Bill Text: IL HB3768 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts provisions of the engrossed bill. Provides that a State agency is not required to use the Middle Eastern or North African classification for reporting workforce or hiring data until after July 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-04 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0414 [HB3768 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3768-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3768 Introduced , by Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 50/5
Amends the Uniform Racial Classification Act. Provides that when a State agency is required by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or ethnic classifications, that State agency shall also include people who are Middle Eastern or North African.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Uniform Racial Classification Act is
amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(20 ILCS 50/5)
Sec. 5. Uniform racial classification. Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, except as otherwise required by
federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required
by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or
ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use the
following classifications: (i) White; (ii) Black or African
American; (iii) American Indian or Alaska Native; (iv) Asian;
(v) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or (vi)
Hispanic or Latino, (vii) or people who are Middle Eastern or
North African.
For the purposes of this Act, "State agency" means the
offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V
of the Illinois Constitution, executive agencies, and
departments, boards, commissions, and authorities under the
Governor.
(Source: P.A. 98-982, eff. 8-18-14.)