97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3660
 
Introduced 2/10/2012, by Sen. Mattie Hunter
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
 
30 ILCS 757/Act rep.
525 ILCS 50/10 new

     Amends the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Relocates the Community Youth Employment Program to the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources instead of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall administer the competitive grant program to provide up to 5,000 youths with stipends or wages, or both, and supervision for up to a 10-week summer work program. Repeals the Community Youth Employment Act. Effective immediately.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning conservation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    (30 ILCS 757/Act rep.) 
5    Section 5. The Community Youth Employment Act is repealed.
 
6    Section 10. The Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment 
7Act of 1986 is amended  by adding Section 10 as follows:
 
8    (525 ILCS 50/10 new)
9    Sec. 10. Community Youth Employment Program.
10    (a) The Department of Natural Resources shall administer a 
11competitive grant program that shall provide 5,000 youths with 
12stipends or wages, or both, and supervision for up to a 10-week 
13summer work period. The grants shall be awarded only to summer 
14programs, of no more than 100 youths, that:
15        (1) are created and administered by a
     community-based 
16    organization, not-for-profit organization, educational 
17    institution, or governmental entity in Illinois through a 
18    public-private partnership;
19        (2) utilize resources and facilities of the 
20    Department;
21        (3) employ low-income youths in Illinois between the
     
22    ages of 14 and 21; and 
 
 
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1        (4) involve age-appropriate, ability-appropriate, and
     
2    experience-appropriate:
3            (A) job training;
4            (B) life skills;
5            (C) education counseling;
6            (D) work readiness skills; or
7            (E) supervised meaningful work experience
         
8        projects.
9    (b) Grant money awarded under this Section shall be used as 
10follows:
11        (1) a stipend of $7.50 per hour for learning
     activities 
12    and at least minimum wage for meaningful work experience 
13    for a maximum of 200 hours per participating youth, to be 
14    paid over a 10-week period;
15        (2) to provide salary for supervisors for each
     summer 
16    program;
17        (3) for supportive services, including, but not 
18    limited to,
     transportation and child care; and
19        (4) a 10% overhead, per summer program, to provide
     for 
20    insurance and business necessities. 
21    (c) Any entity receiving a grant under this Section must 
22provide services to the youths receiving stipends or wages, or 
23both, under this Section. In providing the following services, 
24the entity must expend, out of the entity's budget, at least 
2520% of any amount awarded in paragraphs (2) through (4) of 
26subsection (b) of this Section to provide for services under 
 
 
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1this Section. The services provided must include:
2        (1) job assessment services;
3        (2) recreation services;
4        (3) job placement services; or
5        (4) administration of this youth program. 
6    The Department shall make public notification of the 
7availability of jobs for eligible youths and young adults in 
8the Community Youth Employment Program by the means of 
9newspapers, electronic media, educational facilities, and 
10units of local government. 
 
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
12becoming law.