Bill Text: IL SB2332 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Expands the list of targeted group member classes for the Diversity in Engineering scholarship program to include national origin, ancestry, age, and disability, and modifies the definition so that classes are included as long as the percent employed by the Department is less than the percent employed statewide according to labor statistics and not a specific plan adopted by the Department. Removes the eligibility requirement that applicants be members of a targeted group, and removes the requirement that applicants be full-time students. Directs the Department to establish a process for selecting eligible students that considers obtaining a critical mass of students in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group members. Provides that the Department may (rather than shall) adopt rules to implement and administer the scholarship program. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0585 [SB2332 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2332-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 098-0585
SB2332 Enrolled LRB098 10661 MLW 40957 b
AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
Section 2705-587 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2705/2705-587)
Sec. 2705-587. Diversity in Engineering scholarship
program.
(a) The Diversity in Engineering scholarship program is
created to assist in increasing the representation of targeted
group members among the within civil engineers employed
engineer job classifications in which targeted group members
are underutilized by the Department.
(b) For purposes of this Section:
"Targeted group member" means a person belonging to a
class of race, color, or sex, national origin, ancestry,
age, or disability whose percentage percent of the civil
engineer workforce employed by within the Department's
professional classification which includes civil engineers
is less than the percentage that class's percent of the
statewide labor market for civil engineers such job
activities as recorded in determined by the Department's

review of statewide labor statistics annual affirmative
action plan.
"Eligible student" means a person targeted group
member who: (i) is an Illinois resident at the time of
application for a scholarship under the Program
established by this Section; (ii) is enrolled full-time at
any Illinois college or university in any program leading
toward a degree in civil engineering; (iii) agrees to
conditions required by the Department, including the
obligation to work for the Department after graduation if a
position is offered for at least one year for each academic
year the student receives a scholarship.
(c) The Department, subject to appropriation, shall award
scholarships to up to 20 selected eligible students each year,
unless no targeted group members are identified by the
Department Department's affirmative action plan. The
Department shall establish a process for selecting eligible
students, which considers obtaining a critical mass of students
in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group
members. Each scholarship Scholarships issued pursuant to this
Section shall not exceed $7,500 per academic year.
(d) The Department shall adopt promulgate rules to
implement and administer the scholarship program created by
this Section.
(Source: P.A. 97-288, eff. 1-1-12.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

becoming law.