99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

State of Illinois

 

2015 and 2016   

SB1501

 

Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

 

Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Department of Transportation for the purpose of preparing a federally approved Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement for a high speed rail system. Effective July 1, 2015.

 

 

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  $IDOT-HIGH SPEED RAIL

 

 

 


    AN ACT making appropriations.

 

        Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

 

     Section 5.  The sum of $15,000,000, or so much of that sum as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Department of Transportation for the purpose of preparing a federally approved Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a high speed rail system connecting O’Hare Airport, Union Station, McCormick Place, Champaign, Decatur, Springfield, and East St. Louis, with a branch to Indianapolis.

 

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2015.