Public Act 098-0585
 
SB2332 EnrolledLRB098 10661 MLW 40957 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
Section 2705-587 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2705/2705-587)
    Sec. 2705-587. Diversity in Engineering scholarship
program.
    (a) The Diversity in Engineering scholarship program is
created to assist in increasing the representation of targeted
group members among the within civil engineers employed
engineer job classifications in which targeted group members
are underutilized by the Department.
    (b) For purposes of this Section:
        "Targeted group member" means a person belonging to a
    class of race, color, or sex, national origin, ancestry,
    age, or disability whose percentage percent of the civil
    engineer workforce employed by within the Department's
    professional classification which includes civil engineers
    is less than the percentage that class's percent of the
    statewide labor market for civil engineers such job
    activities as recorded in determined by the Department's
    review of statewide labor statistics annual affirmative
    action plan.
        "Eligible student" means a person targeted group
    member who: (i) is an Illinois resident at the time of
    application for a scholarship under the Program
    established by this Section; (ii) is enrolled full-time at
    any Illinois college or university in any program leading
    toward a degree in civil engineering; (iii) agrees to
    conditions required by the Department, including the
    obligation to work for the Department after graduation if a
    position is offered for at least one year for each academic
    year the student receives a scholarship.
    (c) The Department, subject to appropriation, shall award
scholarships to up to 20 selected eligible students each year,
unless no targeted group members are identified by the
Department Department's affirmative action plan. The
Department shall establish a process for selecting eligible
students, which considers obtaining a critical mass of students
in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group
members. Each scholarship Scholarships issued pursuant to this
Section shall not exceed $7,500 per academic year.
    (d) The Department shall adopt promulgate rules to
implement and administer the scholarship program created by
this Section.
(Source: P.A. 97-288, eff. 1-1-12.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.