Bill Text: IL SB3425 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. In provisions requiring State agencies and public institutions of higher education to encourage prime vendors to amend a contract with no contract goal, provides that, if a prime vendor is not willing to amend a contract to include the recommended goal of the State agency or public institution of higher education, the contract shall be rebid immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-25 - Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 [SB3425 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3425-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3425 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 575/8i
Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. In provisions requiring State agencies and public institutions of higher education to encourage prime vendors to amend a contract with no contract goal, provides that, if a prime vendor is not willing to amend a contract to include the recommended goal of the State agency or public institution of higher education, the contract shall be rebid immediately.
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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 5. The Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women,
and Persons with Disabilities Act is amended by changing
Section 8i as follows:
(30 ILCS 575/8i)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on June 30, 2029)
Sec. 8i. Renewals. State agencies and public institutions
of higher education shall:
(a) review all existing contracts prior to the time of
renewal to determine if the contract goal is being met by
the prime vendor;
(b) review all existing contracts prior to the time of
renewal to determine if the contract goal should be
increased based upon market conditions and availability of
firms certified pursuant to this Act;
(c) review existing contracts with no contract goal to
determine if a goal can be established; if it is
determined that a contract goal can be established, the
State agency or public institution of higher education
shall encourage the prime vendor to amend the contract to
include the contract goal; if a prime vendor is not

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