95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB5571


 
Introduced , by Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













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    Amends the Illinois Procurement Code.  Requires that each Department of Transportation construction contract specify a construction completion date and a monetary penalty against the contractor for each day  completion is delayed for a cause attributable to the contractor or a subcontractor.  Grants a business that suffers economic losses due to the delay the right to recover those losses from the contractor in the circuit court, up to the contract's penalty amount.
















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    AN ACT concerning finance.

 
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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 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended  by 
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adding Section 30-36 as follows:
 
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    (30 ILCS 500/30-36  new)
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    Sec. 30-36. Construction delays.  Each contract subject to 
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this Article awarded after the effective date of this 
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amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly for which the 
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Department of Transportation is the construction agency shall 
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specify a construction completion date and shall include as a 
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condition of the contract a monetary penalty for each day after 
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that date that the construction is not completed for a cause 
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attributable to the contractor or any of its subcontractors.  
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The amount of the monetary penalty shall be determined from 
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criteria established by rule of the Department.
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    A business that suffers economic losses because 
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construction pursuant to a contract subject to this Section is 
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not completed by the contract's specified construction 
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completion date due to a cause attributable to the contractor 
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or any of the contractor's subcontractors may recover those 
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economic losses in the circuit court from that contractor in an 
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amount not to exceed the monetary penalty specified in the 
 


 






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contract in accordance with this Section.
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    Nothing in this Section replaces or limits any other remedy 
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for economic losses that a business may have against any party 
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to a contract subject to this Article.