103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3768

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 50/5

    Amends the Uniform Racial Classification Act. Provides that when a State agency is required by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or ethnic classifications, that State agency shall also include people who are Middle Eastern or North African.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Uniform Racial Classification Act is
5amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 50/5)
7    Sec. 5. Uniform racial classification. Notwithstanding any
8other provision of law, except as otherwise required by
9federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required
10by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or
11ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use the
12following classifications: (i) White; (ii) Black or African
13American; (iii) American Indian or Alaska Native; (iv) Asian;
14(v) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or (vi)
15Hispanic or Latino, (vii) or people who are Middle Eastern or
16North African.
17    For the purposes of this Act, "State agency" means the
18offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V
19of the Illinois Constitution, executive agencies, and
20departments, boards, commissions, and authorities under the
21Governor.
22(Source: P.A. 98-982, eff. 8-18-14.)