Full Text of HB1597 96th General Assembly
HB1597sam003 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. John J. Cullerton
Filed: 10/29/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1597
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1597, AS AMENDED, | 3 |
| with reference to page and line numbers of Senate Amendment No. | 4 |
| 2, by replacing everything from line 8 on page 7 through line | 5 |
| 23 on page 9 with the following:
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| "amended by changing Section 51 as follows:"; and | 7 |
| on page 12, by replacing lines 3 and 4 with the following: | 8 |
| "amended by changing Sections 2.01d, 2.04, 3A.15, and 3B.14 as | 9 |
| follows:"; and | 10 |
| by replacing everything from line 3 on page 14 through line 23 | 11 |
| on page 17 with the following:
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| "(70 ILCS 3615/2.04) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 702.04)
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| Sec. 2.04. Fares and Nature of Service. | 14 |
| (a) Whenever a Service Board provides any public | 15 |
| transportation by
operating public transportation facilities, |
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| the Service Board
shall provide for the level and nature of | 2 |
| fares or charges to be made for
such services, and the nature | 3 |
| and standards of public transportation to
be so provided that | 4 |
| meet the goals and objectives adopted by the Authority in the | 5 |
| Strategic Plan. Provided, however that if the Board adopts a | 6 |
| budget and
financial plan for a Service Board in accordance | 7 |
| with the provisions in
Section 4.11(b)(5), the Board may | 8 |
| consistent with the terms of any purchase
of service contract | 9 |
| provide for the level and nature of fares
to be made for such | 10 |
| services under the jurisdiction of that Service Board,
and the | 11 |
| nature and standards of public transportation to be so | 12 |
| provided.
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| (b) Whenever a Service Board provides any public | 14 |
| transportation
pursuant to grants made after June 30, 1975, to | 15 |
| transportation agencies
for operating expenses (other than | 16 |
| with regard to experimental programs)
or pursuant to any | 17 |
| purchase of service agreement, the purchase of service
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| agreement or grant contract shall provide for the level and | 19 |
| nature of fares
or charges to be made for such services, and | 20 |
| the nature and standards of
public transportation to be so | 21 |
| provided. A Service Board
shall require all transportation | 22 |
| agencies with which it contracts, or from
which it purchases | 23 |
| transportation services or to which it makes grants to
provide | 24 |
| half fare transportation for their student riders if any of | 25 |
| such
agencies provide for half fare transportation to their | 26 |
| student riders.
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| (c) In so providing for the fares or charges and the nature | 2 |
| and standards of
public transportation, any purchase of service | 3 |
| agreements or grant contracts
shall provide, among other | 4 |
| matters, for the terms or cost of transfers
or interconnections | 5 |
| between different modes of transportation and
different public | 6 |
| transportation agencies, schedules or routes of such
service, | 7 |
| changes which may be made in such service, the nature and
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| condition of the facilities used in providing service, the | 9 |
| manner of
collection and disposition of fares or charges, the | 10 |
| records and reports
to be kept and made concerning such | 11 |
| service, for interchangeable
tickets or other coordinated or | 12 |
| uniform methods of collection of
charges, and shall further | 13 |
| require that the transportation agency comply with any | 14 |
| determination made by the Board of the Authority under and | 15 |
| subject to the provisions of Section 2.12b of this Act. In | 16 |
| regard to any such service, the Authority and the Service
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| Boards shall give
attention to and may undertake programs to | 18 |
| promote use of public
transportation and to provide coordinated | 19 |
| ticket sales and passenger
information. In the case of a grant | 20 |
| to a transportation agency which
remains subject to Illinois | 21 |
| Commerce Commission supervision and
regulation, the Service | 22 |
| Boards shall exercise the powers
set forth in this
Section in a | 23 |
| manner consistent with such supervision and regulation by
the | 24 |
| Illinois Commerce Commission.
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| (d) Except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act of | 26 |
| the 96th General Assembly, no Service Board shall increase |
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| fares or charges for public transportation services provided in | 2 |
| 2010 or 2011. | 3 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-708, eff. 1-18-08.)"; and
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| by deleting everything from line 1 on page 19 through line 20 | 5 |
| on page 22.
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