95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2413

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Jack D. Franks

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 505/5c

    Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning direct child welfare service employee licenses.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5 by changing Section 5c as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 505/5c)
7     Sec. 5c. Direct child welfare service employee license.
8     (a) By January 1, 2000, the the Department, in consultation
9 with private child welfare agencies, shall develop and
10 implement a direct child welfare service employee license. By
11 January 1, 2001 all child protective investigators and
12 supervisors and child welfare specialists and supervisors
13 employed by the Department or its contractors shall be required
14 to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to obtain and
15 maintain the license. The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee
16 License Board of the Department shall have the authority to
17 revoke or suspend the license of anyone who after a hearing is
18 found to be guilty of misfeasance. The Department shall
19 promulgate such rules as necessary to implement this Section.
20     (b) If a direct child welfare service employee licensee is
21 expected to transport a child or children with a motor vehicle
22 in the course of performing his or her duties, the Department
23 must verify that the licensee meets the requirements set forth

 

 

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1 in Section 5.1 of the Child Care Act of 1969. The Department
2 must make that verification as to each such licensee every 2
3 years. Upon the Department's request, the Secretary of State
4 shall provide the Department with the information necessary to
5 enable the Department to make the verifications required under
6 this subsection. If the Department discovers that a direct
7 child welfare service employee licensee has engaged in
8 transporting a child or children with a motor vehicle without
9 having a valid driver's license, the Department shall
10 immediately revoke the individual's direct child welfare
11 service employee license.
12     (c) On or before January 1, 2000, and every year
13 thereafter, the Department shall submit an annual report to the
14 General Assembly on the implementation of this Section.
15 (Source: P.A. 94-943, eff. 1-1-07.)