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90_HR0495
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Human Rights is
3 empowered by the Illinois Human Rights Act to investigate
4 complaints of discrimination made by residents of Illinois;
5 and
6 WHEREAS, In discharging its statutory duties, the
7 Illinois Department of Human Rights annually receives
8 thousands of inquiries; and
9 WHEREAS, Only some of the inquiries made to the Illinois
10 Department of Human Rights result in complaints brought to
11 the Human Rights Commission; and
12 WHEREAS, Documentation and empirical analysis of all
13 inquiries received by the Department could yield data useful
14 to the Department and the General Assembly and could guide
15 policy-making, intergovernmental cooperation, and the
16 assessment of the impact of proposed amendments to the
17 Illinois Human Rights Act; therefore be it
18 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
20 urge the Illinois Department of Human Rights to develop and
21 implement a demonstration project to document and analyze
22 inquiries in each category currently named in the Illinois
23 Human Rights Act and in up to four additional categories not
24 included in the Illinois Human Rights Act, with the number
25 and type of additional categories to be determined by the
26 Department; and be it further
27 RESOLVED, That we urge the Illinois Department of Human
28 Rights to submit an interim report regarding the
29 demonstration project to the General Assembly no later than
30 February 15, 1999 and a final report regarding the
31 demonstration project to the General Assembly no later than
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1 June 30, 1999.