Illinois § 12.2

§ 12.2.

Business enterprise program. (a) For the purposes of this Section, the terms "minority", "minority-owned business", "woman", "women-owned business", "person with a disability", and "business owned by a person with a disability" have the meanings ascribed to them in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. (b) The Board shall, by rule, establish goals for the award of contracts by each organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee to businesses owned by minorities, women, and persons with disabilities, expressed as percentages of an organization licensee's or inter-track wagering licensee's total dollar amount of contracts awarded during each calendar year. Each organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee must make every effort to meet the goals established by the Board pursuant to this Section. When setting the goals for the award of contracts, the Board shall not include contracts where: (1) licensees are purchasing goods or services from vendors or suppliers or in markets where there are no or a limited number of minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, or businesses owned by persons with disabilities that would be sufficient to satisfy the goal; (2) there are no or a limited number of suppliers licensed by the Board; (3) the licensee or its parent company owns a company that provides the goods or services; or (4) the goods or services are provided to the licensee by a publicly traded company. (c) Each organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee shall file with the Board an annual report of its utilization of minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities during the preceding calendar year. The reports shall include a self-evaluation of the efforts of the organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee to meet its goals under this Section. (d) The organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee shall have the right to request a waiver from the requirements of this Section. The Board shall grant the waiver where the organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee demonstrates that there has been made a good faith effort to comply with the goals for participation by minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities. (e) If the Board determines that its goals and policies are not being met by any organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee, then the Board may: (1) adopt remedies for such violations; and (2) recommend that the organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee provide additional opportunities for participation by minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities; such recommendations may include, but shall not be limited to: (A) assurances of stronger and better focused solicitation efforts to obtain more minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities as potential sources of supply; (B) division of job or project requirements, when economically feasible, into tasks or quantities to permit participation of minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities; (C) elimination of extended experience or capitalization requirements, when programmatically feasible, to permit participation of minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities; (D) identification of specific proposed contracts as particularly attractive or appropriate for participation by minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities, such identification to result from and be coupled with the efforts of items (A) through (C); and (E) implementation of regulations established for the use of the sheltered market process. (f) The Board shall file, no later than March 1 of each year, an annual report that shall detail the level of achievement toward the goals specified in this Section over the 3 most recent fiscal years. The annual report shall include, but need not be limited to: (1) a summary detailing expenditures subject to the goals, the actual goals specified, and the goals attained by each organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee; (2) a summary of the number of contracts awarded and the average contract amount by each organization licensee or inter-track wagering licensee; (3) an analysis of the level of overall goal achievement concerning purchases from minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities; (4) an analysis of the number of minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with disabilities that are certified under the program as well as the number of those businesses that received State procurement contracts; and (5) (blank). (Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-891, eff. 1-1-17; 100-391, eff. 8-25-17.)