Full Text of SB0262 100th General Assembly
SB0262sam006 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr. Filed: 5/9/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 262
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 262, AS AMENDED, | 3 | | with reference to page and line numbers of Senate Amendment No. | 4 | | 4, as follows:
| 5 | | on page 85, line 22, by replacing "construction" with | 6 | | " construction "; and | 7 | | on page 85, line 24, by deleting " completed "; and | 8 | | on page 86, line 1, by replacing " 5 10 " with "10 calendar "; and | 9 | | on page 112, line 2, after " Council ", by inserting | 10 | | " identifying "; and | 11 | | by replacing line 11 on page 112 through line 13 on page 114 | 12 | | with the following: |
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| 1 | | "(30 ILCS 575/8h new) | 2 | | Sec. 8h. Encouragement for telecom and communications | 3 | | entities to submit supplier diversity reports. | 4 | | (1) The following entities that do business in Illinois or | 5 | | serve Illinois customers shall be subject to this Section: | 6 | | (i) all local exchange telecommunications carriers | 7 | | with at least 35,000 subscriber access lines; | 8 | | (ii) cable and video providers, as defined in Section | 9 | | 21-20l of the Public Utilities Act; | 10 | | (iii) interconnected VoIP providers, as defined in | 11 | | Section 13-235 of the Public Utilities Act; | 12 | | (iv) wireless service providers; | 13 | | (v) broadband internet access services providers; and | 14 | | (vi) any other entity that provides messaging, voice, | 15 | | or video services via the Internet or a social media | 16 | | platform. | 17 | | (2) Each entity subject to this Section may submit to the | 18 | | Illinois Commerce Commission and the Business Enterprise | 19 | | Council an annual report by April 15, 20l8, and every April 15 | 20 | | thereafter, which provides, for the previous calendar year, | 21 | | information and data on diversity goals, and progress toward | 22 | | achieving those goals, by certified businesses owned by | 23 | | minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and | 24 | | service-disabled veterans, provided that if the entity does not | 25 | | track such information and data for businesses owned by | 26 | | service-disabled veterans, the entity may provide information |
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| 1 | | and data for businesses owned by veterans. | 2 | | The diversity report shall include the following: | 3 | | (i) Overall annual spending on all such certified | 4 | | businesses. | 5 | | (ii) A narrative description of the entity's supplier | 6 | | diversity goals and plans for meeting those goals. | 7 | | (iii) The entity's best estimate of its annual spending | 8 | | in professional services and spending with certified | 9 | | businesses owned by minorities, women, persons with | 10 | | disabilities, and service-disabled veterans (or veterans, | 11 | | if the reporting entity does not track spending with | 12 | | service-disabled veterans), including, but not limited to, | 13 | | the following professional services categories: | 14 | | accounting; architecture and engineering; consulting; | 15 | | information technology; insurance; financial, legal, and | 16 | | marketing services; and other professional services. The | 17 | | diversity report shall also include the entity's overall | 18 | | annual spending in the listed professional service | 19 | | categories. For the diversity reports due on April 15, 2018 | 20 | | and April 15, 2019, the information on annual spending with | 21 | | certified businesses for professional services required by | 22 | | this Section may be provided for all professional services | 23 | | on an aggregated basis. | 24 | | (iv) Beginning with the diversity report due on April | 25 | | 15, 2020, the total number and percentage of women and | 26 | | minorities that provided services for each construction |
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| 1 | | project in the State. | 2 | | An entity subject to this Section which is part of an | 3 | | affiliated group of entities may provide information for the | 4 | | affiliated group as a whole. | 5 | | (3) Any entity that is subject to this Section that does | 6 | | not submit a report shall be reported by the Business | 7 | | Enterprise Council to each chief procurement officer. Upon | 8 | | receiving a report from the Business Enterprise Council, the | 9 | | chief procurement officer shall prohibit any entities that do | 10 | | not submit a report from bidding on State contracts for a | 11 | | period of one year beginning the first day of the following | 12 | | fiscal year and post on its respective bulletin the names of | 13 | | all entities that fail to comply with the provisions of this | 14 | | Section. | 15 | | (4) A vendor may appeal any of the actions taken pursuant | 16 | | to this Section in the same manner as a vendor denied | 17 | | certification, by following the appeal procedures in the | 18 | | administrative rules created pursuant to this Act. ".
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