Bill Text: IL HB4489 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in an unincorporated area of a county that is located within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 50,000 (in addition to in or within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 1,000 people). Allows a county (in addition to a municipality) to opt out of bicycle and pedestrian way construction by passing a resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does not fit within its development plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-25 - Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 [HB4489 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4489-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4489 Introduced , by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/4-220
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in or within one mile of an urban area (rather than in or within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 1,000 people). Allows a county (in addition to a municipality) to opt out of bicycle and pedestrian way construction by passing a resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does not fit within its development plan.
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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 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
changing Section 4-220 as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/4-220)
Sec. 4-220. Bicycle and pedestrian ways.
(a) Bicycle and pedestrian ways shall be given full
consideration in the planning and development of
transportation facilities, including the incorporation of such
ways into State plans and programs.
(b) In or within one mile of an urban area a municipality
with a population of over 1,000 people, and subject to the
Department's option in subsection (e), the Department shall
establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in
conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other
change of any State transportation facility except:
(1) in pavement resurfacing projects that do not widen
the existing traveled way or do not provide stabilized
shoulders;
(2) where approved by the Secretary of Transportation
based upon documented safety issues, excessive cost, or
absence of need; or

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