Illinois Senate Bill 2009

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-02-06 - Referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Defines "leader follower attenuator truck" as a driverless vehicle that is led by a human-driven vehicle that controls its position, speed, and heading data to the driverless vehicle while maintaining a set gap distance and is be equipped with sensors that can detect obstacles to stop the driverless vehicle if necessary. Allows the Department of Transportation and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to use leader follower attenuator trucks on State highways to increase safety of workers in construction and maintenance zones.

LEADER FOLLOWER ATTENTUATORS

Sen. Javier Cervantes [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-06	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2025-02-06	Senate	First Reading
2025-02-06	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Javier L. Cervantes

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
625	5	1-136.8	New Code	See Bill Text
625	5	11-1433	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2009&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=161414&SessionID=114
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?LegDocId=201202&DocName=10400SB2009&DocNum=2009&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=161414&GAID=18&SessionID=114&SpecSess=&Session=