95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1721

 

Introduced 2/9/2007, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 1015/1d   from Ch. 48, par. 177

    Amends the Public Employment Office Act. Deletes obsolete references to the Department of Public Welfare in the Section concerning the Department of Employment Security's duty to seek employment of discharged convicts or prisoners. Deletes redundant language.


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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 Public Employment Office Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1d as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 1015/1d)  (from Ch. 48, par. 177)
7     Sec. 1d. It shall be the duty of the Department of
8 Employment Security to obtain from the Department of Public
9 Welfare, ninety days before the discharge of any convict from
10 either penitentiary, or the discharge of a prisoner from the
11 reformatory, the name, occupation, and such other information
12 as may be of aid in obtaining employment for such discharged
13 convict or prisoner.
14     The Department of Employment Security, through the several
15 free employment offices, shall seek to provide proper
16 employment for discharged convicts or prisoners, so that such
17 employment may be available at the time of such discharge, and
18 shall assist such discharged prisoners to retain suitable
19 employment for such reasonable time as will afford such
20 prisoners an opportunity to become self-reliant, to the end
21 that every man shall be encouraged in his effort to go
22 straight. In no instance shall there be any misrepresentation
23 as to the records of persons for whom employment is sought,

 

 

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1 under the provisions of this Section.
2     The Department of Employment Security through the several
3 free employment offices shall also co-operate with the
4 Department of Corrections Public Welfare to secure suitable
5 employment for paroled convicts or prisoners and discharged
6 convicts or prisoners and to help them retain such employment
7 during the period of their parole and for such reasonable time
8 thereafter as shall afford such convicts or prisoners an
9 opportunity to become self-reliant.
10 (Source: P.A. 83-1503.)