Bill Text: IL SB2477 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency may not enter into new contracts or renew any contract previously made with one or more responsible parties to construct and operate official inspection stations, provide and maintain approved test equipment, administer tests, certify results, issue emission inspection stickers or certificates, maintain records, train personnel, provide information to the public concerning the program, or otherwise. Repeals the Section concerning such contracts on July 1, 2024. Provides that any facility that performs maintenance or repair work on motor vehicles as a routine part of its business may apply to the Agency for certification as an official inspection station. Provides that the Agency shall authorize as an official inspection station any applicant that meets specific criteria.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2477 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2477-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2477 Introduced 1/22/2020, by Sen. Dan McConchie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/13C-45
625 ILCS 5/13C-45.5 new
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency may not enter into new contracts or renew any contract previously made with one or more responsible parties to construct and operate official inspection stations, provide and maintain approved test equipment, administer tests, certify results, issue emission inspection stickers or certificates, maintain records, train personnel, provide information to the public concerning the program, or otherwise. Repeals the Section concerning such contracts on July 1, 2024. Provides that any facility that performs maintenance or repair work on motor vehicles as a routine part of its business may apply to the Agency for certification as an official inspection station. Provides that the Agency shall authorize as an official inspection station any applicant that meets specific criteria.
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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 1. Legislative intent. The purpose of this Act is
to decentralize emissions testing in this State in order to
reduce the financial burden on taxpayers. In 2013, over 107,000
vehicles were tested in an emissions testing program at a cost
of $30 million. Currently, the emissions program is conducted
by a private contractor. It is not the intent of the General
Assembly to interfere with any current contract, but it is the
intent of the General Assembly to prohibit the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency from entering into a new
contract or renewing a previous contract that would bind the
State to a single private contractor for the purpose of
expending State funds for emissions testing. It is the intent
of the General Assembly to use competition to reduce the
financial impact of the emissions testing program upon the
expiration of any current contract.
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 13C-45 and by adding Section 13C-45.5 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/13C-45)
Sec. 13C-45. Contracts.

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(a) The Agency may enter into contracts with one or more
responsible parties to construct and operate official
inspection stations, provide and maintain approved test
equipment, administer tests, certify results, issue emission
inspection stickers or certificates, maintain records, train
personnel, provide information to the public concerning the
program, or to otherwise further the goals of this Chapter.
(b) In preparing its proposals for bidding by potential
contractors, the Agency shall endeavor to include provisions
relating to the following factors:
(1) The demonstrated financial responsibility of the
potential contractor.
(2) The specialized experience and technical
competence of the potential contractor in connection with
the type of services required and the complexity of the
project.
(3) The potential contractor's past record of
performance on contracts with the Agency, with other
government agencies or public bodies, and with private
industry, including such items as cost, quality of work,
and ability to meet schedules.
(4) The capacity of the potential contractor to perform
the work within the time limitations.
(5) The familiarity of the potential contractor with
the types of problems applicable to the project.
(6) The potential contractor's proposed method to

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accomplish the work required, including where appropriate
any demonstrated capability of exploring and developing
innovative or advanced techniques and methods.
(7) Avoidance of personal and organizational conflicts
of interest prohibited under federal, State, or local law.
(8) The potential contractor's present and prior
involvement in the community and in the State of Illinois.
(c) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 101st General Assembly, the Agency may not enter into
new contracts under this Section and may not renew any contract
previously made under this Section.
(d) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2024.
(Source: P.A. 94-526, eff. 1-1-06.)
(625 ILCS 5/13C-45.5 new)
Sec. 13C-45.5. Inspection station qualifications.
(a) Any facility that performs maintenance or repair work
on motor vehicles as a routine part of its business may apply
to the Agency for certification as an official inspection
station. The Agency shall authorize as an official inspection
station any applicant that meets the following criteria:
(1) employs inspectors that have been certified by the
Agency after successfully completing a course of training
and successfully passing a written test;
(2) requires all inspections done at its facility to be
performed by the inspectors certified under paragraph (1)

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of this subsection (a); and
(3) uses equipment for its inspections that has been
approved by the Agency for inspections.
(b) The Agency shall adopt rules to implement this Section,
including, but not limited to, rules setting appropriate
application fees.
(c) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent
the Agency from operating its own official inspection stations.