(30 ILCS 785/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Grantee" means any qualified public, private, or not-for-profit agency or
individual, including, but not limited to, a college, university, hospital,
laboratory,
research institution, local health department, voluntary health agency, health
maintenance
organization, corporation, student, fellow, or entrepreneur, conducting
clinical research
using State funds. A grantee may also be a corporation that is headquartered in
Illinois
and that conducts research using State funds.
"Minority group" means a group that is a readily identifiable subset of the U.S. population that is distinguished by racial, ethnic, or cultural heritage and that is made up of persons who are any of the following: (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).
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(2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the
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| 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).
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(3) Black or African American (a person having
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| origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa).
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(4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican,
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| Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race).
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(5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a
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| person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands).
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"Project of clinical research" includes a clinical trial.
(Source: P.A. 102-465, eff. 1-1-22.)
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