Sen. John J. Cullerton
Filed: 10/29/2009
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1597
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1597, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
| 3 | with reference to page and line numbers of Senate Amendment No. | ||||||
| 4 | 2, by replacing everything from line 8 on page 7 through line | ||||||
| 5 | 23 on page 9 with the following:
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| 6 | "amended by changing Section 51 as follows:"; and | ||||||
| 7 | on page 12, by replacing lines 3 and 4 with the following: | ||||||
| 8 | "amended by changing Sections 2.01d, 2.04, 3A.15, and 3B.14 as | ||||||
| 9 | follows:"; and | ||||||
| 10 | by replacing everything from line 3 on page 14 through line 23 | ||||||
| 11 | on page 17 with the following:
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| 12 | "(70 ILCS 3615/2.04) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 702.04)
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| 13 | Sec. 2.04. Fares and Nature of Service. | ||||||
| 14 | (a) Whenever a Service Board provides any public | ||||||
| 15 | transportation by
operating public transportation facilities, | ||||||
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| 1 | the Service Board
shall provide for the level and nature of | ||||||
| 2 | fares or charges to be made for
such services, and the nature | ||||||
| 3 | and standards of public transportation to
be so provided that | ||||||
| 4 | meet the goals and objectives adopted by the Authority in the | ||||||
| 5 | Strategic Plan. Provided, however that if the Board adopts a | ||||||
| 6 | budget and
financial plan for a Service Board in accordance | ||||||
| 7 | with the provisions in
Section 4.11(b)(5), the Board may | ||||||
| 8 | consistent with the terms of any purchase
of service contract | ||||||
| 9 | provide for the level and nature of fares
to be made for such | ||||||
| 10 | services under the jurisdiction of that Service Board,
and the | ||||||
| 11 | nature and standards of public transportation to be so | ||||||
| 12 | provided.
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| 13 | (b) Whenever a Service Board provides any public | ||||||
| 14 | transportation
pursuant to grants made after June 30, 1975, to | ||||||
| 15 | transportation agencies
for operating expenses (other than | ||||||
| 16 | with regard to experimental programs)
or pursuant to any | ||||||
| 17 | purchase of service agreement, the purchase of service
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| 18 | agreement or grant contract shall provide for the level and | ||||||
| 19 | nature of fares
or charges to be made for such services, and | ||||||
| 20 | the nature and standards of
public transportation to be so | ||||||
| 21 | provided. A Service Board
shall require all transportation | ||||||
| 22 | agencies with which it contracts, or from
which it purchases | ||||||
| 23 | transportation services or to which it makes grants to
provide | ||||||
| 24 | half fare transportation for their student riders if any of | ||||||
| 25 | such
agencies provide for half fare transportation to their | ||||||
| 26 | student riders.
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| 1 | (c) In so providing for the fares or charges and the nature | ||||||
| 2 | and standards of
public transportation, any purchase of service | ||||||
| 3 | agreements or grant contracts
shall provide, among other | ||||||
| 4 | matters, for the terms or cost of transfers
or interconnections | ||||||
| 5 | between different modes of transportation and
different public | ||||||
| 6 | transportation agencies, schedules or routes of such
service, | ||||||
| 7 | changes which may be made in such service, the nature and
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| 8 | condition of the facilities used in providing service, the | ||||||
| 9 | manner of
collection and disposition of fares or charges, the | ||||||
| 10 | records and reports
to be kept and made concerning such | ||||||
| 11 | service, for interchangeable
tickets or other coordinated or | ||||||
| 12 | uniform methods of collection of
charges, and shall further | ||||||
| 13 | require that the transportation agency comply with any | ||||||
| 14 | determination made by the Board of the Authority under and | ||||||
| 15 | subject to the provisions of Section 2.12b of this Act. In | ||||||
| 16 | regard to any such service, the Authority and the Service
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| 17 | Boards shall give
attention to and may undertake programs to | ||||||
| 18 | promote use of public
transportation and to provide coordinated | ||||||
| 19 | ticket sales and passenger
information. In the case of a grant | ||||||
| 20 | to a transportation agency which
remains subject to Illinois | ||||||
| 21 | Commerce Commission supervision and
regulation, the Service | ||||||
| 22 | Boards shall exercise the powers
set forth in this
Section in a | ||||||
| 23 | manner consistent with such supervision and regulation by
the | ||||||
| 24 | Illinois Commerce Commission.
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| 25 | (d) Except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act of | ||||||
| 26 | the 96th General Assembly, no Service Board shall increase | ||||||
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| 1 | fares or charges for public transportation services provided in | ||||||
| 2 | 2010 or 2011. | ||||||
| 3 | (Source: P.A. 95-708, eff. 1-18-08.)"; and
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| 4 | by deleting everything from line 1 on page 19 through line 20 | ||||||
| 5 | on page 22.
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