SB1721 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Employment Office Act is amended by changing Section 1d as follows:

(20 ILCS 1015/1d) (from Ch. 48, par. 177)

Sec. 1d. It shall be the duty of the Department of Employment Security to obtain from the Department of Public Welfare, ninety days before the discharge of any convict from either penitentiary, or the discharge of a prisoner from the reformatory, the name, occupation, and such other information as may be of aid in obtaining employment for such discharged convict or prisoner.

The Department of Employment Security, through the several free employment offices, shall seek to provide proper employment for discharged convicts or prisoners, so that such employment may be available at the time of such discharge, and shall assist such discharged prisoners to retain suitable employment for such reasonable time as will afford such prisoners an opportunity to become self-reliant, to the end that every man shall be encouraged in his effort to go straight. In no instance shall there be any misrepresentation as to the records of persons for whom employment is sought, under the provisions of this Section.

The Department of Employment Security through the several free employment offices shall also co-operate with the Department of Corrections Public Welfare to secure suitable employment for paroled convicts or prisoners and discharged convicts or prisoners and to help them retain such employment during the period of their parole and for such reasonable time thereafter as shall afford such convicts or prisoners an opportunity to become self-reliant.

(Source: P.A. 83-1503.)