Bill Text: IL SB3531 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Provides that the term "administrative housing agency" means either the Illinois Housing Development Authority, an agency of the City of Chicago, or the Chicago Board of Education (rather than the Authority or an agency of the City of Chicago). Provides that the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Education (rather than the City of Chicago) shall receive 21.5% and 3%, respectively (rather than 24.5%), of the total tax credits authorized for each fiscal year under the Illinois Income Tax Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1341 [SB3531 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3531-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
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
African American Employment Plan Act.
Section 5. Purposes. The purposes of this Act are as
follows:
(a) improve the delivery of State services to Illinois'
African Americans by increasing the number of African American
State employees and the number of African American State
employees serving in supervisory, technical, professional, and
managerial positions;
(b) identify State agencies' staffing needs and
qualification requirements;
(c) track hiring practices and promotions of African
Americans employed by State agencies;
(d) increase the number of African Americans employed by
State agencies;
(e) increase the number of African American State employees
who are promoted;
(f) assist State agencies to meet their goals established
pursuant to the African American Employment Plan; and
(g) establish the African American Employment Plan

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Advisory Council.
Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Department" means the Department of Central Management
Services.
"State agency" or "agency", whether used in the singular or
plural, means all departments, officers, commissions, boards,
institutions, and bodies politic and corporate of the State.
The term, however, does not mean the judicial branch,
including, without limitation, the several courts of the State,
the offices of the clerk of the supreme court and the clerks of
the appellate court, and the Administrative Office of the
Illinois Courts, nor does it mean the legislature or its
committees or commissions.
Section 15. African American Employment Plan.
(a) The Department shall develop and implement plans to
increase the number of African Americans employed by State
agencies and the number of African Americans employed by State
agencies at supervisory, technical, professional, and
managerial levels.
(b) The Department shall prepare and revise annually an
African American Employment Plan in consultation with
individuals and organizations knowledgeable on this subject
and with the African American Employment Plan Advisory Council.
The Department shall report to the General Assembly by February

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1 of each year, beginning with February 1, 2011, each State
agency's activities that implement the African American
Employment Plan.
(c) The Department shall monitor compliance with the
African American Employment Plan and may assign that duty to
the Department's staff or to a full-time African American
employment coordinator. Nothing in this Act mandates the
Department to hire additional staff.
Section 20. State agency affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity goals.
(a) Each State agency shall implement strategies and
programs in accordance with the African American Employment
Plan to increase the number of African Americans employed by
that State agency and the number of African Americans employed
by that State agency at supervisory, technical, professional,
and managerial levels.
(b) Each State agency shall report annually to the
Department and the Department of Human Rights, in a format
prescribed by the Department, all of the agency's activities in
implementing the African American Employment Plan. Each
agency's annual report shall include reports or information
related to the agency's African American employment strategies
and programs that the agency has received from the Department,
the Department of Human Rights, or the Auditor General,
pursuant to their periodic review responsibilities; findings

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made by the Governor in his or her report to the General
Assembly; assessments of service needs based upon the agency's
service populations; information on the agency's studies and
monitoring success concerning the number of African Americans
employed by the agency at the supervisory, technical,
professional, and managerial levels and any increases in those
categories from the prior year; and information concerning the
agency's African American employment budget allocations.
(c) The Department shall assist State agencies required to
establish preparation and promotion training programs under
subsection (H) of Section 7-105 of the Illinois Human Rights
Act for failure to meet their affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity goals. The Department shall survey
State agencies to identify effective existing training
programs and shall serve as a resource to other State agencies.
The Department shall assist agencies in the development and
modification of training programs to enable them to meet their
affirmative action and equal employment opportunity goals and
shall provide information regarding other existing training
and educational resources, such as the Upward Mobility Program,
the Illinois Institute for Training and Development, the
Central Management Services Training Center, Executive
Recruitment Internships, and Graduate Public Service
Internships.
Section 25. African American Employment Plan Advisory

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Council.
(a) The African American Employment Plan Advisory Council
is created, consisting of 11 members, each of whom shall be an
African American subject matter expert, appointed by the
Governor.
(b) All members of the African American Employment Plan
Advisory Council shall serve without compensation, but shall be
reimbursed for their reasonable and necessary expenses from
funds appropriated for that purpose.
(c) The African American Employment Plan Advisory Council
shall examine: (1) the prevalence and impact of African
Americans employed by State government; (2) the barriers faced
by African Americans who seek employment or promotional
opportunities in State government; and (3) possible incentives
that could be offered to foster the employment of and the
promotion of African Americans in State government.
(d) The Council shall meet quarterly to provide
consultation to State agencies and the African American
Employment Coordinator.
(e) The African American Employment Plan Advisory Council
shall receive administrative support from the Department of
Central Management Services and shall issue an annual report of
its activities each year on or before February 1, beginning
with February 1, 2012.
Section 30. Collective bargaining agreements. The rights

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of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement shall
not be affected by this Act.
Section 35. The State Employment Records Act is amended by
changing Section 20 as follows:
(5 ILCS 410/20)
Sec. 20. Reports. State agencies shall collect, classify,
maintain, and report all information required by this Act on a
fiscal year basis. Agencies shall file, as public information
and by January 1, 1993 and each year thereafter, a copy of all
reports required by this Act with the Office of the Secretary
of State, and shall submit an annual report to the Governor.
Each agency's annual report shall include a description of
the agency's activities in implementing the State Hispanic
Employment Plan and the bilingual employment plan in accordance
with the reporting requirements developed by the Department of
Central Management Services pursuant to Section 405-125 of the
Civil Administrative Code.
In addition to submitting the agency work force report,
each executive branch constitutional officer, each institution
of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Illinois
Board of Higher Education, each community college under the
jurisdiction of the Illinois Community College Board, and the
Illinois Toll Highway Authority shall report to the General
Assembly by February 1 of each year its activities implementing

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strategies and programs, and its progress, in the hiring and
promotion of Hispanics and bilingual persons at supervisory,
technical, professional, and managerial levels, including
assessments of bilingual service needs and information
received from the Auditor General pursuant to its periodic
review responsibilities.
(Source: P.A. 94-597, eff. 1-1-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.