100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB3520

 

Introduced , by Rep. Tim Butler

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
625 ILCS 5/18c-1204  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1204
625 ILCS 5/18c-1601  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1601
625 ILCS 5/18c-1602  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1602
625 ILCS 5/18c-1603  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1603
625 ILCS 5/18c-1604 rep.

    Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Expands the Transportation Division of the Illinois Commerce Commission to include administration and enforcement of Chapters in the Code governing commercial relocation of trespassing vehicles and commercial safety towing, the Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act. Provides that the Transportation Division shall consist of 3 programs (rather than 4) and one office (rather than 2). Provides that the 3 programs shall be Enforcement, Docketing and Processing, and Rail Safety. Provides the office shall be the Office of the Division Manager. Provides that legal or hearing examiner services relating to the regulatory responsibilities of the Transportation Division shall be provided by the Commission's Office of General Counsel and Bureau of Administrative Law Judges under the Public Utilities Act. Provides that all fees, penalties, and other monies collected under the Chapters in the Code governing commercial relocation of trespassing vehicles, commercial transportation, and commercial safety towing, the Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act shall be paid into the Transportation Regulatory Fund. Repeals a provision providing that the Commission shall report to the General Assembly and the Governor every fiscal year information regarding monies in the Transportation Regulatory Fund. Makes conforming changes.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
5Sections 18c-1204, 18c-1601, 18c-1602, and 18c-1603 as
6follows:
 
7    (625 ILCS 5/18c-1204)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1204)
8    Sec. 18c-1204. Transportation Division.
9    (1) Establishment. There shall be established within the
10staff of the Commission a Transportation Division in which
11primary staff responsibility for the administration and
12enforcement of this Chapter, Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of
13this Code, the Personal Property Storage Act, and the
14Collateral Recovery Act and Chapter 18a shall be vested. The
15Transportation Division shall be headed by a division manager
16responsible to the executive director.
17    (2) Structure. The Transportation Division shall consist
18of 3 4 programs and one office 2 offices. The 3 4 programs
19shall be Enforcement Compliance, Review and Examination,
20Docketing and Processing, and Rail Safety. Each program shall
21be headed by a program director and responsible to the division
22manager, except that in the Compliance Program the 3 staff
23supervisors shall each be responsible to the division manager.

 

 

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1The one office 2 offices shall be the Office of Transportation
2Counsel and the Office of the Division Manager. The Office of
3Transportation Counsel shall be headed by a Chief Counsel
4responsible to the Division Manager. The Division Manager shall
5coordinate the activities and responsibilities of the Division
6Office of Transportation Counsel with the executive director
7and the personal assistant serving as staff counsel to the
8executive director in the office of the executive director, and
9with the Commission.
10        (a) The Enforcement Compliance Program.
11            (i) The Enforcement Compliance Program shall
12        consist of a police staff, a rate auditing staff, and a
13        civil penalties staff. This staff These staffs shall be
14        headed by a Chief of Police, a Supervisor of Tariffs
15        and Audits, and a Supervisor of Civil Penalties,
16        respectively.
17            (ii) The police staff shall be divided into
18        districts with a field office in each district. Each
19        district shall be headed by a working supervisor
20        responsible to the Chief of Police. All staff
21        responsibility for enforcement of this Chapter, except
22        with regard to rail safety, shall be vested in the
23        Enforcement Compliance Program.
24        (b) (Blank). The Review and Examination Program.
25            (i) Staff responsibility for review of all
26        nonhearing matters under this Chapter and Chapter 18a

 

 

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1        and examination of all matters assigned for hearing
2        under this Chapter and Chapter 18a shall be vested in
3        the Review and Examination Program, except as
4        otherwise provided in Section 18c-1204b.
5            (ii) Hearing examiners in the program shall have
6        responsibility for developing a full, complete and
7        impartial record on all issues to be decided in a
8        proceeding; recommending disposition of the issues or
9        making an initial decision on them, as provided in this
10        Chapter; and setting forth in writing the basis for
11        their recommendations or initial decisions. The
12        program director shall be the chief hearing examiner
13        for matters under this Chapter and Chapter 18a with
14        responsibility to insure consistency of
15        recommendations and initial decisions.
16        (c) The Processing and Docketing Program. All staff
17    responsibility for docketing and processing filings,
18    accounting of receipts and expenditures, issuing, file
19    maintenance and other processing functions under this
20    Chapter and Chapter 18a shall be vested in the Processing
21    Program.
22        (d) The Rail Safety Program. Staff responsibility for
23    administration and enforcement of the rail safety
24    provisions of this Chapter shall be vested in the Rail
25    Safety Program.
26        (e) (Blank). The Office of Transportation Counsel.

 

 

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1            (i) All Commission staff responsibility for
2        provision of legal services in connection with any
3        matter under this Chapter, excepting any matter under
4        subchapters 7 and 8 of this Chapter, or in connection
5        with any matter under Chapter 18a shall, except with
6        regard to functions vested in the review and
7        examination program under paragraph (b) of this
8        subsection, be vested exclusively in the Office of
9        Transportation Counsel.
10            (ii) The Office of Transportation Counsel shall,
11        when directed through the division manager to do so,
12        represent the Commission or Commission staff in
13        administrative or judicial proceedings and render
14        staff advisory opinions to the executive director and
15        the Commission.
16    (e-5) Legal or hearing examiner services relating to the
17regulatory responsibilities of the Transportation Division
18shall be provided by the Commission's Office of General Counsel
19and Bureau of Administrative Law Judges under the Public
20Utilities Act.
21        (f) Levels of Administration. No additional levels of
22    administration, supervision or authority shall be
23    superimposed, or remain superimposed, between levels
24    prescribed under this Section, and no organizational units
25    may be created within the Transportation Division except as
26    prescribed under this Section.

 

 

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1    (3) Additional Functions. Staff functions relating to
2rulemaking, policy recommendations and advisory committees
3under this Chapter, and Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of this
4Code, the Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral
5Recovery Act shall be vested in the Transportation Division,
6except that the Transportation Division may receive legal and
7hearing examiner services from the Commission's Office of
8General Counsel and Bureau of Administrative Law Judges.
9    The staff shall prepare and distribute to the General
10Assembly, in April of each year, a report on railway accidents
11in Illinois which involve hazardous materials. The report shall
12include the location, substance involved, amounts involved,
13and the suspected reason for each accident. The report shall
14also reveal the rail line and point of origin of the hazardous
15material involved in each accident.
16(Source: P.A. 88-415.)
 
17    (625 ILCS 5/18c-1601)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1601)
18    Sec. 18c-1601. Deposit of Monies into the Transportation
19Regulatory Fund.
20    (1) Deposit of Fees, Taxes, and Monies Other Than Criminal
21Fines. All fees, penalties (other than criminal penalties) or
22monies collected in settlement of enforcement proceedings,
23taxes, and other monies collected under this Chapter, Chapter
2418a, and Chapter 18d of this Code, the Personal Property
25Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act or which are

 

 

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1transferred, appropriated or reimbursed to the Commission for
2the purpose of administering and enforcing this Chapter, shall
3be promptly paid into a special fund in the State treasury
4known as the Transportation Regulatory Fund.
5    (2) Accounting for Monies Received. The Commission shall
6account separately for the receipt of monies from the following
7classes:
8        (a) motor carriers of property (other than carriers
9    engaged in nonrelocation towing);
10        (b) rail carriers; and
11        (c) other monies.
12    The Commission may account separately with regard to groups
13of persons within the foregoing classes.
14    (3) Deposit of criminal fines. Criminal fines collected
15under this Chapter, Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of this Code,
16the Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery
17Act from motor carriers of property or persons or entities
18found to have aided or abetted motor carriers of property or
19passengers in violation of this Chapter shall be disposed of in
20accordance with Section 16-105 of this Code. Other criminal
21fines collected under this Chapter shall be deposited into the
22Transportation Regulatory Fund in accordance with subsection
23(1) of this Section.
24    (4) (Blank).
25(Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98.)
 

 

 

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1    (625 ILCS 5/18c-1602)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1602)
2    Sec. 18c-1602. Appropriations from the Transportation
3Regulatory Fund. (1) Appropriation of Monies. Appropriations
4from the Transportation Regulatory Fund shall be separately
5identified both in the Commission's appropriations request and
6the Act by which appropriations from the Fund are made.
7    (2) Authorization of Staff Positions. Authorized staff
8positions to be funded with monies appropriated from the
9Transportation Regulatory Fund shall be separately identified
10in the Commission's appropriations request.
11    (3) Appropriations and Authorizations Not Transferable.
12Appropriations from the Transportation Regulatory Fund shall
13be used only for the administration and enforcement of this
14Chapter, Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of this Code, the
15Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act
16and Chapter 18a. Such appropriations and authorized headcount
17may be transferred within the Transportation Regulatory Fund,
18but may not be transferred to any other fund.
19(Source: P.A. 85-553.)
 
20    (625 ILCS 5/18c-1603)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 18c-1603)
21    Sec. 18c-1603. Expenditures from the Transportation
22Regulatory Fund.
23    (1) Authorization of Expenditures from the Fund. Monies
24deposited in the Transportation Regulatory Fund shall be
25expended only for the administration and enforcement of this

 

 

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1Chapter, and Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of this Code, the
2Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act.
3Moneys in the Fund may also be used to administer the Personal
4Property Storage Act.
5    (2) Allocation of Expenses to the Fund.
6        (a) Expenses Allocated Entirely to the Transportation
7    Regulatory Fund. All expenses of the Transportation
8    Division shall be allocated to the Transportation
9    Regulatory Fund, provided that they were:
10            (i) Incurred by and for staff employed within the
11        Transportation Division and accountable, directly or
12        through a program director or staff supervisor, to the
13        Transportation Division manager;
14            (ii) Incurred exclusively in the administration
15        and enforcement of this Chapter, and Chapter 18a, and
16        Chapter 18d of this Code, the Personal Property Storage
17        Act, or the Collateral Recovery Act; and
18            (iii) Authorized by the Transportation Division
19        manager.
20        (b) Expenses Partially Allocated to the Transportation
21    Regulatory Fund. A portion of expenses for the following
22    persons and activities may be allocated to the
23    Transportation Regulatory Fund:
24            (i) The Executive Director, his deputies and
25        personal assistants, and their clerical support;
26            (ii) The legislative liaison activities of the

 

 

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1        Office of Legislative Affairs, its constituent
2        elements and successors;
3            (iii) The activities of the Bureau of Planning and
4        Operations and its successors on the effective date of
5        this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,
6        exclusive of the Chief Clerk's office;
7            (iv) The payroll expenses of Commissioners'
8        assistants;
9            (v) The internal auditor;
10            (vi) The in-state travel expenses of the
11        Commissioners to and from the offices of the
12        Commission; and
13            (vii) The Public Affairs Group, its constituent
14        elements, and its successors; .
15            (viii) The Bureau of Administrative Law Judges,
16        its constituent elements and successors, but only for
17        expenses relating to this Chapter, Chapter 18a, and
18        Chapter 18d of this Code, the Personal Property Storage
19        Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act; and
20            (ix) The Office of General Counsel, its
21        constituent elements and successors, but only for
22        expenses relating to this Chapter, Chapter 18a, and
23        Chapter 18d of this Code, the Personal Property Storage
24        Act, and the Collateral Recovery Act.
25        (c) Allocation Methodology for Expenses Other Than
26    Commissioners' Assistants. The portion of total expenses

 

 

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1    (other than commissioners' assistants' expenses) allocated
2    to the Transportation Regulatory Fund under paragraph (b)
3    of this subsection shall be the portion of staff time spent
4    exclusively on administration and enforcement of this
5    Chapter, and Chapter 18a, and Chapter 18d of this Code, the
6    Personal Property Storage Act, and the Collateral Recovery
7    Act, as shown by a time study updated at least once every
8    12 each 6 months.
9        (d) (Blank).
10        (e) Allocation methodology for Commissioners'
11    Assistants Expenses. Five percent of the payroll expenses
12    of commissioners' assistants may be allocated to the
13    Transportation Regulatory Fund.
14        (f) Expenses not allocable to the Transportation
15    Regulatory Fund. No expenses shall be allocated to or paid
16    from the Transportation Regulatory Fund except as
17    expressly authorized in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this
18    subsection. In particular, no expenses shall be allocated
19    to the Fund which were incurred by or in relation to the
20    following persons and activities:
21            (i) Commissioners' travel, except as otherwise
22        provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection;
23            (ii) Commissioners' assistants except as otherwise
24        provided in paragraphs (b) and (e) of this subsection;
25            (iii) The Policy Analysis and Research Division,
26        its constituent elements and successors;

 

 

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1            (iv) The Chief Clerk's office, its constituent
2        elements and successors;
3            (v) (Blank); The Hearing Examiners Division, its
4        constituent elements and successors, and any hearing
5        examiners or hearings conducted, in whole or in part,
6        outside the Transportation Division;
7            (vi) (Blank);
8            (vii) (Blank); and The Office of General Counsel,
9        its constituent elements and successors, including but
10        not limited to the Office of Public Utility Counsel and
11        any legal staff in the office of the executive
12        director, but not including the personal assistant
13        serving as staff counsel to the executive director as
14        provided in Section 18c-1204(2) and the Office of
15        Transportation Counsel; and
16            (viii) Any other expenses or portion thereof not
17        expressly authorized in this subsection to be
18        allocated to the Fund.
19        The constituent elements of the foregoing shall, for
20    purposes of this Section be their constituent elements on
21    the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987.
22    (3) (Blank).
23    (4) (Blank).
24(Source: P.A. 96-515, eff. 1-1-10.)
 
25    (625 ILCS 5/18c-1604 rep.)

 

 

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1    Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
2repealing Section 18c-1604.