102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3875

 

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Rachelle Crowe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 140/5
605 ILCS 140/90

    Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Includes Boone, Bureau, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Madison, McHenry, St. Clair, Will and Winnebago counties among the counties in which the Illinois State Police, the Department of Transportation, and the Toll Highway Authority shall increase the amount of expressway and highway cameras. Provides that any funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways shall be taken from the Road Fund or Illinois State Toll Highway Authority funds and shall be included in requests for qualification processes for both agencies. Repeals the Act on July 1, 2025 (rather than July 1, 2023).


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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 Expressway Camera Act is amended by
5changing Sections 5 and 90 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 140/5)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2023)
8    Sec. 5. Camera program.
9    (a) The Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of
10Transportation, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
11shall work together to conduct a program to increase the
12amount of cameras along expressways and the State highway
13system in Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry,
14Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Madison, McHenry, St. Clair,
15Will, and Winnebago counties Cook County.
16    (b) Images from the cameras may be used by any municipal
17police department, county sheriff's office, State Police
18officer, or other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction
19over the expressway in Cook County in the investigation of any
20offense involving the use of a firearm and to detect
21expressway hazards. Images from the cameras shall not be used
22to enforce petty offenses.
23    (c) Subject to appropriation, any funds needed to conduct

 

 

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1the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of
2the Department of Transportation shall be taken from the Road
3Fund or Illinois State Toll Highway Authority funds and shall
4be included in requests for qualification processes for both
5agencies.
6    (d) As used in this Section, "expressway" has the meaning
7provided in Section 1-119.3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
8(Source: P.A. 101-42, eff. 1-1-20.)
 
9    (605 ILCS 140/90)
10    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2023)
11    Sec. 90. Repeal. This Act is repealed on July 1, 2025 2023.
12(Source: P.A. 101-42, eff. 1-1-20.)