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Article 35 - The State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act

 
    (30 ILCS 577/Art. 35 heading) Article 35.
(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)

    (30 ILCS 577/35‑1)
    Sec. 35‑1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)

    (30 ILCS 577/35‑5)
    Sec. 35‑5. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article:
    "Under‑represented minority" means African‑American, Hispanic, and Asian‑American as those terms are defined in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females, and Persons with Disabilities Act.
    "Construction" means any constructing, altering, reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing, refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking, painting, decorating, demolishing, and adding to or subtracting from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street, bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant, water works, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development, real property or improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the performance of the work herein described involves the addition to, or fabrication into, any structure, project, development, real property or improvement herein described of any material or article of merchandise. Construction shall also include moving construction related materials on the job site to or from the job site.
(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)

    (30 ILCS 577/35‑10)
    Sec. 35‑10. Apprenticeship reports. Each labor organization and other entity in Illinois with one or more apprenticeship programs for construction trades, whether or not recognized and certified by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, must report to the Illinois Department of Labor the information required to be reported to the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training by labor organizations with recognized and certified apprenticeship programs that lists the race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin of apprentices in that labor organization or entity. The information must be submitted to the Illinois Department of Labor as provided by rules adopted by the Department. For labor organizations with recognized and certified apprentice programs, the reporting requirement of this Section may be met by providing the Illinois Department of Labor, on a schedule adopted by the Department by rule, copies of the reports submitted to the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training.
(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)

    (30 ILCS 577/35‑15)
    Sec. 35‑15. Compilation of building trade data. By March 1 of each year, the Illinois Department of Labor shall publish and make available on its official website a report compiling and summarizing demographic trends in the State's building trades apprenticeship programs, with particular attention to race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin of apprentices in labor organizations and other entities in Illinois based on the information submitted to the Department under Section 35‑10.
(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)

    (30 ILCS 577/35‑20)
    Sec. 35‑20. Construction employment initiative.
    (a) Each fiscal year, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall identify construction projects that are:
        (1) funded by the State or the American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act or funded in part by the State and in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act;

(2) equal to or greater than $5,000,000 in total

value; and

(3) located in or within 5 miles of Cook County,

Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, Kankakee, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign‑Urbana, Springfield, East St. Louis, Rockford, Waukegan, or Cairo.

In addition, the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may designate any other construction project as a construction employment initiative project if the local available workforce is sufficient to meet the goals of this Section.     (b) Not less than 20% of the total apprenticeship hours

performed on projects identified pursuant to subsection (a) is established as a goal of those projects to be completed by members of minority groups currently under‑represented in skilled building trades.

(c) Not less than 10% of the total apprenticeship hours

performed on projects identified pursuant to subsection (a) is established as a goal of those projects to be performed by women. A woman who is also a member of a minority group shall be designated to one category or the other by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for purposes of this subsection and subsection (b).

(d) An advisory committee for the purposes of this

Section is established as follows:

(1) Eight members appointed 2 each by the President

and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.

(2) The Director of Commerce and Economic

Opportunity, or his or her designee.

(3) The Illinois Secretary of Transportation, or his

or her designee.

(4) The executive director of the Capital Development

Board, or his or her designee.

(5) Three members representing building trades labor

organizations, appointed by the Governor.

(6) One member representing vertical construction,

appointed by the Governor.

(7) One member representing road builders, appointed

by the Governor.

(8) One member representing an association of

African‑American owned construction companies, appointed by the Governor.

(9) One member representing an association of Latino

owned construction companies, appointed by the Governor.

(10) One member representing an association of women

in the building trades, appointed by the Governor.

(11) One member representing an association of

female‑owned construction companies, appointed by the Governor.

The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall

provide administrative support staff for the advisory committee.

(Source: P.A. 96‑37, eff. 7‑13‑09.)