METROPOLITAN MOBILITY AUTH ACT
- Introduced Jan 13, 2025
- In committee Jan 13, 2025
- Passed the Senate Next
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
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…
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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.
Every action
22 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
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- SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam
- SenateFirst Reading
- CommitteeReferred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
- SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
- SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
- SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane L. Johnson
- SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
- CommitteeAssigned to Transportation · Senate Transportation
- SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 4, 2025
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
- SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston
- SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2025
- SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 9, 2025
- SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 23, 2025
- SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As June 1, 2025
- CommitteeRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it, joined by 11 cosponsors: 11 Democrats.
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Ram VillivalamD Primary sponsor · District 8
From Illinois's official records (www.ilga.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.