98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3180
 
Introduced 2/11/2014, by Sen. William Delgado
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
15 ILCS 50/10
15 ILCS 50/25 new

     Amends the Gubernatorial Boards and Commissions Act. Provides that an application for appointment to a gubernatorial board or commission shall include a data field where an applicant shall disclose his or her ethnicity, gender, and disability status for reporting purposes. Provides that by May 1 of each year, the Governor shall file a report with the General Assembly and the Legislative Research Unit detailing (1) the demographic information (ethnicity, gender, and disability status) of each appointment made by the Governor during the prior year, (2) the aggregate demographic information for those persons who applied for an appointment with the Governor's office, but were not appointed during the prior year, and (3) the demographic composition of the gubernatorial appointees on each board, commission, and task force as of the date of the report. Requires the  Legislative Research Unit to publish an annual report detailing the demographic composition of the gubernatorial appointees on each board, commission, and task force as of the date of the report.
  


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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 Gubernatorial Boards and Commissions Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 10 and  by adding Section 25 as 
6follows:
 
7    (15 ILCS 50/10)

8    Sec. 10. Repository of board and commission membership.   The 
9Office shall establish and maintain on the Internet a 
10centralized, searchable database, freely accessible to the 
11public, of information relating to appointed positions on the 
12State's boards and commissions.
13    The database shall include, at a minimum:
14        (1) The qualifications for, and the powers, duties, and 
15    responsibilities of, each appointed position on each of the 
16    State's boards and commissions.
17        (2) The name and term of each current appointed member 
18    of a board or commission.
19        (3) Each current vacancy in appointed membership of 
20    each of the State's boards and commissions.
21        (4) Information as to how a person may apply for 
22    appointment to a board or commission, including a uniform 
23    application that may be downloaded and printed or that may 
 
 
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1    be submitted electronically. Such application shall 
2    include a data field where an applicant shall disclose his 
3    or her ethnicity, gender and disability status for 
4    reporting purposes. 
5        (5) A link to that section of the Secretary of State's 
6    website that allows the public to search Statements of 
7    Economic Interest filed with the Secretary of State.


8(Source: P.A. 96-543, eff. 8-17-09.)
 
9    (15 ILCS 50/25 new)
10    Sec. 25. Demographic composition; report. By May 1 of each 
11year, the Governor shall file a report with the General 
12Assembly and the Legislative Research Unit detailing the 
13following information:
14        (1) the demographic information (ethnicity, gender, 
15    and disability status) of each appointment made by the 
16    Governor during the prior year;
17        (2) the aggregate demographic information for those 
18    persons who applied for an appointment with the Governor's 
19    office, but were not appointed during the prior year; and
20        (3) the demographic composition of the gubernatorial 
21    appointees on each board, commission, and task force as of 
22    the date of the report.
23    The Legislative Research Unit shall publish an annual 
24report detailing the demographic composition of the 
25gubernatorial appointees on each board, commission, and task 
 
 
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1force as of the date of the report.