Bill Text: IL HR0992 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate the vehicle emissions testing program when the current contract expires on March 31, 2015.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HR0992 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0992-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, In 2013, over 107,000 vehicles were tested by | ||||||
| 3 | Illinois's emissions testing program; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, $16,000,000 was spent on administering Illinois's | ||||||
| 5 | emissions testing program by the Illinois
Environmental | ||||||
| 6 | Protection Agency and the Secretary of State and $14,000,000 on | ||||||
| 7 | a private contractor to conduct the testing, for a total of | ||||||
| 8 | $30,000,000 being spent in just 3 regions of the
State - | ||||||
| 9 | Chicago, the collar counties, and the Metro East St. Louis | ||||||
| 10 | area; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Illinois will spend an estimated total of | ||||||
| 12 | $240,000,000 to conduct vehicle emissions
testing throughout | ||||||
| 13 | the upcoming 8-year contract effective April 1, 2015; this | ||||||
| 14 | averages out to an estimated $280.00 per test in 2013 when
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| 15 | including the cost to administer and conduct the testing; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is | ||||||
| 17 | currently taking bids from private
contractors ready to sign an | ||||||
| 18 | 8-year contract with the State to conduct emissions testing
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| 19 | effective May 1, 2015; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, 20 other states have de-centralized their | ||||||
| 21 | emissions testing program; only 2 other
states, Washington and | ||||||
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| 1 | New Jersey, have similar testing programs such as Illinois; | ||||||
| 2 | therefore, be it
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| 3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 4 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 5 | we that we urge the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to | ||||||
| 6 | eliminate the
vehicle emissions testing program when the | ||||||
| 7 | current contract expires March 31, 2015; and be it further
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| 8 | RESOLVED, We also urge the Illinois Environmental | ||||||
| 9 | Protection Agency not to enter into a new
contract nor renew | ||||||
| 10 | any previous contract; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 12 | delivered to the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency | ||||||
| 13 | Director Lisa Bonnett, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, | ||||||
| 14 | and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.
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