Full Text of HB3242 103rd General Assembly
HB3242 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB3242 Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Uniform Racial Classification Act and the Data Governance and Organization to Support Equity and Racial Justice Act. Adds "Middle Eastern or Northern African" as a racial classification for purposes of the Acts.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Uniform Racial Classification Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 5 as follows: | 6 | | (20 ILCS 50/5)
| 7 | | Sec. 5. Uniform racial classification. Notwithstanding any | 8 | | other provision of law, except as otherwise required by | 9 | | federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required | 10 | | by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or | 11 | | ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use the | 12 | | following classifications: (i) White; (ii) Black or African | 13 | | American; (iii) American Indian or Alaska Native; (iv) Asian; | 14 | | (v) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or (vi) | 15 | | Hispanic or Latino ; or (vii) Middle Eastern or Northern
| 16 | | African . | 17 | | For the purposes of this Act, "State agency" means the | 18 | | offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V | 19 | | of the Illinois Constitution, executive agencies, and | 20 | | departments, boards, commissions, and authorities under the | 21 | | Governor.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 98-982, eff. 8-18-14.) |
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| 1 | | Section 10. The Data Governance and Organization to | 2 | | Support Equity and Racial Justice Act is amended by changing | 3 | | Section 20-15 as follows: | 4 | | (20 ILCS 65/20-15)
| 5 | | Sec. 20-15. Data Governance and Organization to Support | 6 | | Equity and Racial Justice. | 7 | | (a) On or before July 1, 2022 and each July 1 thereafter, | 8 | | the Board and the Department shall report statistical data on | 9 | | the racial, ethnic, age, sex, disability status, sexual | 10 | | orientation, gender identity, and primary or preferred | 11 | | language demographics of program participants for each major | 12 | | program administered by the Board or the Department. Except as | 13 | | provided in subsection (b), when reporting the data required | 14 | | under this Section, the Board or the Department shall use the | 15 | | same racial and ethnic classifications for each program, which | 16 | | shall include, but not be limited to, the following: | 17 | | (1) American Indian and Alaska Native alone. | 18 | | (2) Asian alone. | 19 | | (3) Black or African American alone. | 20 | | (4) Hispanic or Latino of any race. | 21 | | (5) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone. | 22 | | (6) White alone. | 23 | | (7) Middle Eastern or Northern African. | 24 | | (8) (7) Some other race alone. | 25 | | (9) (8) Two or more races.
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| 1 | | The Board and the Department may further define, by rule, | 2 | | the racial and ethnic classifications, including, if | 3 | | necessary, a classification of "No Race Specified". | 4 | | (b) (c) If a program administered by the Board or the | 5 | | Department is subject to federal reporting requirements that | 6 | | include the collection and public reporting of statistical | 7 | | data on the racial and ethnic demographics of program | 8 | | participants, the Department may maintain the same racial and | 9 | | ethnic classifications used under the federal requirements if | 10 | | such classifications differ from the classifications listed in | 11 | | subsection (a). | 12 | | (c) (d) The Department of Innovation and Technology shall | 13 | | assist the Board and the Department by establishing common | 14 | | technological processes and procedures for the Board and the | 15 | | Department to: | 16 | | (1) Catalog data. | 17 | | (2) Identify similar fields in datasets. | 18 | | (3) Manage data requests. | 19 | | (4) Share data. | 20 | | (5) Collect data. | 21 | | (6) Improve and clean data. | 22 | | (7) Match data across the Board and Departments. | 23 | | (8) Develop research and analytic agendas. | 24 | | (9) Report on program participation disaggregated by | 25 | | race and ethnicity. | 26 | | (10) Evaluate equitable outcomes for underserved |
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| 1 | | populations in Illinois. | 2 | | (11) Define common roles for data management. | 3 | | (12) Ensure that all major programs can report | 4 | | disaggregated data by race, ethnicity, age, sex, | 5 | | disability status, sexual orientation, and gender | 6 | | identity, and primary or preferred language. | 7 | | The Board and the Department shall use the common | 8 | | technological processes and procedures established by the | 9 | | Department of Innovation and Technology. | 10 | | (d) (e) If the Board or the Department is unable to begin | 11 | | reporting the data required by subsection (a) by July 1, 2022, | 12 | | the Board or the Department shall state the reasons for the | 13 | | delay under the reporting requirements. | 14 | | (e) (f) By no later than March 31, 2022, the Board and the | 15 | | Department shall provide a progress report to the General | 16 | | Assembly to disclose: (i) the programs and datasets that have | 17 | | been cataloged for which race, ethnicity, age, sex, disability | 18 | | status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and primary or | 19 | | preferred language have been standardized; and (ii) to the | 20 | | extent possible, the datasets and programs that are | 21 | | outstanding for each agency and the datasets that are planned | 22 | | for the upcoming year. On or before March 31, 2023, and each | 23 | | year thereafter, the Board and the Department Departments | 24 | | shall provide an updated report to the General Assembly. | 25 | | (f) (g) By no later than October 31, 2021, the Governor's | 26 | | Office shall provide a plan to establish processes for input |
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| 1 | | from the Board and the Department into processes outlined in | 2 | | subsection (c) (b) . The plan shall incorporate ongoing efforts | 3 | | at data interoperability within the Department and the | 4 | | governance established to support the P-20 Longitudinal | 5 | | Education Data System enacted by Public Act 96-107. | 6 | | (g) (h) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to | 7 | | limit the rights granted to individuals or data sharing | 8 | | protections established under existing State and federal data | 9 | | privacy and security laws.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 101-654, eff. 3-8-21; 102-543, eff. 8-20-21; | 11 | | revised 2-4-23.)
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