Bill Text: IL SB2968 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that reports issued under the provisions shall be issued by October 31 of each year (rather than September 30 of each year). Provides that the Department of Human Services, under the direction of the Office of the Governor, shall establish, by rule, demographic classifications for each reporting category, including race and ethnicity, age, sex, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and primary or preferred language. Provides that the project implementation team shall include a representative from the Department of Human Services. Removes a provision concerning programs administered by the State Board of Education or specified Departments that serves and collects data from individuals younger than 18 years old or adults who are receiving services due to having been victims of domestic violence. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Enrolled) 2024-05-23 - Passed Both Houses [SB2968 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2968-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Data Governance and Organization to Support
Equity and Racial Justice Act is amended by changing Section
20-15 as follows:
(20 ILCS 65/20-15)
Sec. 20-15. Data governance and organization to support
equity and racial justice.
(a) By October 31 of each year On or before July 1, 2022
and each July 1 thereafter, the Board and the Department shall
issue a report, for the prior State fiscal year, that sets out
de-identified statistical data related to on the racial,
ethnic, age, sex, disability status, sexual orientation,
gender identity, and primary or preferred language
demographics of program participants for each major program
administered by the Board or the Department, except as
provided in subsection (a-5). The Department of Human
Services, under the direction of the Office of the Governor,
shall establish, by rule, demographic classifications for each
reporting category, including race and ethnicity, age, sex,
disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and
primary or preferred language. Except as provided in

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subsection (b), when reporting the data required under this
Section for each program, the Board or the Department shall
use the classifications established by the Department of Human
Services.
The Office of the Governor shall review the demographic
classifications every 5 years after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly. If the Office of
the Governor determines that changes to the classifications
are necessary, the Department of Human Services shall update
the classifications, as directed by the Office of the
Governor. the same racial and ethnic classifications for each
program, which shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:
(1) American Indian and Alaska Native alone.
(2) Asian alone.
(3) Black or African American alone.
(4) Hispanic or Latino of any race.
(5) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone.
(6) White alone.
(7) Middle Eastern or North African.
(8) Some other race alone.
(9) Two or more races.
The Board and the Department may further define, by rule,
the racial and ethnic classifications, including, if
necessary, a classification of "No Race Specified".
(a-5) In relation to major program participants, the Board

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shall not be required to collect personally identifiable
information and report statistical data on the categories of
sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity unless required
for federal reporting. The Board shall make available reports
on its Internet website, posted where other mandated reports
are posted, of statistical data on sex, sexual orientation,
and gender identity demographics through anonymous surveys or
other methods as age and developmentally appropriate.
(b) A If a program administered by the Board or the
Department is exempted from the reporting requirements
described in subsection (a) if:
(1) the program is subject to federal reporting
requirements that include the collection and public
reporting of statistical data on the demographic
categories required by this Act; and
(2) the federal reporting requirements use different
classifications for the reporting of demographic
categories than the classifications established by the
Department of Human Services.
The program shall report on any demographic categories
described in subsection (a) that are not included in the
federal report racial and ethnic demographics of program
participants, the Department may maintain the same racial and
ethnic classifications used under the federal requirements if
such classifications differ from the classifications listed in
subsection (a).

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(b-5) If a program administered by the Board or the
Department serves and collects data regarding individuals
younger than 18 years old, the program is exempt from the
sexual orientation and gender identity demographic collection
requirements described in subsection (a).
(b-7) The Office of the Governor shall establish a project
implementation team to oversee the implementation of this Act
consisting of one representative from each of the following:
(1) the Office of the Governor;
(2) the Department of Innovation and Technology;
(3) the Department of Human Services; and
(4) the Governor's Office of Management and Budget.
(c) The Department of Innovation and Technology, in
conjunction with the Office of the Governor, shall assist the
Board and the Department by identifying and providing advice
on establishing common technological processes and procedures
for the Board and the Department to:
(1) Catalog relevant demographic data and share the
resultant metadata.
(2) Identify similar fields in data sets datasets.
(3) Manage data requests.
(4) Share data.
(5) Collect data.
(6) Improve and clean data.
(7) Match data across the Board and Departments.
(8) Develop research and analytic agendas.

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(9) Report on program participation disaggregated by
race and ethnicity.
(10) Evaluate equitable outcomes for underserved
populations in Illinois.
(11) Define common roles for data management.
(12) Ensure that all major programs can report
disaggregated data by race, ethnicity, age, sex,
disability status, sexual orientation, and gender
identity, and primary or preferred language.
The Board and the Department shall use the common
technological processes and procedures established by the
Department of Innovation and Technology.
(d) If the Board or the Department is unable to begin
reporting the collected data as described in required by
subsection (a) by October 31 immediately following the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly July 1, 2022, the Board or the Department shall state
the reasons for the delay or inability to collect the
particular data set for that program under the reporting
requirements described in subsection (a).
(e) By no later than March 31, 2022, the Board and the
Department shall provide a progress report to the General
Assembly to disclose: (i) the programs and data sets datasets
that have been cataloged for which race, ethnicity, age, sex,
disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and
primary or preferred language have been standardized; and (ii)

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