Illinois Administrative Code › Title 50 - INSURANCE › Part 910 - SUPPLIER DIVERSITY REPORTS › Section 910.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to this Part:
"Accredited reinsurer" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				173.1(1)(B) of the Code.
"Admitted assets" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.1 of
				the Code.
"Affiliate" or "affiliated" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				131.1(a) of the Code.
"Annual statement" means the annual statement described in
				Section 136 of the Code.
"BEMWPD Act" means the Business Enterprise for Minorities,
				Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act [30 ILCS 575].
"Business owned by a person with a disability" has the meaning
				ascribed in Section 2 of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and
				Persons with Disabilities Act [30 ILCS 575].
"Captive insurance company" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				123C-1(D) of the Code.
"Code" means the Illinois Insurance Code [215 ILCS 5].
"Company" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2(e) of the
				Code.
"Dental service plan corporation" has the meaning ascribed in
				Section 3 of the Dental Service Plan Act [215 ILCS 110].
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Insurance.
"Director" means the Director of the Department.
"Fraternal benefit society" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				282.1 of the Code.
"Health maintenance organization" has the meaning ascribed in
				Section 1-2(9) of the Health Maintenance Organization Act [215 ILCS
				125].
"Inclusion supplier" means a supplier that is a business owned
				by a person with a disability, an LGBT-owned business, a minority-owned
				business, a veteran-owned business, or a women-owned business.
"LGBT person" means an individual who either is not cisgender
				or is not heterosexual, or both, and includes, but is not limited to, an
				individual who identifies as homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual,
				aromantic, transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, or intersex. The term
does not include a physical or sexual attraction to a minor by an
				adult
. [775 ILCS 5/1-103 (O-1)]
"LGBT-owned business" means a business that is at least 51%
				owned, or in the case of a corporation, at least 51% of whose outstanding
				shares of stock are owned, by one or more LGBT persons, and the management and
				daily operations of which are controlled by one or more LGBT persons.
"Limited health service organization" has the meaning ascribed
				in Section 1002 of the Limited Health Service Organization Act [215 ILCS
				130].
"Minority person" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2(A)(1)
				of the BEMWPD Act.
"Minority-owned business" means a business that is at least 51%
				owned, or in the case of a corporation, at least 51% of whose outstanding
				shares of stock are owned, by one or more minority persons, and the management
				and daily operations of which are controlled by one or more minority
				persons.
"NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance
				Commissioners.
"Person with a disability" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				2(A)(4) through (4.1) of the BEMWPD Act.
"Procurement program" means a risk-bearing entity or reporting
				group's collection of policies, practices, and procedures to purchase goods or
				services by means other than direct employment or voluntary labor.
"Qualified group workers compensation pool" has the meaning
				ascribed in Section 107a.05(a) of the Code.
"Reporting group" means a risk-bearing entity combined with all
				affiliates that participate in the same supplier diversity program or, absent a
				supplier diversity program, the same procurement program.
"Risk-bearing entity" means a company, dental service plan
				corporation, health maintenance organization, limited health service
				organization, or accredited reinsurer.
"SERFF" means the System for Electronic Rate and Form
				Filing.
"Supplier" means any natural or legal person, including a
				subcontractor, who provides goods or services to or on behalf of a risk-bearing
				entity or affiliate pursuant to (i) a contract, including a contract to provide
				services to persons covered under a policy form issued by the risk-bearing
				entity, or (ii) a single-transaction purchase by the risk-bearing entity or
				affiliate. "Supplier" excludes persons who only have an employment contract
				with the risk-bearing entity or affiliate. Nothing in this definition requires
				a risk-bearing entity or reporting group's supplier diversity program to apply
				to all possible types of suppliers.
"Supplier diversity policy statement" means any language that
				refers to the risk-bearing entity or reporting group's policies to meet a goal
				of procuring goods and services from suppliers owned and controlled by members
				of populations that have been historically underrepresented in business
				opportunities.
"Supplier diversity program" means the portion of a procurement
				program that reflects an intentional effort to include one or more historically
				underrepresented populations in opportunities to become or remain suppliers,
				including any portion created to fulfill a supplier diversity policy
				statement.
"Tier 2 supplier" means a supplier that is a subcontractor to
				another supplier that directly contracts with or sells to the risk-bearing
				entity or reporting group.
"Unique paid inclusion supplier" means an inclusion supplier
				with which a risk-bearing entity or reporting group has had transactions or
				contracts, regardless of the number or value of transactions or
				contracts.
"Unique paid supplier" means a supplier with which a
				risk-bearing entity or reporting group has had transactions or contracts,
				regardless of the number or value of transactions or contracts.
"Veteran" has the meaning ascribed in
				38 U.S.C.
				101(2).
"Veteran-owned business" means a business that is at least 51%
				owned, or in the case of a corporation, at least 51% of whose outstanding
				shares of stock are owned, by one or more veterans, and the management and
				daily operations of which are controlled by one or more veterans.
"Woman" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2 of the Business
				Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act [30 ILCS
				575].
"Women-owned business" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2 of
				the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities
				Act [30 ILCS 575].