103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4861

 

Introduced 2/7/2024, by Rep. Dagmara Avelar

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act

    Creates the Diversity Data in Illinois Bar Admissions Act. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to report annually to the General Assembly on each year's Illinois bar admissions passage and failure rates of applicants to include, but not be limited to, data by ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Diversity Data in Illinois Bar Admissions Act.
 
6    Section 5. Diversity data in Illinois bar admissions. The
7Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts
8shall report annually to the General Assembly on each year's
9Illinois bar admissions detailing passage and failure rates of
10applicants to include diversity data to include, but not be
11limited to, data by ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status.