102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1944
 
Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Tony McCombie
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



620 ILCS 5/38.01  from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 22.38a

     Amends the Illinois Aeronautics Act. Provides that language allowing the disbursement of certain federal funds by corporate authorities applies to an airport authority with responsibility over an airport that carried out 20,000 or more flight operations in any calendar year prior to 2020, in addition to any municipality or any political subdivision of more than 500,000 inhabitants.
  


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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 Illinois Aeronautics Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 38.01 as follows:
 



6    (620 ILCS 5/38.01)  (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 22.38a)



7    Sec. 38.01. Project applications. 

8    (a) No municipality or political subdivision in this 
9state, whether
acting alone or jointly with another 
10municipality or political subdivision
or with the state, shall 
11submit any project application under the provisions of
the 
12Airport and Airway Improvement Act of
1982, or any amendment

13thereof, unless the project and the project application have 
14been first
approved by the Department. No such municipality or 
15political subdivision
shall directly accept, receive, or 
16disburse any funds granted
by the United States under the 
17Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982,
but it shall 
18designate the Department as its agent to accept,
receive, and 
19disburse such funds, provided, however, nothing
in this 
20Section shall be construed to prohibit any municipality or any

21political subdivision of more than 500,000 inhabitants, or any 
22airport authority with responsibility over an airport that 
23carried out 20,000 or more flight operations in any calendar 
 
 
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1year prior to 2020, from disbursing
such funds through its 
2corporate authorities. It shall enter into an
agreement with 
3the Department prescribing the terms and conditions of
such 
4agency in accordance with federal laws, rules and regulations 
5and
applicable laws of this state.
This
subsection (a) does 
6not apply to any project application submitted in
connection 
7with the O'Hare
Modernization Program as defined in Section 10 
8of the O'Hare Modernization Act.

9    (b) The City of Chicago may submit a project
application

10under the provisions of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act 
11of 1982,
as now or hereafter amended, or any other federal law 
12providing for airport
planning or
development, if the 
13application
is submitted in connection with the O'Hare 
14Modernization Program as defined in
Section 10 of
the O'Hare 
15Modernization Act, and the City may directly accept,
receive, 
16and
disburse any such funds.

17(Source: P.A. 92-341, eff. 8-10-01; 93-450, eff. 8-6-03.)