Bill Amendment: IL HB2924 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: CDB-BUSINESS REPORT

Status: 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2924 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2924-Senate_Amendment_004.html

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Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

Filed: 5/28/2019

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2924
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2924 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by adding Sections 605-1030 and 605-1035 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1030 new)
Sec. 605-1030. Office of Inclusion.
(a) The Office of Inclusion is hereby created within the
Department. The Office shall assist minority-owned businesses,
women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses and
businesses owned by persons with disabilities through targeted
programs, resources, and outreach and promotional activities.
The Office shall engage in or conduct the following activities:
(1) promoting and conducting outreach efforts with
respect to the making of small business loans pursuant to

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Section 9-4.3 of the Build Illinois Act and assisting
minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses,
veteran-owned businesses and businesses owned by persons
with disabilities in applying for and receiving loan funds
under that Act;
(2) providing and hosting workshops and public forums
and engaging in outreach efforts for minority-owned
businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned
businesses and businesses owned by persons with
disabilities to encourage participation in programs
authorized by the Business Enterprise for Minorities,
Women and Persons with Disabilities Act and the Illinois
Procurement Code;
(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 and businesses owned by persons
with disabilities on the process of applying for and
becoming certified to apply for State grant funds under the
Grant Accountability and Transparency Act; and
(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, and
businesses owned by persons with disabilities in
understanding concepts such as, but not limited to,

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business formation, business planning, capital access, and
marketing a business.
(b) In order to facilitate and encourage the growth of
supplier diversity, the Office may have at least one employee
that serves as a supplier diversity program manager to (i)
collect reports and information concerning entities that
manage supplier diversity programs and (ii) conduct public
workshops focused on specific industries to collaboratively
connect diverse enterprises with entities that manage supplier
diversity programs. Those workshops shall be modeled after
Illinois Commerce Commission hearings for utilities and
railroads and shall include a collaborative discussion of filed
supplier diversity reports. The program manager shall hold
public workshops for relevant industries including, but not
limited to, gaming, hospitals, and public and private higher
education. Those workshops shall be held on the following
schedule:
(1) gaming: February;
(2) hospitals: April;
(3) public and private higher education: July; and
(4) Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE)
tax credit: September.
(c) The Department shall publish a template for supplier
diversity reports to be used for EDGE tax credit recipients and
private higher education institutions. The reports for private
higher education and EDGE tax credit recipients shall contain

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the following provisions:
(1) the name, address, phone number and email address
of the point of contact for potential vendors to register
with the entity;
(2) local, State, or private certifications that the
entity accepts or recognizes for minority- and women-owned
businesses;
(3) the voluntary supplier diversity goals, if any, for
the next fiscal year for the entire budget of the entity;
(4) for the last fiscal year, the actual contractual
spending for the entire budget of the entity and the actual
spending for minority-owned and women-owned businesses,
expressed both as actual dollars and as a percentage of the
total budget for actual spending for the entity;
(5) narrative explaining the results of the report and
the tactics to be employed to achieve the voluntary goals
for the next fiscal year; and
(6) the particular areas of spending in the next fiscal
year that the entity intends to procure that are most
relevant to minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
(d) In addition, the Office shall compile and publish on
its website a master database for all points of contract,
certifications accepted, and links to the most recent supplier
diversity reports submitted to the Department under:
(1) Section 405-530 of the Department of Central
Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of

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Illinois;
(2) Section 5.3 of the Illinois Health Facilities
Planning Act;
(3) Section 8f of the Business Enterprise for
Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act;
(4) Section 5-57 of the Economic Development for a
Growing Economy Tax Credit Act;
(5) Section 5-117 of the Public Utilities Act;
(6) Section 12.2 of the Illinois Horse Racing Act of
1975; and
(7) Section 10 of the Railroad Supplier Diversity Act.
(e) The Office shall administer programs established by the
Department, the General Assembly, or both and shall provide
grants to minority-owned business, woman-owned businesses,
veteran-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with
disabilities. The Office may establish applications,
notifications, contracts, and other forms or procedures and may
use vendors or contract work to carry out the purposes of this
Act. The Office may coordinate assistance for businesses with
other State agencies.
(f) The Department shall provide staff, administrative
support, and related support to the Office as required to
administer this Section and may adopt rules to administer this
Section.
(20 ILCS 605/605-1035 new)

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Sec. 605-1035. Higher education supplier diversity report.
Every private institution of higher education approved by the
Illinois Student Assistance Commission for the purposes of the
Monetary Award Program shall submit a 2-page report on its
voluntary supplier diversity program to the Department in the
form and manner required by the Department by April 1 of every
year. The Department shall hold an annual workshop open to the
public with leaders of private institutions of higher education
and minority-owned and women-owned businesses in July of every
year.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".