Bill Text: IL SR1761 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Urges the Rauner administration to comply with the statutory goal of 20% participation with minority and women-owned firms, particularly as it relates to professional services and legal services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-31 - Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) [SR1761 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SR1761-Enrolled.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 1761
(As Amended by Senate Amendment No. 2)
WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has had a long-standing
statutory goal of spending 20% of all procurement dollars on
minority and women-owned businesses; and
WHEREAS, Investing in minority and women-owned businesses
is a central economic development strategy for the State to
ensure the businesses that prosper from the State's need for
goods and services reflects the diversity of the entire State;
and
WHEREAS, Legal services is one of the components that the
State's statutory goal for spending 20% for minority and
women-owned businesses apply towards; and
WHEREAS, The last year where full data is available on
actual spending with minority and women-owned businesses is
FY2015; and
WHEREAS, In FY2015, the State spent more than $35,000,000
on outside law firms in legal services; and
WHEREAS, Only 4% of the State's legal services in FY15 were
with minority and women-owned firms; and

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WHEREAS, The total spent on African-American owned law
firms in FY15 was under $200,000, which is significantly less
than 1% of the total spent on legal services the entire fiscal
year; and
WHEREAS, Governor Rauner's administration was only
responsible for half of the legal services spent in FY15 as the
Governor was not inaugurated until the middle of that fiscal
year; and
WHEREAS, While complete data for FY16 is not yet available,
there have been a series of procurements for legal services
that did not include any goal for minority or women-owned
firms, including one posted April 8th for a Swaps Bond Counsel
for the Governor's Office of Management and Budget; and
WHEREAS, Unless the Rauner administration makes a
significant effort to increase the participation of minority
and women-owned firms in legal spending, the administration is
likely on track to dramatically fall short of the statutory
goal of 20% participation; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Rauner
administration is urged to comply with the statutory goal of

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20% participation with minority and women-owned firms, as well
as the statutory goal for veteran-owned firms, particularly as
it relates to professional services and legal services; and be
it further
RESOLVED, That the Rauner administration is urged to make
every effort for FY16 to satisfy the 20% goal for participation
with minority and women-owned firms in professional services as
well as the statutory goal for veteran-owned firms, as that is
the first full fiscal year completely administered by the
Rauner administration; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
delivered to Governor Rauner.