Bill Text: IL HB5187 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill. Eliminates the non-voting member of the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and Regional Planning Commission appointed by the Governor. Makes technical conforming changes.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Enrolled) 2026-06-26 - Sent to the Governor [HB5187 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5187-Enrolled.html

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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 Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and
Regional Planning Act is amended by changing Sections 6, 9,
10, 12, 14, 15, and 30 and by adding Section 6.5 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1710/6) (from Ch. 85, par. 1156)
Sec. 6. (a) Commissioners appointed by the Governor prior
to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975 shall
serve the balance of 6-year terms to which they were
appointed. Subsequent to the effective date of the amendatory
Act of 1975, the Governor shall make no appointments of
Commissioners to new terms or to fill vacancies until such
time as the total number of Commissioners so appointed by the
Governor and then holding valid terms on the Commission shall
be reduced by expiration of terms, or attrition, or otherwise,
to 7 in number. Thereafter, Commissioners shall be appointed
by the Governor to fill terms expiring in such manner as to
maintain the number of Governor-appointed Commissioners at 8
in number. Commissioners so appointed after the effective date
of the amendatory Act of 1975 shall serve for terms of 4 years
and until successors are appointed and qualified, such terms
to commence on October 1 of the year in which such

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Commissioners are each first appointed, provided that initial
appointments of Commissioners by the Governor pursuant to
revisions enacted by the amendatory Act of 1975 shall be made
for terms of one year, 2 years, 3 years, or 4 years (as the
Governor shall determine in the case of each appointment) in
order to establish a pattern of staggered terms of office in
which the terms of 2 Governor-appointed Commissioners expire
in each calendar year.
Commissioners appointed or selected by means other than
appointment by the Governor or by virtue of holding an
elective or appointive position separate from the Commission
shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing or selecting
agency, provided they remain qualified for service as a
Commissioner, and provided further that each person or
authority making such an appointment shall review the
advisability of changing the person so appointed or selected
at least every 2 years.
If a vacancy occurs by death, resignation or otherwise
among Governor-appointed Commissioners, the Governor shall
fill the vacancy by an appointment for the unexpired term,
subject to the prohibition set forth above precluding the
filling of vacancies, after the effective date of the
amendatory Act of 1975, until the number of Governor-appointed
Commissioners is reduced to 7 in number. In the event of a
vacancy by reason of death, resignation or otherwise among
Commissioners selected by means other than appointment by the

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Governor or by virtue of holding an elective or appointive
position separate from the Commission, the proper selecting
authority shall make a replacement appointment within a
reasonable time period not exceeding 90 days.
(b) Upon appointment of each new member of the Commission
under Section 6.5, the terms of the members appointed under
this Section shall expire.
(Source: P.A. 79-477.)
(70 ILCS 1710/6.5 new)
Sec. 6.5. Commission membership.
(a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 104th General Assembly, the Commission shall consist of
33 commissioners, 27 of whom shall be voting members and 6 of
whom shall be nonvoting, at-large members.
(1) The 27 voting members of the Commission shall
consist of the following commissioners:
(A) the chairman of the Bond County Board, the
chairman of the Clinton County Board, the chairman of
the Monroe County Board, the chairman of the Randolph
County Board, the chairman of the Washington County
Board, the chairman of the Madison County Board, and
the chairman of the St. Clair County Board shall each
serve as a commissioner during their respective terms
of office;
(B) the chairman of the Bond County Board, the

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chairman of the Clinton County Board, the chairman of
the Monroe County Board, the chairman of the Randolph
County Board, and the chairman of the Washington
County Board shall each appoint 2 commissioners; the
commissioners appointed under this subparagraph (B)
shall be either elected or appointed officials of the
county board or a unit of local government in the
county that appointed them;
(C) the chairman of the Madison County Board and
the chairman of the St. Clair County Board shall each
appoint 3 commissioners; the commissioners appointed
under this subparagraph (C) shall be either elected or
appointed officials of the county board or a unit of
local government in the county that appointed them;
(D) the board of the America's Central Port
District and the board of Kaskaskia Regional Port
District shall each appoint one commissioner;
(E) the Southwestern Illinois Council of Mayors
shall appoint one commissioner from among its members;
and
(F) the board of the Metro East Sanitary District
shall appoint one commissioner from among its members.
(2) The 6 nonvoting at-large members of the Commission
shall reside in the Metropolitan and Regional Counties
Area and be appointed as follows:
(A) one member appointed by the Director of

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Commerce and Economic Opportunity;
(B) one member appointed by the executive
committee of the Southwestern Illinois Leadership
Council;
(C) one member appointed by the Board of
Commissioners of the Bi-State Development Agency;
(D) one member appointed by the Board of Trustees
of the Madison County Transit District;
(E) one member appointed by the Board of Trustees
of the St. Clair County Transit District; and
(F) one member appointed by the Board of Directors
of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments.
(b) Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C),
(D), (E), and (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and
Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (A), (B), (C),
(D), and (E) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) shall serve
4-year terms. Persons appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C),
(D), (E), and (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and
Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (A), (B), (C),
(D), and (E) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) may be
reappointed.
(c) If a vacancy occurs by reason of death, resignation,
or otherwise among the commissioners, then the authority that
appointed the commissioner shall appoint a replacement within
90 days.
(d) Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C),

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(D), (E), or (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and
paragraph (2) of subsection (a) shall be residents of the
Metropolitan and Regional Counties Area and shall meet all
other required qualifications as required in this Act.
(70 ILCS 1710/9) (from Ch. 85, par. 1159)
Sec. 9. At its annual meeting before July first of each
year the Commission shall elect an executive committee of 9 26
members from among its membership. The Executive Committee so
elected each year shall serve in office for the period July 1
through June 30 following their election. The Executive
Committee so elected shall be vested with authority to act on
behalf of the Commission and to transact all business of the
Commission between meetings of the Commission as specified in
Section 10 of this Act. The executive committee shall
establish a schedule of regular meetings each year. At its
first regular meeting after election each year, the executive
committee shall elect from among its membership the following
officers of the Commission: a president, a vice president, a
secretary, and a treasurer. The newly elected Executive
Committee and officers shall assume office as of July 1 of each
year.
The vice-president shall act as president during the
absence or disability of the president and in case of
resignation or death of the president. The secretary and
treasurer shall perform duties as defined in bylaws of the

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Commission as may be adopted from time to time by the
Commission.
(Source: P.A. 82-944.)
(70 ILCS 1710/10) (from Ch. 85, par. 1160)
Sec. 10. Regular meetings of the Commission shall be held
at least once in each calendar year, the time and place of such
meetings to be fixed by rule of the Commission.
Special meetings of the Commission may be called by the
president or by any 5 commissioners 8 Commissioners. A written
notice of the time and place of any special meeting shall be
mailed or sent electronically to all commissioners
Commissioners by the secretary at least 7 days prior to the
date fixed for the meeting, except that if the time and place
of a special meeting is fixed at a regular meeting at which all
commissioners Commissioners are present, no such written
notice is required.
All meetings of the Commission shall be open to the
public.
(Source: P.A. 82-944.)
(70 ILCS 1710/12) (from Ch. 85, par. 1162)
Sec. 12. A majority of the voting commissioners
Commissioners duly appointed at each time quorum is at issue
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of
the Commission and the concurrence of a majority of the voting

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commissioners Commissioners present at any meeting where
business is conducted is necessary for the Commission to take
any action authorized by this Act, except that the executive
committee, selected as hereinbefore provided, shall exercise
such powers and authority of the Commission as are delegated
to such committee by the bylaws and regulations adopted by the
Commission or as is authorized the executive committee by
Section 9 of this Act. Any voting commissioner Commissioner
shall have authority and it shall be valid for him or her to
vote by written proxy at any meeting of the Executive
Committee or other committees of the Commission on which the
commissioner such Commissioner may serve, provided that
proxies shall never be valid at any meeting of the full
Commission and, provided further that no voting commissioner
Commissioner shall be privileged to vote by written proxy at
more than 2 successive meetings of the Executive Committee or
other committees of the Commission on which the commissioner
such Commissioner may serve.
(Source: P.A. 79-477.)
(70 ILCS 1710/14) (from Ch. 85, par. 1164)
Sec. 14. All funds received for the use of the Commission
shall be deposited in the name of the Commission by the
treasurer, in a depository approved by the Commission and
shall be withdrawn or paid out only by check, draft,
electronic funds transfer, automated clearing house

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transaction, wire transfer, or direct online payment upon the
depository authorized by any 2 of the commissioners or
employees designated by the Commission to act as signatories
to withdraw funds of the Commission. Funds appropriated to the
Commission by the General Assembly shall not be expended
except in accordance with a formal planning program and budget
reviewed and approved by the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity. All funds received for the use of the
Commission shall be deposited in the name of the Commission by
the treasurer, in a depository approved by the Commission and
shall be withdrawn or paid out only by check or draft upon the
depository signed by any two of such Commissioners or
employees of the Commission as may be designated for this
purpose by the Commission, provided further that funds
appropriated to the Commission by the General Assembly shall
not be expended except in accordance with a formal planning
program and budget which has been reviewed and approved by the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. All persons
so designated shall execute bonds with corporate sureties
approved by the Commission in the same manner and amount as
required of the treasurer, and in such amount as determined by
the Commission.
All commissioners and employees designated by the
Commission to act as signatories to withdraw funds of the
Commission shall execute bonds with corporate sureties
approved by the Commission in the same manner and amount as

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required of the treasurer, and in such amount as determined by
the Commission. In case any person whose signature appears
upon any check or draft, issued pursuant to this Act, ceases
(after attaching his signature) to hold his office before the
delivery thereof to the payee, his signature nevertheless
shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes with the same
effect as if he had remained in office until delivery thereof.
(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
(70 ILCS 1710/15) (from Ch. 85, par. 1165)
Sec. 15. The Commission shall appoint an executive
director, who shall be the chief of staff of the Commission,
and fix the executive director's his compensation. The
executive director shall be a person qualified in the fields
of municipal and regional planning or public or business
administration.
With the approval of the Commission, the executive
director may appoint a deputy director to assist the executive
director him in the performance of the executive director's
his duties and may, with such approval, contract in the name of
the Commission for such personal and contractual services,
supplies and commodities as may be necessary.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 1619.)
(70 ILCS 1710/30) (from Ch. 85, par. 1180)
Sec. 30. Prior to the adoption of comprehensive and

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functional plans for the development of the Metropolitan and
Regional Counties Area, the Commission shall hold a public
hearing thereon.
Notice of the time, date and place set by the Commission
for the public hearing shall be published in a newspaper
having a general circulation within the area of operation of
the Commission at least 14 days prior to the date set for the
hearing, which notice shall contain a short explanation of the
purpose of the hearing.
At such hearing the president of the Commission or some
commissioner Commissioner designated by the president of the
Commission him shall preside.
Such hearing may be continued from time to time as may be
deemed necessary by the Commission.
(Source: P.A. 78-924.)
(70 ILCS 1710/5 rep.)
Section 10. The Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and
Regional Planning Act is amended by repealing Section 5.