104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1255
 
Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Andrew S. Chesney
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
625 ILCS 5/1408.1 new
    Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Restricts a tow truck operator from allowing passengers to occupy the trailer, semitrailer, farm wagon, or any other vehicle being carried by a flatbed tow truck upon a public highway, unless: (i) the number of people that need to be transported exceeds the seating capacity of the tow truck or a person needing to be transported has a disability that limits that person's ability to enter the tow truck;(ii) there is a way for the passenger in the carried vehicle to immediately communicate, either verbally, audibly, or visually, with the tow truck operator in case of an emergency; and (iii) if the passenger is under 16 years of age, the passenger is accompanied by an adult riding in the same vehicle. Requires that no passenger of a carried vehicle may exit the carried vehicle, ride outside of the passenger compartment of the carried vehicle, or exhibit dangerous or distracting behaviors while the carried vehicle is upon a public highway.


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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 Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding 
5Section 1408.1 as follows:
 
6    (625 ILCS 5/1408.1 new)
7    Sec. 1408.1. Vehicles carried on a flatbed tow truck. A 
8tow truck operator shall not allow a passenger to occupy the 
9trailer, semitrailer, farm wagon, or any other vehicle being 
10carried by a flatbed tow truck upon a public highway, unless:
11        (1) the number of people that need to be transported 
12    exceeds the seating capacity of the tow truck or a person 
13    needing to be transported has a disability that limits 
14    that person's ability to enter the tow truck;
15        (2) there is a way for the passenger in the carried 
16    vehicle to immediately communicate, either verbally, 
17    audibly, or visually, with the tow truck operator in case 
18    of an emergency; and
19        (3) if the passenger is under 16 years of age, the 
20    passenger is accompanied by an adult riding in the same 
21    vehicle.
22No passenger of a carried vehicle may exit the carried 
23vehicle, ride outside of the passenger compartment of the 
 
 
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1carried vehicle, or exhibit dangerous or distracting behaviors 
2while the carried vehicle is upon a public highway.