Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB0534

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Bureau on Apprenticeship Programs within the Department of labor, and provides for the powers and duties of the Bureau. Creates the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs Approved by the United States Department of Labor. Provides for the appointment of members to the Advisory Board and the powers, duties, and other requirements concerning the Advisory Board and its members. Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Further specifies the allocation of the percentage of specified State contracts to be awarded to minorities, women, and persons with disabilities under the Act. Provides further requirements concerning requests for individual contract exemptions, requests for contract class exemptions, and requests for contract goal waivers. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In a Section concerning deception relating to certification of disadvantaged business enterprises, modifies the penalty for specified actions from a Class 2 felony to a Class 1 felony. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: (1) in provisions creating the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs, provides that the Board may request necessary information from the Department of Labor, other State agencies, or public institutions of higher education (in the engrossed bill, the Department of Labor only); (2) provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall conduct a second social scientific study measuring the impact of discrimination on minority and women business development in the State; (3) in provisions amending the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act, provides that the Business Enterprise Council may charge fees for a written request of contract exemptions; (4) extends the repeal of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act until June 30, 2024; and (5) adds provisions amending the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act to provide that the Department of Labor's report compiling and summarizing demographic trends in the State's building trades apprenticeship programs shall include certain specified information. Effective immediately.

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