Illinois House Bill 2846 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Department of Transportation (currently, the Regional Transportation Authority) shall develop, adopt, and implement system safety program standards and procedures meeting the requirements of the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. Limits liability. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make certain records of the Illinois Department of Transportation exempt from inspection and copying. Amends the Bi-State Transit Safety Act. Provides a repeal date of December 31, 2017 for that Act. Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that the Regional Transportation Authority shall comply with all safety requirements under specified federal law as required by the Department of Transportation. Provides that the Department of Transportation has rail transit safety oversight authority for MetroLink. Amends the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act making conforming changes. Effective immediately.

RTA-IDOT-FAST ACT

Rep. Margo McDermed [R]

Rep. Marcus Evans [D]

Rep. Latoya Greenwood [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2017-03-31	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-16	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. LaToya Greenwood
2017-03-09	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-09	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Margo McDermed
2017-02-24	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
2017-02-22	House	Assigned to Executive Committee
2017-02-09	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2017-02-09	House	First Reading
2017-02-09	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Margo McDermed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
20	2705	2705-300	Amended Code	Citation Text
20	2705	2705-615	New Code	See Bill Text
20	2705	49.18	Amended Code	Citation Text
45	111	100	New Code	See Bill Text
5	140	7.5	Amended Code	Citation Text
70	3605	9b	Amended Code	Citation Text
70	3615	2.11	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2846&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB2846.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB2846ham001.htm