96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB6434

 

Introduced 2/18/2010, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/4-0.5

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes technical changes in a Section describing the termination of the AFDC program and the beginning of the TANF program.


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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 4-0.5 as follows:
 
6     (305 ILCS 5/4-0.5)
7     Sec. 4-0.5. Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program
8 inoperative after June 30, 1997. The The Aid to Families with
9 Dependent Children (AFDC) Program shall be inoperative after
10 June 30, 1997. Under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy
11 Children Program the Illinois Department shall develop an
12 alternative program of mutual responsibility between the
13 Illinois Department and the client to allow the family to
14 become self-sufficient or employed as quickly as possible
15 through (i) the provision of transitional assistance to
16 families in the form of emergency one-time payments to prevent
17 job loss, temporary assistance while searching for or being
18 trained for work, or paternity establishment and child support
19 enforcement or (ii) the provision for continued work.
20 (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)