection
(a) shall be done, to the greatest extent possible, in a manner
that accounts for economic and engineering considerations, the
reliability of the electric system, and the protection of the
environment. The order of priority under subsection (a) shall
not apply to projects that have been sited on or before the
effective date of this Act.
Section 15. High-voltage transmission line colocation
requests.
(a) A public utility or transmission developer may
construct, place, or maintain a high-voltage transmission line
on a public right-of-way or along a highway if (i) the public

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utility or transmission developer submits to the Secretary or
the Authority a colocation request for the high-voltage
transmission line and (ii) the Secretary or the Authority
reviews and approves the colocation request.
(b) The Secretary or the Authority may deny a colocation
request under this Section if the Secretary or the Authority
determines that the construction, placement, or maintenance of
a high-voltage transmission line on a public right-of-way or
along a highway would endanger public safety or would
interfere with the proper function of the highway.
(c) If the Secretary or the Authority denies a colocation
request under this Section, the Secretary or the Authority
shall submit the reasons for the denial to the Director of the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Executive Director of the
Commission, and the Director of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity within 90 days after the issuance of the denial.
Section 20. Consultation and constructability report.
(a) A public utility or transmission developer may submit
a written request to the Department or the Authority for an
evaluation of the corridors described in subsection (a) of
Section 10 for possible locations for a high-voltage
transmission line. Within 30 days after receipt of a written
request under this subsection (a), the Secretary or the
Authority shall assign a project coordinator to the request. A
project coordinator, upon assignment to a request, shall begin

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the evaluation in coordination with the applicable public
utility or transmission developer.
(b) The Department or the Authority shall inform a public
utility or transmission developer about any of the
Department's or the Authority's current plans or projects that
could impact the public utility's or transmission developer's
potential construction or placement of a high-voltage
transmission line within a corridor.
(c) After an evaluation under subsection (a) identifies an
acceptable location within a corridor, a public utility or
transmission developer, in consultation with the Department or
the Authority, shall develop a constructability report. The
constructability report shall include (i) the terms and
conditions for the siting of the high-voltage transmission
line and (ii) an agreed-upon time frame during which the
Department or the Authority may not request the relocation of
the high-voltage transmission line. The Department or the
Authority shall issue a permit to the public utility or
transmission developer for the use of a public right-of-way
within the corridor for the siting of a high-voltage
transmission line only after a constructability report is
approved by both the Department or the Authority and the
public utility or transmission developer.
(d) A public utility or transmission developer and the
Department or the Authority shall follow the terms and
conditions of the approved constructability report during the

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planning and approval process for the siting of a high-voltage
transmission line. If the Department or the Authority requires
the relocation of a high-voltage transmission line on a public
right-of-way by a specific date, the Department or the
Authority shall give the applicable public utility or
transmission developer notice of the required relocation at
the time the Department or the Authority becomes aware of the
need for the relocation.
Section 25. Project labor agreements. Electric
transmission facilities constructed or placed on a public
right-of-way or along a highway in accordance with this Act
shall be built by general contractors who have entered into a
project labor agreement prior to construction.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".