Bill Text: IL HB2297 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that State agencies when collecting and reporting data on employment records must include specified data on persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming. Effective July 1, 2025.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0304 [HB2297 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2297-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that State agencies when collecting and reporting data on employment records must include specified data on persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming. Effective July 1, 2025.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0304 [HB2297 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2297-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The State Employment Records Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Sections 5 and 15 as follows:
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6 | (5 ILCS 410/5)
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7 | Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby
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8 | finds as follows:
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9 | (a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | State
services is best facilitated by a diversified State work | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | force which
reflects the diversity of the tax-paying | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | constituency the State work force
is employed to serve.
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13 | (b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | within
existing State administrative processes a comprehensive | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | procedure to
collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | State and public use,
information that provides the General | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Assembly and the People of this State
with adequate | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | information of the number of minorities, women, persons who | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | with physical disabilities employed by State government within | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | the State work force.
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22 | (c) To provide State officials, administrators and the | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | People
of the State with information to help guide efforts to |
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1 | achieve a more
diversified State work force, the total number | ||||||
2 | of persons employed within
the State work force shall be | ||||||
3 | tabulated in a comprehensive manner to
provide meaningful | ||||||
4 | review of the number and percentage of minorities, women,
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5 | persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, | ||||||
6 | and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the | ||||||
7 | State work force.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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9 | (5 ILCS 410/15)
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10 | Sec. 15. Reported information.
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11 | (a) State agencies shall, if necessary, consult with the | ||||||
12 | Office of the
Comptroller and the
Governor's Office of | ||||||
13 | Management and Budget to confirm the accuracy of information
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14 | required by this Act. State agencies shall collect and | ||||||
15 | maintain information
and publish reports including but not | ||||||
16 | limited to the following information
arranged in the indicated | ||||||
17 | categories:
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18 | (i) the total number of persons employed by the agency | ||||||
19 | who are part of
the State work force, as defined by this | ||||||
20 | Act, and the number and statistical
percentage of women, | ||||||
21 | minorities, persons who identify persons who identify as | ||||||
22 | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with | ||||||
23 | physical disabilities employed
within the agency work | ||||||
24 | force;
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25 | (ii) the total number of persons employed within the |
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1 | agency work force
receiving levels of State remuneration | ||||||
2 | within incremental levels of
$10,000, and the number and | ||||||
3 | statistical percentage of minorities, women, persons who | ||||||
4 | identify persons who identify as non-binary or gender | ||||||
5 | non-conforming, and
persons with physical disabilities in | ||||||
6 | the agency work force receiving levels of
State | ||||||
7 | remuneration within incremented levels of $10,000;
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8 | (iii) the number of open positions of employment or | ||||||
9 | advancement in the
agency work force, reported on a fiscal | ||||||
10 | year basis;
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11 | (iv) the number and percentage of open positions of | ||||||
12 | employment or
advancement in the agency work force filled | ||||||
13 | by minorities, women, persons who persons who identify as | ||||||
14 | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
persons with | ||||||
15 | physical disabilities, reported on a fiscal year basis;
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16 | (v) the total number of persons employed within the | ||||||
17 | agency work force
as professionals, and the number and | ||||||
18 | percentage of minorities, women, persons who identify as | ||||||
19 | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
persons with | ||||||
20 | physical disabilities employed within the agency work | ||||||
21 | force as
professional employees; and
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22 | (vi) the total number of persons employed within the | ||||||
23 | agency work force
as contractual service employees, and | ||||||
24 | the number and percentage of minorities,
women, persons | ||||||
25 | who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and | ||||||
26 | persons with physical disabilities employed within the |
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1 | agency work force as
contractual services employees.
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2 | (b) The numbers and percentages of minorities required to | ||||||
3 | be reported by
this Section shall be identified by the | ||||||
4 | following categories: | ||||||
5 | (1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having | ||||||
6 | origins in any of the original peoples of North and South | ||||||
7 | America, including Central America, and who maintains | ||||||
8 | tribal affiliation or community attachment). | ||||||
9 | (2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the | ||||||
10 | original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the | ||||||
11 | Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
12 | Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, | ||||||
13 | the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam). | ||||||
14 | (3) Black or African American (a person having origins | ||||||
15 | in any of the black racial groups of Africa). | ||||||
16 | (4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican, | ||||||
17 | Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish | ||||||
18 | culture or origin, regardless of race). | ||||||
19 | (5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a | ||||||
20 | person having origins in any of the original peoples of | ||||||
21 | Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands). | ||||||
22 | Data concerning women and persons who identify as | ||||||
23 | non-binary or gender non-conforming shall be
reported on a | ||||||
24 | minority and nonminority basis.
The numbers and percentages of | ||||||
25 | persons with physical disabilities required to be
reported | ||||||
26 | under this Section shall be identified by categories as man, |
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1 | woman, and persons who identify as non-binary or gender | ||||||
2 | non-conforming male and
female .
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3 | (c) To accomplish consistent and uniform classification | ||||||
4 | and collection of
information from each State agency, and to | ||||||
5 | ensure full compliance and that all
required information is | ||||||
6 | provided, the Index Department of the Office of the
Secretary | ||||||
7 | of State, in consultation with the Department of Human Rights, | ||||||
8 | the
Department of Central Management Services, and the Office | ||||||
9 | of the Comptroller,
shall develop appropriate forms to be used | ||||||
10 | by all State agencies subject to the
reporting requirements of | ||||||
11 | this Act.
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12 | All State agencies shall make the reports required by this | ||||||
13 | Act using the
forms developed under this subsection. The | ||||||
14 | reports must be certified and
signed by an official of the | ||||||
15 | agency who is responsible for the information
provided.
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16 | (Source: P.A. 102-465, eff. 1-1-22 .)
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17 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
18 | 2025.
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