Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3177 Latest Draft

Bill / Engrossed Version Filed 04/11/2025

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1  AN ACT concerning transportation.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The Innovations for Transportation
5  Infrastructure Act is amended by changing Section 15 as
6  follows:
7  (630 ILCS 10/15)
8  (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2032)
9  Sec. 15. Authorization of project delivery methods.
10  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and as authority
11  supplemental to its existing powers, except as otherwise
12  provided for in this Act, the Transportation Agency, in
13  accordance with this Act, may use the design-build project
14  delivery method for transportation facilities if the capital
15  costs for transportation facilities delivered utilizing the
16  design-build project delivery method or Construction
17  Manager/General Contractor project delivery method or
18  Alternative Technical Concepts in a design-bid-build project
19  delivery method do not: (i) for transportation facilities
20  delivered by the Department, exceed $500,000,000 $400 million
21  of contracts awarded on an annual basis during the
22  Department's multi-year highway improvement program for any
23  5-year period; or (ii) for transportation facilities delivered

 

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1  by the Authority, exceed 20% of the Authority's annual
2  improvement program. The Transportation Agency shall make this
3  calculation before commencing the procurement. The Department
4  may, by rule, adjust the applicable monetary threshold set
5  forth in item (i) on a yearly basis to reflect inflationary
6  costs in highway construction as measured by the United States
7  Department of Transportation in the National Highway
8  Construction Cost Index or other similar index. A notice of
9  any change to that threshold shall be published in the
10  Illinois Transportation Bulletin. Notwithstanding any other
11  law, and as authority supplemental to its existing powers, the
12  Department, in accordance with this Act, may use the
13  Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery
14  method for up to 2 transportation facilities per year. Before
15  commencing a procurement under this Act for either a
16  design-build contract or a Construction Manager/General
17  Contractor contract, the Transportation Agency shall first
18  undertake an analysis and make a written determination that it
19  is in the best interests of this State to use the selected
20  delivery method for that transportation facility. The analysis
21  and determination shall discuss the design-build project
22  delivery method or Construction Manager/General Contractor
23  project delivery method's impact on the anticipated schedule,
24  completion date, and project costs. The best interests of the
25  State analysis shall be made available to the public.
26  (b) The Transportation Agency shall report to the General

 

 

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1  Assembly annually for the first 5 years after June 15, 2022
2  (the effective date of this Act) on the progress of
3  procurements and transportation facilities procured under this
4  Act.
5  (c) A contract entered into pursuant to the provisions of
6  this Act is excepted from the Public Contract Fraud Act.
7  (Source: P.A. 102-1094, eff. 6-15-22; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)
8  Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9  becoming law.

 

 

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