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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
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| 5 | | Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing |
| 6 | | Section 2705-587 as follows:
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| 7 | | (20 ILCS 2705/2705-587) |
| 8 | | Sec. 2705-587. Diversity in Engineering scholarship |
| 9 | | program. |
| 10 | | (a) The Diversity in Engineering scholarship program is |
| 11 | | created to assist in increasing the representation of targeted |
| 12 | | group members among the within civil engineers employed |
| 13 | | engineer job classifications in which targeted group members |
| 14 | | are underutilized by the Department. |
| 15 | | (b) For purposes of this Section: |
| 16 | | "Targeted group member" means a person belonging to a |
| 17 | | class of race, color, or sex, national origin, ancestry, |
| 18 | | age, or disability whose percentage percent of the civil |
| 19 | | engineer workforce employed by within the Department's |
| 20 | | professional classification which includes civil engineers |
| 21 | | is less than the percentage that class's percent of the |
| 22 | | statewide labor market for civil engineers such job |
| 23 | | activities as recorded in determined by the Department's |
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| 1 | | review of statewide labor statistics annual affirmative |
| 2 | | action plan. |
| 3 | | "Eligible student" means a person targeted group |
| 4 | | member who: (i) is an Illinois resident at the time of |
| 5 | | application for a scholarship under the Program |
| 6 | | established by this Section; (ii) is enrolled full-time at |
| 7 | | any Illinois college or university in any program leading |
| 8 | | toward a degree in civil engineering; (iii) agrees to |
| 9 | | conditions required by the Department, including the |
| 10 | | obligation to work for the Department after graduation if a |
| 11 | | position is offered for at least one year for each academic |
| 12 | | year the student receives a scholarship. |
| 13 | | (c) The Department, subject to appropriation, shall award |
| 14 | | scholarships to up to 20 selected eligible students each year, |
| 15 | | unless no targeted group members are identified by the |
| 16 | | Department Department's affirmative action plan. The |
| 17 | | Department shall establish a process for selecting eligible |
| 18 | | students, which considers obtaining a critical mass of students |
| 19 | | in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group |
| 20 | | members. Each scholarship Scholarships issued pursuant to this |
| 21 | | Section shall not exceed $7,500 per academic year. |
| 22 | | (d) The Department shall adopt promulgate rules to |
| 23 | | implement and administer the scholarship program created by |
| 24 | | this Section.
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| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 97-288, eff. 1-1-12.)
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| 26 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |