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1 | AN ACT concerning military affairs.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
5 | Military Family Interstate Compact Implementation Statute | ||||||
6 | Drafting Advisory Committee Act. | ||||||
7 | Section 5. Committee; created; mandate. The Military | ||||||
8 | Family Interstate Compact Implementation Statute Drafting | ||||||
9 | Advisory Committee is created as an interagency advisory | ||||||
10 | committee to develop a comprehensive statute to implement the | ||||||
11 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military | ||||||
12 | Children, a document developed by the National Military Family | ||||||
13 | Association. The Lieutenant Governor is the chair of the | ||||||
14 | Committee, which shall be composed of the following individuals | ||||||
15 | or agency designees: | ||||||
16 | (1) The Lieutenant Governor.
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17 | (2) The Illinois State Board of Education. | ||||||
18 | (3) The Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
19 | Opportunity. | ||||||
20 | (4) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
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21 | (5) The Housing Development Authority.
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22 | (6) The Department of Veterans' Affairs.
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23 | (7) The Department of Military Affairs.
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1 | (8) The Department of Labor.
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2 | (9) Any other interested stakeholder, at the | ||||||
3 | discretion of the chair.
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4 | The Committee shall meet at a time and place designated by | ||||||
5 | the chair, but in no case shall the Committee meet less often | ||||||
6 | than once each month, until it has fulfilled all the | ||||||
7 | obligations delineated in this Act. | ||||||
8 | All meetings of the Committee are subject to the provisions | ||||||
9 | of the Open Meetings Act. | ||||||
10 | All proceedings of the Committee and documents produced by | ||||||
11 | the Committee are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of | ||||||
12 | Information Act. | ||||||
13 | The Committee shall draft and submit to the General | ||||||
14 | Assembly a model implementation statute and a report outlining | ||||||
15 | all the issues raised by the implementation by no later than | ||||||
16 | December 31, 2008 or within 90 days after the effective date of | ||||||
17 | this Act, whichever is later. | ||||||
18 | The Office of the Lieutenant Governor shall provide staff | ||||||
19 | and administrative support to the Committee. | ||||||
20 | Section 90. The Department of Veterans Affairs Act is | ||||||
21 | amended by adding Section 30 as follows: | ||||||
22 | (20 ILCS 2805/30 new) | ||||||
23 | Sec. 30. Task Force on Servicemember and Veterans | ||||||
24 | Education. |
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1 | (a) The Task Force on Servicemember and Veterans Education | ||||||
2 | is created. The Task Force shall be chaired by the Lieutenant | ||||||
3 | Governor and shall consist of the following members: | ||||||
4 | (1) one member appointed by the Governor; | ||||||
5 | (2) one member appointed by the President of the | ||||||
6 | Senate; | ||||||
7 | (3) one member appointed by the Senate Minority Leader; | ||||||
8 | (4) one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of | ||||||
9 | Representatives; | ||||||
10 | (5) one member appointed by the House Minority Leader; | ||||||
11 | (6) one member appointed by the Director of Veterans' | ||||||
12 | Affairs; and | ||||||
13 | (7) one member designated by the Department of Military | ||||||
14 | Affairs, appointed by the Adjutant General. | ||||||
15 | Vacancies in the Task Force shall be filled by the initial | ||||||
16 | appointing authority. Task Force members shall serve without | ||||||
17 | compensation, but may be reimbursed from appropriations | ||||||
18 | available for that purpose for necessary expenses incurred in | ||||||
19 | performing duties associated with the Task Force. | ||||||
20 | Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
21 | Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Task Force must issue a | ||||||
22 | report to the General Assembly, including draft legislative | ||||||
23 | language and draft administrative rules, designed to do the | ||||||
24 | following: | ||||||
25 | (1) assist public universities and community colleges | ||||||
26 | throughout the State in developing an Internet-based |
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1 | curriculum of higher education courses for credit, | ||||||
2 | tailored specifically to the needs of active duty | ||||||
3 | servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed | ||||||
4 | Forces, with a particular emphasis on addressing the unique | ||||||
5 | needs of servicemembers who are stationed abroad; and | ||||||
6 | (2) create on-campus veterans' centers at each public | ||||||
7 | university and community college within the State to assist | ||||||
8 | veterans in applying for financial aid and other benefits | ||||||
9 | that may be available to them; on-campus centers shall be | ||||||
10 | staffed by veterans and those intimately familiar with the | ||||||
11 | needs and concerns of veterans. | ||||||
12 | Section 95. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by | ||||||
13 | changing Section 601 as follows: | ||||||
14 | (820 ILCS 405/601) (from Ch. 48, par. 431) | ||||||
15 | Sec. 601. Voluntary leaving. | ||||||
16 | A. An individual shall be ineligible for
benefits for the | ||||||
17 | week in which he has left work voluntarily without good
cause | ||||||
18 | attributable to the employing unit and, thereafter, until he | ||||||
19 | has become
reemployed and has had earnings equal to or in | ||||||
20 | excess of his current weekly
benefit amount in each of four | ||||||
21 | calendar weeks which are either for services
in employment, or | ||||||
22 | have been or will be reported pursuant to the provisions
of the | ||||||
23 | Federal Insurance Contributions Act by each employing unit for | ||||||
24 | which
such services are performed and which submits a statement |
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1 | certifying to that fact.
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2 | B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to an | ||||||
3 | individual
who has left work voluntarily:
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4 | 1. Because he is deemed physically unable to perform | ||||||
5 | his work by a licensed
and practicing physician, or has | ||||||
6 | left work voluntarily upon the advice of
a licensed and | ||||||
7 | practicing physician that assistance is necessary for the
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8 | purpose of caring for his spouse, child, or parent who is | ||||||
9 | in poor physical
health and such assistance will not allow | ||||||
10 | him to perform the usual and customary
duties of his | ||||||
11 | employment, and he has notified the employing unit of the
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12 | reasons for his absence;
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13 | 2. To accept other bona fide work and, after such | ||||||
14 | acceptance, the individual
is either not unemployed in each | ||||||
15 | of 2 weeks, or earns remuneration for such
work equal to at | ||||||
16 | least twice his current weekly benefit amount;
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17 | 3. In lieu of accepting a transfer to other work | ||||||
18 | offered to the individual
by the employing unit under the | ||||||
19 | terms of a collective bargaining agreement
or pursuant to | ||||||
20 | an established employer plan, program, or policy, if the
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21 | acceptance of such other work by the individual would | ||||||
22 | require the separation
from that work of another individual | ||||||
23 | currently performing it;
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24 | 4. Solely because of the sexual harassment of the | ||||||
25 | individual by another
employee. Sexual harassment means | ||||||
26 | (1) unwelcome sexual advances, requests
for sexual favors, |
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1 | sexually motivated physical contact or other conduct
or | ||||||
2 | communication which is made a term or condition of the | ||||||
3 | employment or
(2) the employee's submission to or rejection | ||||||
4 | of such conduct or communication
which is the basis for | ||||||
5 | decisions affecting employment, or (3) when such
conduct or | ||||||
6 | communication has the purpose or effect of substantially | ||||||
7 | interfering
with an individual's work performance or | ||||||
8 | creating an intimidating, hostile,
or offensive working | ||||||
9 | environment and the employer knows or should know of
the | ||||||
10 | existence of the harassment and fails to take timely and | ||||||
11 | appropriate
action;
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12 | 5. Which he had accepted after separation from other | ||||||
13 | work, and the work
which he left voluntarily would be | ||||||
14 | deemed unsuitable under the provisions
of Section 603;
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15 | 6. (a) Because the individual left work due to | ||||||
16 | circumstances resulting
from
the individual being a victim | ||||||
17 | of domestic violence as defined in Section 103 of
the | ||||||
18 | Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986; and provided, such | ||||||
19 | individual has
made reasonable efforts to preserve the | ||||||
20 | employment.
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21 | For the purposes of this paragraph 6, the individual | ||||||
22 | shall be treated as
being a victim of domestic violence if | ||||||
23 | the individual provides the following:
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24 | (i) written notice to the employing unit of the | ||||||
25 | reason for the
individual's
voluntarily leaving; and
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26 | (ii) to the Department provides:
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1 | (A) an order of protection or other | ||||||
2 | documentation of equitable relief
issued by a | ||||||
3 | court of competent jurisdiction; or
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4 | (B) a police report or criminal charges | ||||||
5 | documenting the domestic
violence; or
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6 | (C) medical documentation of the domestic | ||||||
7 | violence; or
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8 | (D) evidence of domestic violence from a | ||||||
9 | counselor, social worker,
health worker or | ||||||
10 | domestic violence shelter worker.
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11 | (b) If the individual does not meet the provisions of | ||||||
12 | subparagraph (a), the
individual shall be held to have | ||||||
13 | voluntarily terminated employment for the
purpose of | ||||||
14 | determining the individual's eligibility for benefits | ||||||
15 | pursuant to
subsection A.
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16 | (c) Notwithstanding any other provision to the | ||||||
17 | contrary, evidence of
domestic violence experienced by an | ||||||
18 | individual, including the individual's
statement and | ||||||
19 | corroborating evidence, shall not be disclosed by the | ||||||
20 | Department
unless consent for disclosure is given by the | ||||||
21 | individual.
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22 | 7. Because the individual left employment to accompany | ||||||
23 | a spouse who has been reassigned from one military | ||||||
24 | assignment to another. The employer's account, however, | ||||||
25 | shall not be charged for any benefits paid out to the | ||||||
26 | individual who leaves to accompany a spouse reassigned from |
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1 | one military assignment to another. | ||||||
2 | (Source: P.A. 93-634, eff. 1-1-04.)
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3 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
4 | becoming law.
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