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91_SB0680
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by adding
2 Section 9A-14.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
6 adding Section 9A-14 as follows:
7 (305 ILCS 5/9A-14 new)
8 Sec. 9A-14. Job skills enhancement pilot program.
9 (a) The Illinois Department shall establish a job skills
10 enhancement pilot program to provide newly employed current
11 and former recipients of aid under Article IV with training
12 to enable those recipients to do any one or more of the
13 following:
14 (1) Enhance their existing job-related skills.
15 (2) Gain additional or alternative job skills.
16 (3) Learn interpersonal communication and other
17 related skills.
18 (b) The pilot program must target unskilled and
19 semiskilled current and former recipients of aid under
20 Article IV who are newly employed in entry level positions
21 that have limited potential for advancement beyond entry
22 level. To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, a
23 person must meet all of the following requirements:
24 (1) The person must have been a recipient of aid
25 under Article IV within 18 months before the date the
26 person proposes to begin participating in the pilot
27 program.
28 (2) The person must have been employed in
29 entry-level employment for at least 6 months before the
30 date the person proposes to begin participating in the
31 pilot program and must provide satisfactory evidence of
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1 that employment status.
2 (3) The person must possess limited job skills.
3 (4) The person must have limited opportunity for
4 advancement in his or her current employment.
5 (c) A recipient's participation in the pilot program must
6 be voluntary. Every person participating in the pilot
7 program must sign a training agreement with the Illinois
8 Department.
9 (d) The Illinois Department must establish a pilot
10 program under this Section in each of 3 counties as follows:
11 (1) One pilot program in Cook County.
12 (2) One pilot program in a county that is contiguous
13 to Cook County.
14 (3) One pilot program in a county that is not
15 described in item (1) or (2).
16 (e) The Secretary of Human Services, in his or her
17 discretion and in consultation with the county department of
18 a county in which the pilot program is established under this
19 Section, may direct that the pilot program be administered by
20 the county department or through the State service delivery
21 area system under the federal Job Training Partnership Act.
22 As part of their administrative responsibilities under this
23 subsection, a county department or persons at a service
24 delivery area location must do all of the following:
25 (1) Manage each pilot program participant's training
26 plan.
27 (2) Maintain a database of appropriate vendors of
28 training services.
29 (3) Contract for training services to be provided
30 under the pilot program.
31 (4) Compile necessary fiscal reports on the pilot
32 program.