House Sponsors: HAMOS-DAVIS,MONIQUE-MCKEON. Short description: FAMILY LEAVE-TECH Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Creates the Shared-Cost Family Leave Program Act. Contains a short title only. STATE MANDATES NOTE, H-AM 1 (Department of Commerce and Community Affairs) In the opinion of DCCA, HB 497 (H-am 1) creates a local government organization and structure mandate for which reimbursement of the increased costs to local governments is not required under the State Mandates Act. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Department of Employment Security) The bill would authorize a maximum reimbursement of $6500 per employee on leave (i.e. a maximum reimbursement of $250 per week of qualified leave for up to 26 weeks). There are about 200,000 births and adoptions per year in Illinois. Therefore assuming only one person per birth or adoption receives leave payments that qualify, the costs for just the family leave por- tion of the bill could be as high as $1.3 billion annually. It is unknown how many individuals would qualify under the medical leave portion of the bill, but it would certainly add signifi- cantly to the maximum potential cost. It is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify how many reimbursed weeks would actually be payable if the bill is enacted. The bill does not identify a funding source or expected annual amount for these reimbursements. The administrative costs for PFMLA would not be chargeable to IDES's federal administrative grants. Non-Federal funds would have to appropriated and expended to cover the expense of ad- ministration, and PFMLA would also be required to pay its fair share of indirect costs. Based on the magnitude of this program relative to IDES unemployment tax administrative efforts and assuming the Department will not be required to collect the re- venues to support the program, the minimum PFMLA administrative costs would be approximately $10 million per year. Addition- ally, administration of PFMLA would jeopardize IDES use of fed- eral penalty mail, potentially requiring the agency to shift to commercial metering of agency mail, which could cost $500 thousand per year. Existing IDES equipment was purchased with federal grant monies, which means the use of this equipment of of PFMLA may be restricted or possibly even prohibited, requir- ing additional expenditures for the purchase of dedicated equipment. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: JAN-07-2003 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status