Bill Text: IL HB5301 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Illinois Coordinate System Act of 2024. Creates the Illinois Coordinate System Committee. Provides that the Committee shall create, review, and revise the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. Requires the Committee to meet at the call of any designated member of the Committee. Requires the Committee to adopt an organizational structure as necessary for the fulfillment of its purpose. Specifies the members required to form the Committee. Requires the Committee to engage with interested stakeholders throughout the State representing local, regional, State, and federal agencies, professional associations, academic institutions, and private sector companies, enterprises, and businesses. Sets forth provisions concerning the purpose of the Act, definitions, and the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. Repeals the Illinois Coordinate System Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5301 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5301-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5301 Introduced , by Rep. Dagmara Avelar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
765 ILCS 225/Act rep.
Creates the Illinois Coordinate System Act of 2024. Creates the Illinois Coordinate System Committee. Provides that the Committee shall create, review, and revise the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. Requires the Committee to meet at the call of any designated member of the Committee. Requires the Committee to adopt an organizational structure as necessary for the fulfillment of its purpose. Specifies the members required to form the Committee. Requires the Committee to engage with interested stakeholders throughout the State representing local, regional, State, and federal agencies, professional associations, academic institutions, and private sector companies, enterprises, and businesses. Sets forth provisions concerning the purpose of the Act, definitions, and the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. Repeals the Illinois Coordinate System Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Illinois Coordinate System Act of 2024.
Section 3. Purpose. The Illinois Coordinate System Act is
established for the purpose of compiling accessible, accurate,
reliable, and repeatable data for use in the Illinois
Coordinate System and the Illinois State Plane Coordinate
System. Highly accurate geospatial data used by disciplines,
including the engineering, surveying, construction,
cartography, and geographic information professions, advances
the development of public infrastructure, industry,
agriculture, and other facets of the economy.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Committee" means the Illinois Coordinate System
Committee.
"Illinois Coordinate System" means a collection of various
plane coordinate systems included in the guide for defining
and stating the position or location of points on the surface
of the earth within the State.
"Illinois State Plane Coordinate System" means a

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collection of various plane coordinate systems that have been
established by the United States Department of Commerce,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National
Ocean Service, National Geodetic Survey, and predecessor
agencies for defining and stating the position or location of
points on the surface of the earth within the State.
"Metadata" means naming the used geodetic reference frame
or datum; epoch or adjustment; unit of measurement; and
projection.
Section 10. Illinois Coordinate System Committee.
(a) The Illinois Coordinate System Committee is hereby
created. The Committee is created for the purpose of creating,
reviewing, and revising the Guide to the Illinois Coordinate
System. The Committee shall meet at the call of any designated
member of the Committee. The Committee shall adopt an
organizational structure as necessary for the fulfillment of
its purpose.
(b) The Committee shall consist of the following members:
(1) the Secretary of Transportation, or the
Secretary's designee, who shall serve as Chair;
(2) the Director of the Illinois Center for Geographic
Information, or the Director's designee;
(3) the Director of Natural Resources, or the
Director's designee;
(4) the Executive Director of the Illinois State Toll

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Highway Authority, or the Executive Director's designee;
(5) the Director of Agriculture, or the Director's
designee;
(6) one member of a statewide organization
representing land surveyors, appointed by the Governor;
and
(7) one member of a statewide organization made up of
professionals who work with geographic information
systems, appointed by the Governor.
(c) The Committee shall engage with interested
stakeholders throughout the State representing local,
regional, State, and federal agencies; professional
associations; academic institutions; and private sector
companies, enterprises, and businesses.
(d) The Committee shall create, review, and revise the
Guide to the Illinois Coordinate System. This Act shall not be
construed to prohibit the appropriate use of other datums,
geodetic reference networks or systems, or other coordinate
systems when made mathematically relatable to at least one
coordinate reference system outlined in the Guide to the
Illinois Coordinate System. The Guide to the Illinois
Coordinate System shall:
(1) define the various plan coordinate systems of the
Illinois Coordinate System;
(2) contain metadata to accompany the data from the
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Coordinate System, or from any other datum, network, or
system intended to be a part of a public record; and
(3) be made available to the public through the
Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, or other public
source approved by the Committee.