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Rep. David E. Miller
Filed: 7/26/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1592
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1592, AS AMENDED, |
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| with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. |
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| 5, on page 47, below line 3, by inserting the following:
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| "Section 1-127. Minority, female, and disabled persons |
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| businesses; reports. |
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| (a) The Director of the Illinois Power Agency, or his or |
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| her designee, when offering bids for professional services, |
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| shall conduct outreach to minority owned businesses, female |
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| owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with |
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| disabilities. Outreach shall include, but is not limited to, |
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| advertisements in periodicals and newspapers, mailings, and |
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| other appropriate media. |
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| (b) The Director or his or her designee shall, upon |
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| request, provide technical assistance to minority owned |
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| businesses, female owned businesses, and businesses owned by |
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| persons with disabilities seeking to do business with the |
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| Agency. |
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| (c) The Director or his or her designee, upon request, |
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| shall conduct post-bid reviews with minority owned businesses, |
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| female owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with |
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| disabilities whose bids were not selected by the Agency. |
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| Post-bid reviews shall provide a business with detailed and |
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| specific reasons why the bid of that business was rejected and |
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| concrete recommendations to improve its bid application on |
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| future Agency professional services opportunities. |
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| (d) The Agency shall report annually to the Governor and |
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| the General Assembly by July 1. The report shall identify the |
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| businesses that have provided bids to offer professional |
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| services to the Agency and shall also include, but not be |
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| limited to, the following information: |
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| (1) whether or not the businesses are minority owned |
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| businesses, female owned businesses, or businesses owned |
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| by persons with disabilities; |
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| (2) the percentage of professional service contracts |
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| that were awarded to minority owned businesses, female |
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| owned businesses, and businesses owned by persons with |
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| disabilities as compared to other businesses; and |
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| (3) the actions the Agency has undertaken to increase |
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| the use of the minority owned businesses, female owned |
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| businesses, and businesses owned by persons with |
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| disabilities in professional service contracts. |
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| (e) In this Section, "professional services" means |
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| services that use skills that are predominantly mental or |
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| intellectual, rather than physical or manual, including, but |
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| not limited to, accounting, architecture, consulting, |
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| engineering, finance, legal, and marketing. "Professional |
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| services" does not include bidders into the competitive |
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| procurement process pursuant to Section 16-111.5 of the Public |
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| Utilities Act."; and
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| on page 130, line 18, after ""demand response"," by inserting |
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| ""electric utility",".
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