Illinois House Bill 53 (2021)

• Authority: Illinois
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2022-01-22

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
• Unequal performance across groups

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Governance failure
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of 2-3 subdomains, with strong focus on unfair discrimination (1.1), unequal performance across groups (1.3), and governance failure (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination and bias detection domains.

Sector coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities
• Information
• Finance & Insurance
• Real Estate, Rental & Leasing
• Professional & Technical Services
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Management, Administrative & Support Services
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
• Accommodation, Food & Other Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation governs AI use across all employment sectors by regulating employers who use AI for hiring decisions. While not sector-specific, it applies to any organization conducting hiring through AI-analyzed video interviews, making it cross-sectoral in nature with primary impact on Professional and Technical Services, Information, and other sectors with significant hiring activities.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state legislative amendment with mandatory reporting requirements and enforcement mechanisms through a state agency.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Illinois General Assembly
• Summary: The document is a legislative bill enacted by the Illinois General Assembly, as indicated in the opening clause.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer
• Summary: The legislation targets employers who use AI analysis for video interviews to make hiring decisions, making them AI deployers in the employment context.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
• Summary: The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is designated to receive reports, analyze data, and report findings to state authorities.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; Governor; General Assembly
• Summary: The Department monitors compliance through annual data collection and analysis, reporting findings to the Governor and General Assembly for oversight.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily focuses on the Operate and Monitor stage of the AI lifecycle, requiring ongoing data collection and analysis of AI system performance in employment contexts. There is minimal coverage of deployment requirements.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions artificial intelligence in the context of video interview analysis systems. It does not define or distinguish between AI models, AI systems, or specific types of AI such as frontier, general purpose, or generative AI. No compute thresholds or model architecture specifications are mentioned.