Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Defines "good faith effort" for purposes of the Act. Provides factors for determining whether a good faith effort has been made for purposes of granting a waiver under the Act. Provides for a uniform standard of contract goals for State agencies, public institutions of higher education, and other departments. Specifies further requirements concerning the uniform standard of contract goals. Provides that the terms of every contract entered into by a State agency or public institution of higher education for purposes of the Act shall include a provision requiring vendors who fail to comply with a utilization plan to return all funds paid to that vendor with an expectation of compliance. Provides that the Business Enterprise Council may (rather than shall) grant a waiver under specified circumstances. Makes conforming changes. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 575/5 from Ch. 127, par. 132.605 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Modifies requirements concerning the establishment of a uniform standard of contract goals by the Business Enterprise Program. Provides that the Secretary of the Business Enterprise Council for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities shall have the duty to establish an enforcement procedure whereby the Council may recommend to the appropriate State legal officer that the State exercise its legal remedies which shall include, among other legal remedies, the imposition of a penalty in the amount of the discrepancy between the commitment contained in a utilization plan, as such amount may be amended over the term of the contract, and the qualifying payments made to the eligible certified vendors listed in the utilization plan. Specifies further requirements concerning exemptions and requests for waivers from specified requirements under the Act. Makes further changes concerning enforcement procedures under the Act. Modifies and adds defined terms for purposes of the Act. Makes conforming and other changes.
Rep. Rita Mayfield
Sponsored bills
Declares March 15, 2022 as Equal Pay Day.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person commits an unlawful practice when he or she, in connection with any telecommunications service or voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service, knowingly causes any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to deceive, defraud, mislead, harass, cause emotional distress, or wrongfully obtain anything of value. Provides exemptions.
Amends the Criminal Victims' Asset Discovery Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Instructional Materials Article of the School Code. Provides that a Section of the Article may be referred to as the Pierce Twins Law. Provides that a school district (including a charter school) shall require that books that are included as a part of any course, material, instruction, reading assignment, or other school curricula related to literature during the school year or that appear on summer reading lists must include books that are written by diverse authors, including, but not limited to, authors who are African American, women, Native American, LatinX, and Asian. Provides that reading material may not perpetuate bias against persons based on specified categories. Provides that for any school district utilizing federal funds under Title I, Part A of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the selection of each book to be included in a reading assignment, course material and instruction, or other school curricula related to literature must first receive prior approval from the school board before the book may be included. Provides that the criteria for the approval or denial of a book shall be determined by school board policy, but the minimum requirement is that the book may not be approved by the school board if the book contains language or material that is derogatory or racist or incites hate against any persons. Provides for rulemaking and guidelines. Effective immediately.
Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that quick-take proceedings may be used for a period of no more than 2 years after the effective date by Calumet City for the acquisition of certain described property for the purpose of economic development. Repeals the Section 3 years after the effective date. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, as follows: Other State Funds $267,689,800.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that no spouse of a member of the General Assembly shall be appointed to a board, commission, authority, task force, or other similar body authorized or created by State law if such appointment offers compensation for service as a member of that body. Specifies that this requirement shall only apply to persons appointed to a board, commission, authority, task force, or other similar body on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois State Police for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, as follows: General Funds $328,119,700; Other State Funds $437,550,000; Federal Funds $30,000,000; Total $795,669,700.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person under 21 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child is eligible (rather than not eligible) for parole review by the Prisoner Review Board after serving 20 years or more of his or her sentence or sentences. Provides that a person who was under the age of 21 and is serving a sentence for first degree murder or a term of natural life imprisonment shall be eligible for parole review by the Prisoner Review Board after serving 40 years or more of his or her sentence or sentences.