Bill Text: IL HB4710 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Defines "employee qualifying business". Provides that a minority-owned business, women-owned business, and business owned by a person with a disability each include employee qualifying businesses for purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4710 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4710-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4710 Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 575/2
Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Defines "employee qualifying business". Provides that a minority-owned business, women-owned business, and Business owned by a person with a disability each include employee qualifying businesses for purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women,
and Persons with Disabilities Act is amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
(30 ILCS 575/2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on June 30, 2024)
Sec. 2. Definitions.
(A) For the purpose of this Act, the following terms shall
have the following definitions:
(1) "Minority person" shall mean a person who is a
citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States
and who is any of the following:
(a) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person
having origins in any of the original peoples of North
and South America, including Central America, and who
maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment).
(b) Asian (a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or
the Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited
to, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and

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Vietnam).
(c) Black or African American (a person having
origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa).
(d) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican,
Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other
Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race).
(e) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a
person having origins in any of the original peoples of
Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).
(2) "Woman" shall mean a person who is a citizen or
lawful permanent resident of the United States and who is
of the female gender.
(2.05) "Person with a disability" means a person who is
a citizen or lawful resident of the United States and is a
person qualifying as a person with a disability under
subdivision (2.1) of this subsection (A).
(2.1) "Person with a disability" means a person with a
severe physical or mental disability that:
(a) results from:
amputation,
arthritis,
autism,
blindness,
burn injury,
cancer,
cerebral palsy,

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Crohn's disease,
cystic fibrosis,
deafness,
head injury,
heart disease,
hemiplegia,
hemophilia,
respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction,
an intellectual disability,
mental illness,
multiple sclerosis,
muscular dystrophy,
musculoskeletal disorders,
neurological disorders, including stroke and
epilepsy,
paraplegia,
quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions,
sickle cell anemia,
ulcerative colitis,
specific learning disabilities, or
end stage renal failure disease; and
(b) substantially limits one or more of the
person's major life activities.
Another disability or combination of disabilities may
also be considered as a severe disability for the purposes
of item (a) of this subdivision (2.1) if it is determined

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by an evaluation of rehabilitation potential to cause a
comparable degree of substantial functional limitation
similar to the specific list of disabilities listed in item
(a) of this subdivision (2.1).
(3) "Minority-owned business" means a business which
is at least 51% owned by one or more minority persons, or
in the case of a corporation, at least 51% of the stock in
which is owned by one or more minority persons; and the
management and daily business operations of which are
controlled by one or more of the minority individuals who
own it. "Minority-owned business" includes an employee
qualifying business as defined under this Section.
(4) "Women-owned business" means a business which is at
least 51% owned by one or more women, or, in the case of a
corporation, at least 51% of the stock in which is owned by
one or more women; and the management and daily business
operations of which are controlled by one or more of the
women who own it. "Women-owned business" includes an
employee qualifying business as defined under this
Section.
(4.1) "Business owned by a person with a disability"
means a business that is at least 51% owned by one or more
persons with a disability and the management and daily
business operations of which are controlled by one or more
of the persons with disabilities who own it. A
not-for-profit agency for persons with disabilities that

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is exempt from taxation under Section 501 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 is also considered a "business owned
by a person with a disability". "Business owned by a person
with a disability" includes an employee qualifying
business as defined under this Section.
(4.2) "Council" means the Business Enterprise Council
for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities
created under Section 5 of this Act.
(4.3) "Employee qualifying business" means a business
with 50 or more full-time employees that is not 51% owned
by a minority person, woman, or person with a disability,
but whose employees are comprised of, at a minimum: (i) 66%
minority persons; (ii) 66% women; (iii) 66% persons with a
disability; or (iv) any combination of persons identified
in items (i) through (iii) that amounts to 66% or higher.
(5) "State contracts" means all contracts entered into
by the State, any agency or department thereof, or any
public institution of higher education, including
community college districts, regardless of the source of
the funds with which the contracts are paid, which are not
subject to federal reimbursement. "State contracts" does
not include contracts awarded by a retirement system,
pension fund, or investment board subject to Section
1-109.1 of the Illinois Pension Code. This definition shall
control over any existing definition under this Act or
applicable administrative rule.

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"State construction contracts" means all State
contracts entered into by a State agency or public
institution of higher education for the repair,
remodeling, renovation or construction of a building or
structure, or for the construction or maintenance of a
highway defined in Article 2 of the Illinois Highway Code.
(6) "State agencies" shall mean all departments,
officers, boards, commissions, institutions and bodies
politic and corporate of the State, but does not include
the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the
Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, the
Board of Trustees of Chicago State University, the Board of
Trustees of Eastern Illinois University, the Board of
Trustees of Governors State University, the Board of
Trustees of Illinois State University, the Board of
Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University, the Board of
Trustees of Northern Illinois University, the Board of
Trustees of Western Illinois University, municipalities or
other local governmental units, or other State
constitutional officers.
(7) "Public institutions of higher education" means
the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University,
Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University,
Governors State University, Illinois State University,
Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois
University, Western Illinois University, the public

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community colleges of the State, and any other public
universities, colleges, and community colleges now or
hereafter established or authorized by the General
Assembly.
(8) "Certification" means a determination made by the
Council or by one delegated authority from the Council to
make certifications, or by a State agency with statutory
authority to make such a certification, that a business
entity is a business owned by a minority, woman, or person
with a disability for whatever purpose. A business owned
and controlled by women shall be certified as a
"woman-owned business". A business owned and controlled by
women who are also minorities shall be certified as both a
"women-owned business" and a "minority-owned business".
(9) "Control" means the exclusive or ultimate and sole
control of the business including, but not limited to,
capital investment and all other financial matters,
property, acquisitions, contract negotiations, legal
matters, officer-director-employee selection and
comprehensive hiring, operating responsibilities,
cost-control matters, income and dividend matters,
financial transactions and rights of other shareholders or
joint partners. Control shall be real, substantial and
continuing, not pro forma. Control shall include the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of the business and to make the day-to-day as well

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as major decisions in matters of policy, management and
operations. Control shall be exemplified by possessing the
requisite knowledge and expertise to run the particular
business and control shall not include simple majority or
absentee ownership.
(10) "Business" means a business that has annual gross
sales of less than $75,000,000 as evidenced by the federal
income tax return of the business. A firm with gross sales
in excess of this cap may apply to the Council for
certification for a particular contract if the firm can
demonstrate that the contract would have significant
impact on businesses owned by minorities, women, or persons
with disabilities as suppliers or subcontractors or in
employment of minorities, women, or persons with
disabilities.
(11) "Utilization plan" means a form and additional
documentations included in all bids or proposals that
demonstrates a vendor's proposed utilization of vendors
certified by the Business Enterprise Program to meet the
targeted goal. The utilization plan shall demonstrate that
the Vendor has either: (1) met the entire contract goal or
(2) requested a full or partial waiver and made good faith
efforts towards meeting the goal.
(12) "Business Enterprise Program" means the Business
Enterprise Program of the Department of Central Management
Services.

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(B) When a business is owned at least 51% by any
combination of minority persons, women, or persons with
disabilities, even though none of the 3 classes alone holds at
least a 51% interest, the ownership requirement for purposes of
this Act is considered to be met. The certification category
for the business is that of the class holding the largest
ownership interest in the business. If 2 or more classes have
equal ownership interests, the certification category shall be
determined by the business.
(Source: P.A. 100-391, eff. 8-25-17; 101-601, eff. 1-1-20.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.