95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
SB1866
Introduced 10/2/2007, by Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $64,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services to increase the wages paid to employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services and to provide health insurance coverage to those employees and their dependents. Effective immediately.
LRB095 13876 DRJ 39641 b
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The sum of $64,200,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for funding the following:
(1) an additional $1.70 per hour to be paid to vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services for the purpose of increasing, by at least $1.00 per hour, the wages paid by those vendors to their employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services, in order to adjust for the statewide minimum wage increase; and
(2) an additional $1.33 per hour to be paid to vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services for the purpose of providing health insurance coverage to their employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services and to those employees' dependents.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.