Illinois Senate Bill 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Preferred Terminology in Government Documents Act. Provides that all State and local government, statutes, codes, rules, regulations, and other official documents enacted on and after the effective date of this Act are required to use the term "Asian" when referring to persons of Asian descent. Provides that the term "Oriental" is prohibited. Provides that the General Assembly urges all State and local entities to review their statutes, codes, rules, regulations, and other official documents and revise them to omit use of the term "Oriental" when referring to persons of Asian descent. Provides findings.

GOVT DOCS-TERMINOLOGY

Sen. Ram Villivalam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2020-05-15	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 31, 2020
2020-05-07	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 29, 2020
2020-04-30	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 22, 2020
2020-04-23	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 15, 2020
2020-04-12	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2020-03-25	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 7, 2020
2020-02-05	Senate	Sponsor Removed Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2020-02-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2020-02-04	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 5, 2020
2020-02-04	Senate	Approved for Consideration Assignments
2019-04-12	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-04-04	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 9, 2019
2019-04-04	Senate	Second Reading
2019-03-20	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 21, 2019
2019-03-20	Senate	Do Pass State Government; 007-000-000
2019-03-13	Senate	Postponed - State Government
2019-03-06	Senate	Postponed - State Government
2019-02-06	Senate	Assigned to State Government
2019-01-31	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-01-31	Senate	First Reading
2019-01-31	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=245&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB0245.htm