Bill Text: IL SB3805 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Creates the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment. Provides that the Office shall assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and other underserved communities and constituencies through targeted programs, resources, and outreach and promotional activities. Provides that the Office may engage in or conduct promoting and conducting outreach efforts to ensure access to State and federal funding opportunities, and assisting minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities and other underserved communities and constituencies in applying for and receiving loan funds in the State. Provides that the Office may engage in other specified workshops, public forums, and other functions that assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and other underserved communities and constituencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-12 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3805 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3805-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3805 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Celina Villanueva SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 605/605-1032 new
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Creates the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment. Provides that the Office shall assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and other underserved communities and constituencies through targeted programs, resources, and outreach and promotional activities. Provides that the Office may engage in or conduct promoting and conducting outreach efforts to ensure access to State and federal funding opportunities, and assisting minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities and other underserved communities and constituencies in applying for and receiving loan funds in the State. Provides that the Office may engage in other specified workshops, public forums, and other functions that assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and other underserved communities and constituencies.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
is amended by adding Section 605-1032 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1032 new)
Sec. 605-1032. Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Office" means the Office of Economic Equity and
Empowerment.
(b) The Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment is
hereby created within the Department. The Office shall assist
minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses,
veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with
disabilities, and other underserved communities and
constituencies through targeted programs, resources, and
outreach and promotional activities. The Office may engage in
or conduct the following activities:
(1) promoting and conducting outreach efforts to
ensure access to State and federal funding opportunities,
and assisting minority-owned businesses, women-owned
businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by

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persons with disabilities, and other underserved
communities and constituencies in applying for and
receiving loan funds in the State;
(2) providing and hosting workshops and public forums
and engaging in outreach efforts for minority-owned
businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned
businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities,
and other underserved communities and constituencies to
encourage participation in programs under the Business
Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with
Disabilities Act, and assisting those businesses in
becoming designated under that Act and under similar
certification programs;
(3) providing and hosting workshops and public forums
and engaging in outreach efforts that assist and educate
minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses,
veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with
disabilities, and other underserved communities and
constituencies on the process of applying for and becoming
certified to apply for State grant funds under the Grant
Accountability and Transparency Act;
(4) providing and hosting workshops and public forums
and engaging in outreach efforts that assist and educate
aspiring and existing minority-owned businesses,
women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses,
businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and other

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