Bill Text: IL HB2938 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that in order to post a speed limit on a highway under its jurisdiction that is less than the limit prescribed in a provision of the Code concerning general speed restrictions, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall obtain approval from the General Assembly. Provides that the Authority shall not issue a regulation to change the speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway. Provides that beginning 6 months after the effective date of the bill, and except for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds, the Authority shall issue a regulation to change the speed limit on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction to the maximum speed limit authorized in the Code for highways under its jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2938 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB2938-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB2938 Introduced , by Rep. Peter Breen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-603 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that in order to post a speed limit on a highway under its jurisdiction that is less than the limit prescribed in a provision of the Code concerning general speed restrictions, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall obtain approval from the General Assembly. Provides that the Authority shall not issue a regulation to change the speed limit for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway. Provides that beginning 6 months after the effective date of the bill, and except for vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000 pounds, the Authority shall issue a regulation to change the speed limit on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction to the maximum speed limit authorized in the Code for highways under its jurisdiction.
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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 1. Legislative findings. The General Assembly
finds that the maximum speed limits for motor vehicles
prescribed in a provision concerning general speed
restrictions in the Illinois Vehicle Code are presumed to be
reasonable and safe maximum speed limits for all highways under
the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 11-603 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-603) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-603)
Sec. 11-603. Alteration of limits by Toll Highway
Authority.
(a) Whenever the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation concerning a toll highway under its
jurisdiction, that a maximum speed limit prescribed in Section
11-601 of this Chapter is greater or less than is reasonable or
safe with respect to conditions found to exist at any place or
along any part or zone of such highway, the Authority shall
determine and declare by regulation a reasonable and safe

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absolute maximum speed limit at such place or along such part
or zone, and the speed limit shall conform with the maximum
speed limit restrictions provided for in Section 11-601 of this
Code. A limit so determined and declared becomes effective, and
suspends the application of the limit prescribed in Section
11-601 of this Chapter, when (a) the Department concurs in
writing with the Authority's regulation, and (b) appropriate
signs giving notice of the limit are erected at such place or
along such part or zone of the highway, and (c) for a decrease
in a speed limit, the General Assembly approves the Authority's
regulation. The Authority shall not issue a regulation to
change the speed limit for vehicles of the second division
weighing more than 8,000 pounds that is more than 10 miles per
hour less than the maximum speed limit of that highway.
Electronic speed-detecting devices shall not be used within 500
feet beyond any such sign in the direction of travel; if so
used in violation hereof, evidence obtained thereby shall be
inadmissible in any prosecution for speeding.
(b) Beginning 6 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and except for
vehicles of the second division weighing more than 8,000
pounds, the Authority shall issue a regulation to change the
speed limit on any part of a highway under its jurisdiction to
the maximum speed limits under Section 11-601 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 98-511, eff. 1-1-14.)