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SB0005Introduced in the Senate

METROPOLITAN MOBILITY AUTH ACT

IntroducedSenate Assignments

Introduced by Ram Villivalam, District 8

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Official description

Creates the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act. Establishes the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Provides that the Chicago Transit Authority, the Commuter Rail Division and the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and the Regional Transportation Authority are consolidated into the Metropolitan Mobility Authority and the Service Boards are abolished. Creates the Suburban Bus Operating Division, Commuter Rail Operating Division, and the Chicago Transit Operating Division. Reinserts, reorganizes, and changes some provisions from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act into the new Act. Includes provisions concerning the operation of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Repeals the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Amends various Acts, Laws, and Codes to make conforming changes. Creates the Equitable Transit-Supportive Development Act. Establishes the Office of Equitable Transit-Oriented Development and the Transit-Supportive Development Fund. Provides that the Office and the Fund are to aid transit-supportive development near high-quality transit by providing specified funding to municipalities that have adopted the standards in the transit support overlay district for that area or that have adopted zoning and other changes that the Office determines have benefits greater than or equal to such a District, including transit support overlay districts. Includes provisions relating to Office standards, procedures, and reports. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code. Requires the Department to establish, staff, and support an Office of Public Transportation Support for the purpose of optimizing the operation of public transportation vehicles and the delivery of public transportation services on highways under the Department's jurisdiction in the Metropolitan Mobility Authority's metropolitan region. Describes the duties and operations of the Office. Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that the Chair of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority is a nonvoting member of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

Where it stands

Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments

June 2, 2025

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Bill history

  1. Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam

  2. First Reading

  3. Referred to Assignments

  4. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino

  5. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters

  6. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine

  7. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons

  8. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane L. Johnson

  9. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán

  10. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick

  11. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick

  12. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz

  13. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen

  14. Assigned to Transportation

  15. Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 4, 2025

  16. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford

  17. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston

  18. Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2025

  19. Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 9, 2025

  20. Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 23, 2025

  21. Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As June 1, 2025

  22. Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments

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