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2025 and 2026 SB0263 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that all motor vehicles with at least 2 lighted head lamps and manufactured after January 1, 2028 shall be equipped with adjustable driving beam systems which satisfy the United States Department of Transportation regulations. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 06411 LNS 16447 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0263 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that all motor vehicles with at least 2 lighted head lamps and manufactured after January 1, 2028 shall be equipped with adjustable driving beam systems which satisfy the United States Department of Transportation regulations. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 06411 LNS 16447 b LRB104 06411 LNS 16447 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0263 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201
625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that all motor vehicles with at least 2 lighted head lamps and manufactured after January 1, 2028 shall be equipped with adjustable driving beam systems which satisfy the United States Department of Transportation regulations. Effective January 1, 2026.
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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 Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
5 changing Section 12-201 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/12-201) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201)
7 Sec. 12-201. When lighted lamps are required.
8 (a) When operated upon any highway in this State, every
9 motorcycle shall at all times exhibit at least one lighted
10 lamp, showing a white light visible for at least 500 feet in
11 the direction the motorcycle is proceeding. However, in lieu
12 of such lighted lamp, a motorcycle may be equipped with and use
13 a means of modulating the upper beam of the head lamp between
14 high and a lower brightness. No such head lamp shall be
15 modulated, except to otherwise comply with this Code, during
16 times when lighted lamps are required for other motor
17 vehicles.
18 (b) All other motor vehicles shall exhibit at least 2
19 lighted head lamps, with at least one on each side of the
20 frontmost of the vehicle, which satisfy United States
21 Department of Transportation requirements, as set forth in 49
22 CFR 571.108, showing white lights, including that emitted by
23 high intensity discharge (HID) lamps, or lights of a yellow or
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0263 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201 625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201
625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that all motor vehicles with at least 2 lighted head lamps and manufactured after January 1, 2028 shall be equipped with adjustable driving beam systems which satisfy the United States Department of Transportation regulations. Effective January 1, 2026.
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1 amber tint, during the period from sunset to sunrise, at times
2 when rain, snow, fog, or other atmospheric conditions require
3 the use of windshield wipers, and at any other times when, due
4 to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions,
5 persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly
6 discernible at a distance of 1000 feet. Parking lamps may be
7 used in addition to but not in lieu of such head lamps. Every
8 motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer shall also exhibit at
9 least 2 lighted lamps, commonly known as tail lamps, which
10 shall be mounted on the left rearmost and right rearmost of the
11 vehicle so as to throw a red light visible for at least 500
12 feet in the reverse direction, except that a truck tractor or
13 road tractor manufactured before January 1, 1968 and all
14 motorcycles need be equipped with only one such tail lamp.
15 (c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so
16 constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light a
17 rear registration plate when required and render it clearly
18 legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any tail lamp
19 or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for
20 illuminating a rear registration plate, shall be so wired as
21 to be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving
22 lamps are lighted.
23 (d) A person shall install only head lamps that satisfy
24 United States Department of Transportation regulations, as set
25 forth in 49 CFR 571.108, and show white light, including that
26 emitted by HID lamps, or light of a yellow or amber tint for
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1 use by a motor vehicle.
2 (e) (Blank).
3 (f) All motor vehicles with at least 2 lighted head lamps
4 and manufactured after January 1, 2028 shall be equipped with
5 adjustable driving beam systems which satisfy the United
6 States Department of Transportation regulations, as set forth
7 in 49 CFR 571.108.
8 (Source: P.A. 103-706, eff. 1-1-25.)
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