Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB3627

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3627

Introduced 2/18/2025, by Rep. Justin Slaughter

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 50/5

Amends the Uniform Racial Classification Act. Provides that whenever a State agency is required by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use Asiatic or Moorish as a racial classification. Provides that a State agency is not required to use that classification for reporting workforce or hiring data until after July 1, 2026.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Uniform Racial Classification Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(20 ILCS 50/5)

Sec. 5. Uniform racial classification.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as otherwise required by federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use the following classifications: (i) White; (ii) Black or African American; (iii) American Indian or Alaska Native; (iv) Asian; (v) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; (vi) Hispanic or Latino; or (vii) Middle Eastern or North African; or (viii) Asiatic or Moorish..

(b) A State agency is not required to use the classification added to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly for reporting workforce or hiring data until after July 1, 2025.

(b-5) A State agency is not required to use the classification added to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly for reporting workforce or hiring data until after July 1, 2026.

(c) For the purposes of this Act, "State agency" means the offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution, executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and authorities under the Governor.

(Source: P.A. 103-414, eff. 1-1-24.)