Bill Text: IL HB2669 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Diversity Disclosures Mechanisms for Vendors Act. Defines terms. Authorizes the Department of Central Management Services to create and administer a diversity reporting initiative. Permits the Department to produce a front-end report and supplemental report requesting the racial and ethnic background of all employees employed by any vendor. Requires vendors to complete and submit to the Department the front-end report at the time of the execution of the contract, and the supplemental report after the completion of the performance required under the contract.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2669 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB2669-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB2669 Introduced , by Rep. Kenneth Dunkin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Diversity Disclosures Mechanisms for Vendors Act. Defines relevant terms. Authorizes the Department of Central Management Services to create and administer a diversity reporting initiative. Permits the Department to produce a front-end report and supplemental report requesting the racial and ethic background of all employees employed by any vendor contracted to conduct business with the State. Requires vendors to complete and submit to the Department the front-end report at the time of the execution of the contract, and the supplemental report after the completion of the performance required under the contract.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Diversity Disclosures Mechanisms for Vendors Act.
Section 5. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act:
(a) "Minority person" means a person who is a citizen or
lawful permanent resident of the United States and who is any
of the following:
(1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having
origins in any of the original peoples of North and South
America, including Central America, and who maintains
tribal affiliation or community attachment).
(2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the
Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to,
Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan,
the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam).
(3) Black or African-American (a person having origins
in any of the black racial groups of Africa). Terms such as
"Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black or
African-American".
(4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican,

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Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish
culture or origin, regardless of race).
(5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a person
having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii,
Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).
(b) "Female" shall mean a person who is a citizen or lawful
permanent resident of the United States and who is of the
female gender.
(c) "Person with a disability" means a person who is a
citizen or lawful resident of the United States and is a person
qualifying as being disabled under this subsection. "Disabled"
means a severe physical or mental disability that:
(1) results from: amputation, arthritis, autism,
blindness, burn injury, cancer, cerebral palsy, Crohn's
disease, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart
disease, hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary
dysfunction, an intellectual disability, mental illness,
multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculoskeletal
disorders, neurological disorders, including stroke and
epilepsy, paraplegia, quadriplegia and other spinal cord
conditions, sickle cell anemia, ulcerative colitis,
specific learning disabilities, or end stage renal failure
disease; and
(2) substantially limits one or more of the person's
major life activities.
Another disability or combination of disabilities may also be

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considered as a severe disability for the purposes of paragraph
(1) if it is determined by an evaluation of rehabilitation
potential to cause a comparable degree of substantial
functional limitation similar to the specific list of
disabilities listed in paragraph (1).
(d) "Vendor" means any individual or entity doing business
with, or providing services to, the State or any unit of local
government.
Section 10. Purpose and reporting requirements. The
General Assembly declares that it is the public policy of the
State to promote and encourage the open access in the awarding
of State contracts to businesses with diverse hiring practices
and to minorities, within the definition of subsection (a) of
Section 5. For this purpose, the Department shall create and
administer a diversity reporting initiative for all vendors.
The Department shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes of
this Act, which shall require all vendors to report to the
Department.
(a) The Department shall produce two forms requesting
demographic information of all employees employed by vendors: a
front-end report of employees, and a supplemental report of
employees. The vendor shall accurately report and file both the
front-end report and the supplemental report with the
Department.
(b) All vendors shall, at the time of executing the

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contract, complete the front-end form and submit the form to
the Department. The vendor shall disclose to the Department who
is employed by the vendor and who is expected to participate in
the performance of the contract. All vendors must provide the
following information on all of its employees, including
management and staff, within the front-end report:
(1) racial and ethnic background;
(2) position within the company; and
(3) title.
(c) Within 30 days after the completion of performance
under the contract, the vendor shall file with the Department a
supplemental report stating:
(1) the total time the vendor worked, per the terms of
the contract;
(2) the racial and ethnic background of each employee,
including management and staff, who is employed by the
vendor and who participated in the performance required
under the contract; and
(3) The amount of time spent by each such employee to
work on the performance required under the contract.