94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0586

 

Introduced 01/27/05, by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/4-21

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sanctions against TANF recipients.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5 changing Section 4-21 as follows:
 
6     (305 ILCS 5/4-21)
7     Sec. 4-21. Sanctions.
8     (a) The The Illinois Department shall, by rule, establish a
9 system of sanctions for persons who fail to cooperate, without
10 good cause, with employment and training programs or other
11 programs under this Article or Article IXA or who fail to
12 cooperate with child support programs under this Article,
13 Article X, or Title IV of the federal Social Security Act. The
14 sanctions may discontinue all or part of the cash grant
15 provided under this Article. The sanctions may be time limited
16 or continue until the person cooperates in the program. The
17 sanctions may be progressive in that a second, third, or
18 further sanction may be progressively more severe or last
19 longer.
20     (b) The Illinois Department shall, by rule, define what
21 constitutes failure to cooperate and what constitutes good
22 cause which would excuse that failure.
23 (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)