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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Employment Records Act is amended by
5changing Sections 5 and 15 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 410/5)
7    Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby
8finds as follows:
9    (a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of
10State services is best facilitated by a diversified State work
11force which reflects the diversity of the tax-paying
12constituency the State work force is employed to serve.
13    (b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop
14within existing State administrative processes a comprehensive
15procedure to collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for
16State and public use, information that provides the General
17Assembly and the People of this State with adequate
18information of the number of minorities, women, persons who
19identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons
20with physical disabilities employed by State government within
21the State work force.
22    (c) To provide State officials, administrators and the
23People of the State with information to help guide efforts to

 

 

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1achieve a more diversified State work force, the total number
2of persons employed within the State work force shall be
3tabulated in a comprehensive manner to provide meaningful
4review of the number and percentage of minorities, women,
5persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming,
6and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the
7State work force.
8(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
 
9    (5 ILCS 410/15)
10    Sec. 15. Reported information.
11    (a) State agencies shall, if necessary, consult with the
12Office of the Comptroller and the Governor's Office of
13Management and Budget to confirm the accuracy of information
14required by this Act. State agencies shall collect and
15maintain information and publish reports including but not
16limited to the following information arranged in the indicated
17categories:
18        (i) the total number of persons employed by the agency
19    who are part of the State work force, as defined by this
20    Act, and the number and statistical percentage of women,
21    minorities, persons who identify persons who identify as
22    non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
23    physical disabilities employed within the agency work
24    force;
25        (ii) the total number of persons employed within the

 

 

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1    agency work force receiving levels of State remuneration
2    within incremental levels of $10,000, and the number and
3    statistical percentage of minorities, women, persons who
4    identify persons who identify as non-binary or gender
5    non-conforming, and persons with physical disabilities in
6    the agency work force receiving levels of State
7    remuneration within incremented levels of $10,000;
8        (iii) the number of open positions of employment or
9    advancement in the agency work force, reported on a fiscal
10    year basis;
11        (iv) the number and percentage of open positions of
12    employment or advancement in the agency work force filled
13    by minorities, women, persons who persons who identify as
14    non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
15    physical disabilities, reported on a fiscal year basis;
16        (v) the total number of persons employed within the
17    agency work force as professionals, and the number and
18    percentage of minorities, women, persons who identify as
19    non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
20    physical disabilities employed within the agency work
21    force as professional employees; and
22        (vi) the total number of persons employed within the
23    agency work force as contractual service employees, and
24    the number and percentage of minorities, women, persons
25    who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
26    persons with physical disabilities employed within the

 

 

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1    agency work force as contractual services employees.
2    (b) The numbers and percentages of minorities required to
3be reported by this Section shall be identified by the
4following categories:
5        (1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having
6    origins in any of the original peoples of North and South
7    America, including Central America, and who maintains
8    tribal affiliation or community attachment).
9        (2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the
10    original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the
11    Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to,
12    Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan,
13    the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam).
14        (3) Black or African American (a person having origins
15    in any of the black racial groups of Africa).
16        (4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican,
17    Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish
18    culture or origin, regardless of race).
19        (5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a
20    person having origins in any of the original peoples of
21    Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).
22    Data concerning women and persons who identify as
23non-binary or gender non-conforming shall be reported on a
24minority and nonminority basis. The numbers and percentages of
25persons with physical disabilities required to be reported
26under this Section shall be identified by categories as man,

 

 

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1woman, and persons who identify as non-binary or gender
2non-conforming male and female.
3    (c) To accomplish consistent and uniform classification
4and collection of information from each State agency, and to
5ensure full compliance and that all required information is
6provided, the Index Department of the Office of the Secretary
7of State, in consultation with the Department of Human Rights,
8the Department of Central Management Services, and the Office
9of the Comptroller, shall develop appropriate forms to be used
10by all State agencies subject to the reporting requirements of
11this Act.
12    All State agencies shall make the reports required by this
13Act using the forms developed under this subsection. The
14reports must be certified and signed by an official of the
15agency who is responsible for the information provided.
16(Source: P.A. 102-465, eff. 1-1-22.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
182025.