Bill Text: IL HB3302 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Regional Planning Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3302 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3302-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB3302 Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 1707/15
Amends the Regional Planning Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Regional Planning Act is amended by changing
Section 15 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1707/15)
Sec. 15. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning;
structure.
(a) The The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is
established as a political subdivision, body politic, and
municipal corporation. The Board shall be responsible for
developing and adopting a funding and implementation strategy
for an integrated land use and transportation planning process
for the northeastern Illinois region.
(b) (Blank.)
(c) The Board shall consist of 15 voting members as
follows:
(1) One member from DuPage County appointed
cooperatively by the mayors of DuPage County and the chief
elected county official of DuPage County.
(2) One member representing both Kane and Kendall
Counties appointed cooperatively by the mayors of Kane
County and Kendall County and the chief elected county

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officials of Kane County and Kendall County.
(3) One member from Lake County appointed
cooperatively by the mayors of Lake County and the chief
elected county official of Lake County.
(4) One member from McHenry County appointed
cooperatively by the mayors of McHenry County and the chief
elected county official of McHenry County.
(5) One member from Will County appointed
cooperatively by the mayors of Will County and the chief
elected county official of Will County.
(6) Five members from the City of Chicago appointed by
the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
(7) One member from that portion of Cook County outside
of the City of Chicago appointed by the President of the
Cook County Board of Commissioners.
(8) Four members from that portion of Cook County
outside of the City of Chicago appointed, with the consent
of the President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners,
as follows:
(i) One by the mayors representing those
communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
of Chicago and north of Devon Avenue.
(ii) One by the mayors representing those
communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
of Chicago, south of Devon Avenue, and north of
Interstate 55, and in addition the Village of Summit.

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(iii) One by the mayors representing those
communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
of Chicago, south of Interstate 55, and west of
Interstate 57, excluding the communities of Summit,
Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, Midlothian, Oak Forest, and
Tinley Park.
(iv) One by the mayors representing those
communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
of Chicago and east of Interstate 57, and, in addition,
the communities of Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins,
Midlothian, Oak Forest, and Tinley Park.
The terms of the members initially appointed to the Board shall
begin within 60 days after this Act takes effect.
(d) The CMAP Board may appoint non-voting members of the
Board.
(e) (1) The CMAP Board shall create a Wastewater Committee
with the responsibility of recommending directly to the
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) the
appropriateness of proposed requests for modifications and
amendments to the established boundaries of wastewater
facility planning areas, requests for the creation of new
wastewater facility planning areas, requests for the
elimination of existing wastewater facility planning areas,
requests for new or expanded sewage treatment facilities, or
any other amendments to the State of Illinois Water Quality
Management Plan required under the federal Clean Water Act. The

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Chairmanship of the Wastewater Committee shall rotate every 24
months between the individuals described in subsections
(e)(2)(iv) and (e)(2)(v) with the individual identified in
subsection (e)(2)(v) serving as chairman for the initial
24-month period commencing on the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
(2) The Wastewater Committee shall consist of 5 members
of the CMAP Board designated as follows:
(i) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be
one of the CMAP Board members designated in subsection
(c)(1) through (c)(5).
(ii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
be one of the CMAP Board members designated in
subsection (c)(6).
(iii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
be one of the CMAP Board members designated in
subsection (c)(7) or (c)(8).
(iv) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
be a person appointed by the President of the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater
Chicago (and who does not need to serve on the CMAP
Board).
(v) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be
a person appointed by the President of the largest
statewide association of wastewater agencies (and who
does not need to serve on the CMAP Board).

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(3) Terms of the members of the Wastewater Committee
shall be consistent with those identified in Section 25,
except that the term of the member of the Wastewater
Committee appointed by the President of the Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago shall expire
on July 1, 2009, and the term of the member of the
Wastewater Committee appointed by the President of the
largest statewide association of wastewater agencies shall
expire on July 1, 2009.
(f) With the exception of matters considered and
recommended by the Wastewater Committee directly to the IEPA,
which shall require only a concurrence of a simple majority of
the Wastewater Committee members in office, concurrence of
four-fifths of the Board members in office is necessary for the
Board to take any action.
(Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.)