Full Text of HB4757 95th General Assembly
HB4757eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School | 6 |
| Transparency Act. | 7 |
| Section 5. Intent. This Act is intended to increase the | 8 |
| selection transparency, objectiveness, and predictability of | 9 |
| the Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School | 10 |
| programs. | 11 |
| Section 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 12 |
| "Committees" means the grants review committees created in | 13 |
| this Act. | 14 |
| "Department" means the Illinois Department of | 15 |
| Transportation. | 16 |
| "Grant programs" means the Transportation Enhancements | 17 |
| Program and the Safe Routes to School Program as defined in the | 18 |
| Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act: | 19 |
| A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109-59) or successor programs | 20 |
| for transportation enhancements or safe routes to schools | 21 |
| activities administered by the United States Department of | 22 |
| Transportation. |
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| "Secretary" means the Illinois Secretary of | 2 |
| Transportation. | 3 |
| Section 15. Grants review committees. For each of the grant | 4 |
| programs, the Secretary shall appoint a committee to evaluate, | 5 |
| score, and rank all applications for funding submitted. The | 6 |
| committees shall each include 2 representatives from the | 7 |
| Department, 2 representatives from metropolitan planning | 8 |
| organizations, counties, or municipalities, 4 representatives | 9 |
| from other relevant state agencies, and 3 representatives from | 10 |
| relevant public interest organizations. Committee members | 11 |
| shall be appointed for a 4-year term and shall serve until | 12 |
| their successor is appointed. The Secretary shall make | 13 |
| appointments to the committees no later than 90 days following | 14 |
| the effective date of this Act. The Secretary shall fill | 15 |
| vacancies on the committees within 90 days. | 16 |
| Section 20. Grants review process. | 17 |
| (a) Each committee shall establish criteria for | 18 |
| evaluating, scoring, and ranking all funding applications for | 19 |
| the grant programs. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | 20 |
| these criteria are public records under the Freedom of | 21 |
| Information Act. The criteria shall also be made available on | 22 |
| the Department's website upon their acceptance by the | 23 |
| committee. | 24 |
| (b) The committees shall evaluate, score, and rank all |
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| funding applications for the grant programs using the | 2 |
| established criteria. All available funding from these | 3 |
| programs are subject to this application, evaluation, scoring, | 4 |
| and ranking process. Notwithstanding any other provision of | 5 |
| law, the scores and rankings of applications are public records | 6 |
| under the Freedom of Information Act. The scores and rankings | 7 |
| shall also be made available on the Department's website | 8 |
| promptly upon their acceptance by the committee.
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| (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the | 10 |
| meetings of the committees are meetings of a public body open | 11 |
| to the public under the Open Meetings Act. Any meetings of the | 12 |
| committees including evaluating, scoring, and ranking of | 13 |
| applications for funding shall include a public comment period. | 14 |
| The committees shall establish reasonable criteria for the | 15 |
| submission of public comments. | 16 |
| (d) The application evaluation, scoring, and ranking | 17 |
| decisions of the committees are binding upon the Department. | 18 |
| Applications shall be funded in order of ranking by the | 19 |
| committees. The Department shall promptly announce these | 20 |
| decisions. | 21 |
| Section 25. Grant programs frequencies and deadlines. | 22 |
| (a) No later than 120 days after the effective date of this | 23 |
| Act, the Department, in consultation with the committees, shall | 24 |
| select either an annual or biennial application cycle frequency | 25 |
| for each grant program. Subject to the availability of federal |
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| funds, the grant programs shall follow these frequencies.
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| (b) The Department and committees shall establish | 3 |
| reasonable deadlines, occurring at the same time of each | 4 |
| appropriate year, for the submission of any funding | 5 |
| applications for the grant programs. The committees shall | 6 |
| finalize funding decisions no later than 150 days after the | 7 |
| deadlines for the submission of any funding applications for | 8 |
| the grant programs. | 9 |
| Section 30. No rulemaking authority. Notwithstanding any | 10 |
| other rulemaking authority that may exist, neither the Governor | 11 |
| nor any agency or agency head under the jurisdiction of the | 12 |
| Governor has any authority to make or promulgate rules to | 13 |
| implement or enforce the provisions of this Act. If, however, | 14 |
| the Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or | 15 |
| enforce the provisions of this Act, the Governor may suggest | 16 |
| rules to the General Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of | 17 |
| the House and the Secretary of the Senate and by requesting | 18 |
| that the General Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, | 19 |
| enact those suggested rules into law, or take any other | 20 |
| appropriate action in the General Assembly's discretion. | 21 |
| Nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted to grant | 22 |
| rulemaking authority under any other Illinois statute where | 23 |
| such authority is not otherwise explicitly given. For the | 24 |
| purposes of this Section, "rules" is given the meaning | 25 |
| contained in Section 1-70 of the Illinois Administrative |
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| Procedure Act, and "agency" and "agency head" are given the | 2 |
| meanings contained in Sections 1-20 and 1-25 of the Illinois | 3 |
| Administrative Procedure Act to the extent that such | 4 |
| definitions apply to agencies or agency heads under the | 5 |
| jurisdiction of the Governor.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 |
| becoming law.
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