Illinois 100th Regular Session Status: Passed House 1 D cosponsors

HB 2802 — TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT PROGRAM

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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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Summary

Creates the Transportation Benefits Program Act. Requires all covered employers to offer at least one transportation benefit program. Provides that the employer may choose between providing a program consistent with federal law that allows employees to elect to exclude from taxable wages and compensation the employee's commuting costs incurred for the purchase of a transit pass to use public transit or for the purchase of qualified parking, or a program under which the employer supplies a transit pass for the particular qualifying public transit requested by the covered employee or reimburses the covered employee for payments made for the use of qualified parking. Defines terms. Effective January 1, 2018.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

44 added · 55 removed

Plain-language change summary

The updated version of Bill HB 2802 now requires employers within the Regional Transportation Authority's jurisdiction to provide transportation benefits if they have an average of 25 or more full-time employees, rather than the previous threshold of 20. Additionally, it specifies that all workers, including part-time and temporary employees, should be counted when determining whether an employer meets this requirement. This change is significant because it broadens the eligibility for employers to provide these benefits, potentially improving access to affordable transportation options for more employees.

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*LRB10006136JLS16169b* HB2802 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois and 2018 HB2802 by Rep.
HB2802 Engrossed LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b AN ACT concerning business.
Theresa Mah SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act Creates the Transportation Benefits Program Act.
Requires all covered employers to offer at least one transportation benefit program.
Provides federal law that allows employees to elect to exclude from taxable wages and compensation the employee's commuting costs incurred for the purchase of a transit pass to use public transit or for the purchase of qualified parking, or a program under which the employer supplies a transit pass for the particular qualifying public transit requested by the covered employee or reimburses the covered employee for payments made for the use of qualified parking.
Defines terms.
Effective January 1, 2018.
LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b A BILL FOR HB2802 LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b AN ACT concerning business.
"Covered employee" means any person who performs an average of at least 10 hours of work per week for compensation within the geographic boundaries of the State of Illinois for the same employer within the previous calendar month.
"Covered employee" means any person who performs an average of at least 10 hours of work per week for compensation within the geographic boundaries of the jurisdiction of the Regional Transportation Authority for the same employer within the previous calendar month.
"Covered employer" means an employer for which an average of 20 or more persons per week perform work for compensation.
All persons performing work for compensation on a full-time, part-time, or temporary basis shall be counted, including persons made available to work through the services of a temporary services or staffing agency or similar entity.
In determining the number of persons performing work for an employer during a given week, all persons performing work for compensation on a full-time, part-time, or temporary basis shall be counted, including persons made available to work through the services of a temporary services or staffing agency or similar entity.
"Covered employer" means an employer within the geographic boundaries of the Regional Transportation Authority jurisdiction for which an average of 25 or more full-time employees work for compensation.
"Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or business trust who directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other person, employs or exercises control over wages, hours, or working conditions of an employee.
"Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or business trust who directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other person, employs or exercises control over wages, hours, or HB2802 Engrossed - 2 - LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b working conditions of an employee.
"Employer" does not include HB2802 - 2 - LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b any governmental entity.
Transportation Benefits Program.
Transportation benefits program.
All covered employers shall provide at least one of the following transportation benefit programs to covered employees:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all covered employers shall provide at least one of the following transportation benefit programs to covered employees:
(2) A program under which the employer supplies a transit pass for the particular qualifying public transit requested by the covered employee or reimburses the covered HB2802 - 3 - LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b employee for payments made for the use of qualified parking.
(2) A program under which the employer supplies a transit pass for the particular qualifying public transit HB2802 Engrossed - 3 - LRB100 06136 JLS 16169 b requested by the covered employee or reimburses the covered employee for payments made for the use of qualified parking.
(b) This Act does not apply to a covered employer whose place of business is located in a zip code in which regularly-scheduled transit service does not operate.
Section 15.
List of zip codes.
The Regional Transportation Authority shall prepare a list of zip codes within the geographic area of the Authority in which regularly-scheduled transit service does not operate.
The Authority shall publish the list of zip codes on its website.
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Action History

  1. Session Sine Die

  2. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments

  3. Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments

  4. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Transportation; 014-000-000

  5. Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Daniel Biss

  6. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Transportation

  7. Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2017

  8. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments

  9. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

  10. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 26, 2017

  11. Second Reading

  12. Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading

  13. Do Pass Transportation; 014-000-000

  14. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments

  15. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

  16. Waive Posting Notice

  17. Assigned to Transportation

  18. Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 31, 2017

  19. Referred to Assignments

  20. First Reading

  21. Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

  22. Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading

  23. Arrive in Senate

  24. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz

  25. Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 062-054-000

  26. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

  27. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Martwick

  28. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate

  29. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted

  30. Second Reading - Standard Debate

  31. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. LaToya Greenwood

  32. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Halpin

  33. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lou Lang

  34. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Gregory Harris

  35. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez

  36. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley

  37. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel J. Burke

  38. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons

  39. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jay Hoffman

  40. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Frances Ann Hurley

  41. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Burke

  42. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz

  43. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Mass Transit Committee; 007-004-000

  44. Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Martwick

  45. Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

  46. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Martwick

  47. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

  48. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann M. Williams

  49. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto

  50. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin J. Moylan

  51. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr.

  52. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Arthur Turner

  53. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Fine

  54. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Mass Transit Committee

  55. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee

  56. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Theresa Mah

  57. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee

  58. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Theresa Mah

  59. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer

  60. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Silvana Tabares

  61. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper

  62. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Litesa E. Wallace

  63. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. André Thapedi

  64. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

  65. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter

  66. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

  67. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Luis Arroyo

  68. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John C. D'Amico

  69. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Zalewski

  70. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller

  71. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.

  72. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly

  73. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

  74. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

  75. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi

  76. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Christian L. Mitchell

  77. Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin

  78. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin

  79. Fiscal Note Filed

  80. Fiscal Note Requested by Rep. Tom Demmer

  81. Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Standard Debate

  82. Do Pass / Standard Debate Mass Transit Committee; 007-005-000

  83. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Al Riley

  84. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield

  85. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Thaddeus Jones

  86. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.

  87. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth

  88. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Juliana Stratton

  89. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.

  90. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis

  91. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sam Yingling

  92. Assigned to Mass Transit Committee

  93. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kathleen Willis

  94. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Scott Drury

  95. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Rita

  96. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart

  97. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel

  98. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman

  99. Referred to Rules Committee

  100. First Reading

  101. Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Theresa Mah

Sponsors

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0 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 182 not signed on · 14 voted No

Sponsors (0)

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Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (182)

182 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Third Reading

Passed 62 Yea · 54 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 334001
Democrat 29201
Republican 01200
Total 625402
% of votes cast 53%46%0%2%
How each member voted (118)
Member Party Vote
Batinick — Nay
Beiser — Yea
Bellock — Nay
Bourne — Nay
Breen — Nay
Butler — Nay
McAsey — Yea
McAuliffe — Nay
Lang — Yea
Stratton — Yea
Tabares — Yea
Harris, Gregory — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Burke, Daniel — Yea
Burke, Kelly — Yea
Jones — Yea
Conroy — Yea
Conyears-Ervin — Yea
Greenwood — Yea
Hurley — Yea
Long — Nay
Madigan — Yea
Davis — Yea
McDermed — Nay
McSweeney — Nay
Mitchell, Christian — Yea
Williams — Yea
Phillips — Nay
Sente — Nay
Skillicorn — Nay
Stewart — Nay
Harris, David — Nay
Sauer — Nay
Bennett — Nay
Thapedi — Yea
Turner — Yea
Brady — Nay
Unes — Nay
Wallace — Yea
Wehrli — Nay
Welter — Nay
Willis — Yea
Yingling — Yea
Cavaletto — Nay
Costello — Nay
Currie — Yea
D'Amico — Yea
Demmer — Nay
Drury — Yea
Flowers — Yea
Hays — Nay
Ives — Nay
Jesiel — Nay
Mitchell, Bill — Nay
Wheeler, Keith — Nay
Wheeler, Barbara — Not Voting
Olsen — Nay
Winger — Nay
Durkin — Nay
Fortner — Nay
Frese — Nay
Nekritz — Yea
Jimenez — Nay
Parkhurst — Nay
Phelps — Nay
Pritchard — Nay
Reis — Nay
Riley — Yea
Sommer — Nay
Soto — Yea
Zalewski — Yea
Andersson — Nay
Arroyo — Yea
Chapa LaVia — Yea
Anna Moeller Democrat Yea
Anthony DeLuca Democrat Yea
Camille Y. Lilly Democrat Yea
Carol Ammons Democrat Yea
Elgie R. Sims, Jr. Democrat Yea
Emanuel "Chris" Welch Democrat Yea
Fred Crespo Democrat Yea
Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. Democrat Yea
Jay Hoffman Democrat Nay
Jehan Gordon-Booth Democrat Yea
Julie A. Morrison Democrat Nay
Justin Slaughter Democrat Yea
Katie Stuart Democrat Yea
Kelly M. Cassidy Democrat Not Voting
La Shawn K. Ford Democrat Yea
Laura Fine Democrat Yea
Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. Democrat Yea
Marcus C. Evans, Jr. Democrat Yea
Martin J. Moylan Democrat Yea
Michael W. Halpin Democrat Yea
Michelle Mussman Democrat Yea
Natalie A. Manley Democrat Yea
Rita Mayfield Democrat Yea
Robert "Bob" Rita Democrat Yea
Robert F. Martwick Democrat Yea
Robyn Gabel Democrat Yea
Sara Feigenholtz Democrat Yea
Sonya M. Harper Democrat Yea
Stephanie A. Kifowit Democrat Yea
Sue Scherer Democrat Yea
Theresa Mah Democrat Yea
Will Guzzardi Democrat Yea
Brad Halbrook Republican Nay
Charles Meier Republican Nay
Christopher "C.D." Davidsmeyer Republican Nay
Dan Swanson Republican Nay
Dave Severin Republican Nay
Joe C. Sosnowski Republican Nay
John M. Cabello Republican Nay
Norine K. Hammond Republican Nay
Ryan Spain Republican Nay
Steven Reick Republican Nay
Terri Bryant Republican Nay
Tony M. McCombie Republican Nay

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 2802 do?
Creates the Transportation Benefits Program Act. Requires all covered employers to offer at least one transportation benefit program. Provides that the employer may choose between providing a program consistent with federal law that allows employees to elect to exclude from taxable wages and compensation the employee's commuting costs incurred for the purchase of a transit pass to use public transit or for the purchase of qualified parking, or a program under which the employer supplies a transit pass for the particular qualifying public transit requested by the covered employee or reimburses the covered employee for payments made for the use of qualified parking. Defines terms. Effective January 1, 2018.
Who sponsors HB 2802?
HB 2802 is sponsored by Theresa Mah (Democrat).
What is the current status of HB 2802?
This bill died with 100th Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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