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| Public Act 096-0171 |
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AN ACT concerning government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||
Opportunity Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | ||||
amended by changing Section 605-800 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 605/605-800) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)
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Sec. 605-800. Training grants for skills in critical | ||||
demand.
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(a) Grants to provide training in fields affected by | ||||
critical
demands for certain skills may be made as provided in | ||||
this Section.
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(b) The Director may make grants to eligible employers or | ||||
to other eligible
entities on behalf of employers as authorized | ||||
in subsection (c) to provide
training for employees in fields | ||||
for which there are critical demands for
certain skills. No | ||||
participating employee may be an unauthorized alien, as defined | ||||
in 8 U.S.C. 1324a.
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(c) The Director may accept applications for training grant | ||||
funds and grant
requests from: (i) entities sponsoring | ||||
multi-company eligible employee
training projects as defined | ||||
in subsection (d), including business
associations, strategic | ||||
business partnerships, institutions of secondary or
higher | ||||
education, large manufacturers for supplier network companies, | ||
federal
Job Training Partnership Act administrative entities | ||
or grant recipients, and
labor organizations when those | ||
projects will address common training needs
identified by | ||
participating companies; and (ii) individual employers that | ||
are
undertaking eligible employee training projects as defined | ||
in subsection
(d), including intermediaries and training | ||
agents.
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(d) The Director may make grants to eligible applicants as
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defined in subsection (c) for employee training projects that
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include, but need not be limited to, one or more of the | ||
following:
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(1) Training programs in response to new or changing
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technology being introduced in the workplace.
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(2) Job-linked training that offers special skills for | ||
career
advancement or that is preparatory for, and leads | ||
directly to, jobs with
definite career potential and | ||
long-term job security.
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(3) Training necessary to implement total quality | ||
management
or improvement or both management and | ||
improvement systems within the
workplace.
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(4) Training related to new machinery or equipment.
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(5) Training of employees of companies that are | ||
expanding into
new markets or expanding exports from | ||
Illinois.
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(6) Basic, remedial, or both basic and remedial | ||
training of employees
as a prerequisite for other | ||
vocational or technical skills training or as a
condition | ||
for sustained employment.
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(7) Self-employment training of the unemployed and | ||
underemployed with
comprehensive, competency-based | ||
instructional programs and services,
entrepreneurial | ||
education and training initiatives for youth and adult
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learners in cooperation with the Illinois Institute for | ||
Entrepreneurial
Education, training and education, | ||
conferences, workshops, and best practice
information for | ||
local program operators of entrepreneurial education and
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self-employment training programs.
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(8) Other training activities or projects, or both | ||
training activities and
projects, related to the support, | ||
development, or evaluation of job training
programs, | ||
activities, and delivery systems, including training needs | ||
assessment
and design.
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(e) Grants shall be made on the terms and conditions that | ||
the Department
shall determine. No grant made under subsection | ||
(d), however, shall exceed 50%
of the direct costs of all | ||
approved training programs provided by the employer
or the | ||
employer's training agent or other entity as defined in | ||
subsection
(c). Under this Section, allowable costs include, | ||
but are not limited to:
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(1) Administrative costs of tracking, documenting, | ||
reporting, and
processing training funds or project costs.
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(2) Curriculum development.
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(3) Wages and fringe benefits of employees.
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(4) Training materials, including scrap product costs.
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(5) Trainee travel expenses.
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(6) Instructor costs, including wages, fringe | ||
benefits,
tuition, and travel expenses.
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(7) Rent, purchase, or lease of training equipment.
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(8) Other usual and customary training costs.
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(f) The Department may conduct Director will ensure that a | ||
minimum of one on-site grant
monitoring visits to visit is | ||
conducted by the Department either during the course of
the | ||
grant period or within 6 months following the end of the grant | ||
period.
The Department shall verify trainee employment dates | ||
and wages and to ensure that the grantee's financial management | ||
system is
structured to provide for accurate, current, and | ||
complete disclosure of the
financial results of the grant | ||
program in accordance with all provisions,
terms, and | ||
conditions contained in the grant contract. Each applicant | ||
must, on request by the Department, provide to the Department a | ||
notarized certification signed and dated by a duly authorized | ||
representative of the applicant, or that representative's | ||
authorized designee, certifying that all participating | ||
employees are employed at an Illinois facility and, for each | ||
participating employee, stating the employee's name and | ||
providing either (i) the employee's social security number or | ||
(ii) a statement that the applicant has adequate written | ||
verification that the employee is employed at an Illinois | ||
facility. The Department may audit the accuracy of submissions. | ||
Applicants sponsoring multi-company training grant programs | ||
shall obtain information meeting the requirement of this | ||
subsection from each participating company and provide it to | ||
the Department upon request.
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(g) The Director may establish and collect a schedule of
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charges from subgrantee entities and other system users under | ||
federal
job-training programs for participating in and | ||
utilizing the Department's
automated job-training program | ||
information systems if the systems and the
necessary | ||
participation and utilization are requirements of the federal
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job-training programs. All monies collected pursuant to this | ||
subsection
shall be deposited into the Title III Social | ||
Security and Employment Fund,
except that any moneys that may | ||
be necessary to pay liabilities outstanding
as of June 30, 2000 | ||
shall be deposited into the Federal Job-Training
Information | ||
Systems Revolving Fund.
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(Source: P.A. 90-454, eff. 8-16-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; | ||
91-476, eff.
8-11-99; 91-704, eff. 7-1-00.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law. | ||