Full Text of HB2068 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning business.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 | | Transportation Benefits Program Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
| 7 | | "Covered employee" means any person who performs an | 8 | | average of at least 35 hours of work per week for compensation | 9 | | on a full-time basis. | 10 | | "Covered employer" means any individual, partnership, | 11 | | association, corporation, limited liability company, | 12 | | government, non-profit organization, or business trust that | 13 | | directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other | 14 | | person, employs or exercises control over wages, hours, or | 15 | | working conditions of an employee, and that: | 16 | | (1) is located in: Cook County; Warren Township in | 17 | | Lake County; Grant Township in Lake County; Frankfort | 18 | | Township in Will County; Wheatland Township in Will | 19 | | County; Addison Township; Bloomingdale Township; York | 20 | | Township; Milton Township; Winfield Township; Downers | 21 | | Grove Township; Lisle Township; Naperville Township; | 22 | | Dundee Township; Elgin Township; St. Charles Township; | 23 | | Geneva Township; Batavia Township; Aurora Township; Zion |
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| 1 | | Township; Benton Township; Waukegan Township; Avon | 2 | | Township; Libertyville Township; Shields Township; Vernon | 3 | | Township; West Deerfield Township; Deerfield Township; | 4 | | McHenry Township; Nunda Township; Algonquin Township; | 5 | | DuPage Township; Homer Township; Lockport Township; | 6 | | Plainfield Township; New Lenox Township; Joliet Township; | 7 | | or Troy Township; and | 8 | | (2) employs 50 or more covered employees in a | 9 | | geographic area specified in paragraph (1) at an address | 10 | | that is located within one mile of fixed-route transit | 11 | | service. | 12 | | "Public transit" means any transportation system within | 13 | | the authority and jurisdiction of the Regional Transportation | 14 | | Authority.
| 15 | | "Transit pass" means any pass, token, fare card, voucher, | 16 | | or similar item entitling a person to transportation on public | 17 | | transit.
| 18 | | Section 10. Transportation benefits program. All covered | 19 | | employers shall provide a pre-tax commuter benefit to covered | 20 | | employees. The pre-tax commuter benefit shall allow employees | 21 | | to use pre-tax dollars for the purchase of a transit pass, via | 22 | | payroll deduction, such that the costs for such purchases may | 23 | | be excluded from the employee's taxable wages and compensation | 24 | | up to the maximum amount permitted by federal tax law, | 25 | | consistent with 26 U.S.C. 132(f) and the rules and regulations |
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| 1 | | promulgated thereunder. A covered employer may comply with | 2 | | this Section by participating in a program offered by the | 3 | | Chicago Transit Authority or the Regional Transportation | 4 | | Authority. | 5 | | This benefit must be offered to all employees starting on | 6 | | the employees' first full pay period after 120 days of | 7 | | employment. All transit agencies shall market the existence of | 8 | | this program and this Act to their riders in order to inform | 9 | | affected employees and their employers. | 10 | | Section 15. Regional Transit Authority map. The Regional | 11 | | Transportation Authority shall make publicly available a | 12 | | searchable map of addresses that are located within one mile | 13 | | of fixed-route transit service. | 14 | | Section 20. Application of Act. Nothing in this Act shall | 15 | | be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the | 16 | | right of employees to bargain collectively with their | 17 | | employers through representatives of their own choosing in | 18 | | order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess | 19 | | of the applicable minimum standards of the provisions of this | 20 | | Act. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect the validity | 21 | | or change the terms of bona fide collective bargaining | 22 | | agreements in force on the effective date of this Act. After | 23 | | the effective date of this Act, requirements of this Act may be | 24 | | waived in a bona fide collective bargaining agreement, but |
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| 1 | | only if the waiver is set forth explicitly in such agreement in | 2 | | clear and unambiguous terms.
| 3 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 4 | | 1, 2024.
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