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Public Act 098-0585
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
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Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing |
Section 2705-587 as follows:
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(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 |
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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.
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(Source: P.A. 97-288, eff. 1-1-12.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |