Bill Text: IL HB2297 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that State agencies when collecting and reporting data on employment records must include specified data on persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming. Effective July 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0304 [HB2297 Detail]

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2297 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 410/5
5 ILCS 410/15
Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that State agencies when collecting and reporting data on employment records must include specified data on persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming. Effective July 1, 2025.
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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 State Employment Records Act is amended by
changing Sections 5 and 15 as follows:
(5 ILCS 410/5)
Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby
finds as follows:
(a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of
State services is best facilitated by a diversified State work
force which reflects the diversity of the tax-paying
constituency the State work force is employed to serve.
(b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop
within existing State administrative processes a comprehensive
procedure to collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for
State and public use, information that provides the General
Assembly and the People of this State with adequate
information of the number of minorities, women, persons who
identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons
with physical disabilities employed by State government within
the State work force.
(c) To provide State officials, administrators and the
People of the State with information to help guide efforts to

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achieve a more diversified State work force, the total number
of persons employed within the State work force shall be
tabulated in a comprehensive manner to provide meaningful
review of the number and percentage of minorities, women,
persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming,
and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the
State work force.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
(5 ILCS 410/15)
Sec. 15. Reported information.
(a) State agencies shall, if necessary, consult with the
Office of the Comptroller and the Governor's Office of
Management and Budget to confirm the accuracy of information
required by this Act. State agencies shall collect and
maintain information and publish reports including but not
limited to the following information arranged in the indicated
categories:
(i) the total number of persons employed by the agency
who are part of the State work force, as defined by this
Act, and the number and statistical percentage of women,
minorities, persons who identify persons who identify as
non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
physical disabilities employed within the agency work
force;
(ii) the total number of persons employed within the

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agency work force receiving levels of State remuneration
within incremental levels of $10,000, and the number and
statistical percentage of minorities, women, persons who
identify persons who identify as non-binary or gender
non-conforming, and persons with physical disabilities in
the agency work force receiving levels of State
remuneration within incremented levels of $10,000;
(iii) the number of open positions of employment or
advancement in the agency work force, reported on a fiscal
year basis;
(iv) the number and percentage of open positions of
employment or advancement in the agency work force filled
by minorities, women, persons who persons who identify as
non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
physical disabilities, reported on a fiscal year basis;
(v) the total number of persons employed within the
agency work force as professionals, and the number and
percentage of minorities, women, persons who identify as
non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with
physical disabilities employed within the agency work
force as professional employees; and
(vi) the total number of persons employed within the
agency work force as contractual service employees, and
the number and percentage of minorities, women, persons
who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
persons with physical disabilities employed within the

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agency work force as contractual services employees.
(b) The numbers and percentages of minorities required to
be reported by this Section shall be identified by the
following categories:
(1) 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).
(2) 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 Vietnam).
(3) Black or African American (a person having origins
in any of the black racial groups of Africa).
(4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican,
Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish
culture or origin, regardless of race).
(5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a
person having origins in any of the original peoples of
Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).
Data concerning women and persons who identify as
non-binary or gender non-conforming shall be reported on a
minority and nonminority basis. The numbers and percentages of
persons with physical disabilities required to be reported
under this Section shall be identified by categories as man,

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woman, and persons who identify as non-binary or gender
non-conforming male and female.
(c) To accomplish consistent and uniform classification
and collection of information from each State agency, and to
ensure full compliance and that all required information is
provided, the Index Department of the Office of the Secretary
of State, in consultation with the Department of Human Rights,
the Department of Central Management Services, and the Office
of the Comptroller, shall develop appropriate forms to be used
by all State agencies subject to the reporting requirements of
this Act.
All State agencies shall make the reports required by this
Act using the forms developed under this subsection. The
reports must be certified and signed by an official of the
agency who is responsible for the information provided.
(Source: P.A. 102-465, eff. 1-1-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2025.