5 ILCS 410/5

(5 ILCS 410/5)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-304)

Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby finds as follows:

(a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of State services is best facilitated by a diversified State work force which reflects the diversity of the tax-paying constituency the State work force is employed to serve.

(b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop within existing State administrative processes a comprehensive procedure to collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for State and public use, information that provides the General Assembly and the People of this State with adequate information of the number of minorities, women, and persons with physical disabilities employed by State government within the State work force.

(c) To provide State officials, administrators and the People of the State with information to help guide efforts to achieve a more diversified State work force, the total number of persons employed within the State work force shall be tabulated in a comprehensive manner to provide meaningful review of the number and percentage of minorities, women, and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the State work force.

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-304)

Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby finds as follows:

(a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of State services is best facilitated by a diversified State work force which reflects the diversity of the tax-paying constituency the State work force is employed to serve.

(b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop within existing State administrative processes a comprehensive procedure to collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for State and public use, information that provides the General Assembly and the People of this State with adequate information of the number of minorities, women, persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with physical disabilities employed by State government within the State work force.

(c) To provide State officials, administrators and the People of the State with information to help guide efforts to achieve a more diversified State work force, the total number of persons employed within the State work force shall be tabulated in a comprehensive manner to provide meaningful review of the number and percentage of minorities, women, persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the State work force.

(Source: P.A. 103-304, eff. 7-1-25.)