5 ILCS 310/ Gender Balanced Appointments Act.

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5 ILCS 310/1

(5 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 4301)

Sec. 1.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Gender Balanced Appointments Act.

(Source: P.A. 87-797.)

5 ILCS 310/2

(5 ILCS 310/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 4302)

Sec. 2.

All appointments to boards, commissions, committees and councils of
the State created by the laws of this State and after the effective date of
this Act shall be gender balanced to the extent possible and to the extent
that appointees are qualified to serve on those boards, commissions,
committees and councils. If gender balance is not possible, then
appointments shall provide for significant representation of both sexes to
boards, commissions, committees and councils governed by this Act and
Section 5-510 of the Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS
5/5-510). If there are
multiple appointing authorities for a board, commission, committee, or
council, they shall each strive to achieve gender balance in their
appointments.

Appointments made in accordance with this Act should be made in a
manner that makes a good faith attempt to seek gender balance based on the
numbers of each gender belonging to the group from which appointments are
made.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)