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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0655 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 330 ILCS 50/1 | from Ch. 48, par. 186a |
| Amends the Veterans' Employment Representative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the qualifications and duties of a Veterans' Employment Representative. |
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| | SB0655 | | LRB104 06960 KTG 16997 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning military service.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Veterans' Employment Representative Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (330 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 186a) |
| 7 | | Sec. 1. Veteran services; representative. The The |
| 8 | | Department of Employment Security shall assign at least one |
| 9 | | full time Veterans' Employment Representative, defined by |
| 10 | | title and classification under the Personnel Code of Illinois, |
| 11 | | to each full service office of the employment service, to work |
| 12 | | exclusively in job counseling, training, and placement of |
| 13 | | veterans. Preference for these positions shall be given to |
| 14 | | qualified persons who have been members of the armed forces of |
| 15 | | the United States in times of hostilities with a foreign |
| 16 | | country. Any candidate for these positions shall be deemed to |
| 17 | | have met and satisfied examination admission requirements if |
| 18 | | the candidate served in the armed forces during times of |
| 19 | | hostilities with a foreign country and was honorably |
| 20 | | discharged therefrom due to a combat-related disability. The |
| 21 | | holder of such a position shall be administratively |
| 22 | | responsible to the local office manager, and his or her first |
| 23 | | line responsibility is functional supervision of all local |