Full Text of HB4370 95th General Assembly
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State Government Administration Committee
Filed: 4/8/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4370
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4370 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State | 5 |
| Employees Flex-Time Mentoring Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to enable | 7 |
| State employees to use vacation, personal, and sick leave time | 8 |
| to participate in certain well-established mentoring programs. | 9 |
| Section 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 10 |
| "Eligible State employee" means an individual who: | 11 |
| (1) is a permanent, non-contractual State employee; | 12 |
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| (2) has provided, without monetary remuneration, | 14 |
| mentoring services to a qualified mentoring program for not | 15 |
| less than one year before requesting mentoring leave. |
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| "Mentoring leave" means an eligible State employee's | 2 |
| vacation, personal, and sick time spent mentoring a child in a | 3 |
| qualified mentoring program. | 4 |
| "Qualified mentoring program" means a program that | 5 |
| finances, arranges for, and otherwise facilitates the | 6 |
| mentoring, by adults, on a one-to-one basis, of children who | 7 |
| are: | 8 |
| (1) enrolled in any school level between kindergarten | 9 |
| and the 12th grade; and | 10 |
| (2) under the age of 18. | 11 |
| Additionally, a qualified mentoring program must be a | 12 |
| not-for-profit, secular entity, organized under Section | 13 |
| 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. A | 14 |
| qualified mentoring program must also have been in existence | 15 |
| for at least 10 years before the effective date of this Act. | 16 |
| "State agency" has the same meaning as defined in Section | 17 |
| 1-7 of the Illinois State Auditing Act. | 18 |
| Section 15. Mentoring leave authorized. | 19 |
| (a) All State agencies may, within 180 days after the | 20 |
| effective date of this Act, permit eligible State employees to | 21 |
| take mentoring leave. No employee may take more than 40 hours | 22 |
| of mentoring leave in a calendar year. | 23 |
| (b) At the time he or she requests mentoring leave, an | 24 |
| eligible State employee must provide his or her supervisor with | 25 |
| written verification from a qualified mentoring program that |
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| the employee has performed at least one year of mentoring | 2 |
| services as required under the definition of "eligible State | 3 |
| employee". | 4 |
| (c) Within 180 days after the effective date of this Act, | 5 |
| each State agency that elects to permit mentoring flex time for | 6 |
| its employees must implement an application process by which an | 7 |
| eligible employee under its authority can apply for mentoring | 8 |
| leave. All participating State agencies retain unfettered | 9 |
| discretion to permit or deny an eligible employee's request for | 10 |
| mentoring leave. Participating agencies must take into account | 11 |
| the following factors in evaluating applications for mentoring | 12 |
| leave: | 13 |
| (1) the operational needs of the State; | 14 |
| (2) the budgetary concerns of the agency; and | 15 |
| (3) any limitations imposed by law. | 16 |
| Section 20. No rulemaking authority. Notwithstanding any | 17 |
| other rulemaking authority that may exist, neither the Governor | 18 |
| nor any agency or agency head under the jurisdiction of the | 19 |
| Governor has any authority to make or promulgate rules to | 20 |
| implement or enforce the provisions of this Act. If, however, | 21 |
| the Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or | 22 |
| enforce the provisions of this Act, the Governor may suggest | 23 |
| rules to the General Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of | 24 |
| the House and Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that | 25 |
| the General Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, enact |
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| those suggested rules into law, or take any other appropriate | 2 |
| action in the General Assembly's discretion. Nothing contained | 3 |
| in this Act shall be interpreted to grant rulemaking authority | 4 |
| under any other Illinois statute where such authority is not | 5 |
| otherwise explicitly given. For the purposes of this Act, | 6 |
| "rules" is given the meaning contained in Section 1-70 of the | 7 |
| Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, and "agency" and | 8 |
| "agency head" are given the meanings contained in Sections 1-20 | 9 |
| and 1-25 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to the | 10 |
| extent that such definitions apply to agencies or agency heads | 11 |
| under the jurisdiction of the Governor.".
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