Full Text of HB5368 95th General Assembly
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Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
Filed: 4/2/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5368
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5368 on page 2, | 3 |
| immediately above line 17, by inserting the following:
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| "Section 90. The Department of Veterans Affairs Act is | 5 |
| amended by adding Section 30 as follows: | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 2805/30 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 30. Task Force on Servicemember and Veterans | 8 |
| Education. | 9 |
| (a) The Task Force on Servicemember and Veterans Education | 10 |
| is created. The Task Force shall be chaired by the Lieutenant | 11 |
| Governor and shall consist of the following members: | 12 |
| (1) one member appointed by the Governor; | 13 |
| (2) one member appointed by the President of the | 14 |
| Senate; | 15 |
| (3) one member appointed by the Senate Minority Leader; | 16 |
| (4) one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of |
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| Representatives; | 2 |
| (5) one member appointed by the House Minority Leader; | 3 |
| (6) one member appointed by the Director of Veterans' | 4 |
| Affairs; and | 5 |
| (7) one member designated by the Department of Military | 6 |
| Affairs, appointed by the Adjutant General. | 7 |
| Vacancies in the Task Force shall be filled by the initial | 8 |
| appointing authority. Task Force members shall serve without | 9 |
| compensation, but may be reimbursed from appropriations | 10 |
| available for that purpose for necessary expenses incurred in | 11 |
| performing duties associated with the Task Force. | 12 |
| Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory | 13 |
| Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Task Force must issue a | 14 |
| report to the General Assembly, including draft legislative | 15 |
| language and draft administrative rules, designed to do the | 16 |
| following: | 17 |
| (1) assist public universities and community colleges | 18 |
| throughout the State in developing an Internet-based | 19 |
| curriculum of higher education courses for credit, | 20 |
| tailored specifically to the needs of active duty | 21 |
| servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed | 22 |
| Forces, with a particular emphasis on addressing the unique | 23 |
| needs of servicemembers who are stationed abroad; and | 24 |
| (2) create on-campus veterans' centers at each public | 25 |
| university and community college within the State to assist | 26 |
| veterans in applying for financial aid and other benefits |
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| that may be available to them; on-campus centers shall be | 2 |
| staffed by veterans and those intimately familiar with the | 3 |
| needs and concerns of veterans.
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| Section 95. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 601 as follows: | 6 |
| (820 ILCS 405/601) (from Ch. 48, par. 431) | 7 |
| Sec. 601. Voluntary leaving. | 8 |
| A. An individual shall be ineligible for
benefits for the | 9 |
| week in which he has left work voluntarily without good
cause | 10 |
| attributable to the employing unit and, thereafter, until he | 11 |
| has become
reemployed and has had earnings equal to or in | 12 |
| excess of his current weekly
benefit amount in each of four | 13 |
| calendar weeks which are either for services
in employment, or | 14 |
| have been or will be reported pursuant to the provisions
of the | 15 |
| Federal Insurance Contributions Act by each employing unit for | 16 |
| which
such services are performed and which submits a statement | 17 |
| certifying to that fact.
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| B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to an | 19 |
| individual
who has left work voluntarily:
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| 1. Because he is deemed physically unable to perform | 21 |
| his work by a licensed
and practicing physician, or has | 22 |
| left work voluntarily upon the advice of
a licensed and | 23 |
| practicing physician that assistance is necessary for the
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| purpose of caring for his spouse, child, or parent who is |
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| in poor physical
health and such assistance will not allow | 2 |
| him to perform the usual and customary
duties of his | 3 |
| employment, and he has notified the employing unit of the
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| reasons for his absence;
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| 2. To accept other bona fide work and, after such | 6 |
| acceptance, the individual
is either not unemployed in each | 7 |
| of 2 weeks, or earns remuneration for such
work equal to at | 8 |
| least twice his current weekly benefit amount;
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| 3. In lieu of accepting a transfer to other work | 10 |
| offered to the individual
by the employing unit under the | 11 |
| terms of a collective bargaining agreement
or pursuant to | 12 |
| an established employer plan, program, or policy, if the
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| acceptance of such other work by the individual would | 14 |
| require the separation
from that work of another individual | 15 |
| currently performing it;
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| 4. Solely because of the sexual harassment of the | 17 |
| individual by another
employee. Sexual harassment means | 18 |
| (1) unwelcome sexual advances, requests
for sexual favors, | 19 |
| sexually motivated physical contact or other conduct
or | 20 |
| communication which is made a term or condition of the | 21 |
| employment or
(2) the employee's submission to or rejection | 22 |
| of such conduct or communication
which is the basis for | 23 |
| decisions affecting employment, or (3) when such
conduct or | 24 |
| communication has the purpose or effect of substantially | 25 |
| interfering
with an individual's work performance or | 26 |
| creating an intimidating, hostile,
or offensive working |
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| environment and the employer knows or should know of
the | 2 |
| existence of the harassment and fails to take timely and | 3 |
| appropriate
action;
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| 5. Which he had accepted after separation from other | 5 |
| work, and the work
which he left voluntarily would be | 6 |
| deemed unsuitable under the provisions
of Section 603;
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| 6. (a) Because the individual left work due to | 8 |
| circumstances resulting
from
the individual being a victim | 9 |
| of domestic violence as defined in Section 103 of
the | 10 |
| Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986; and provided, such | 11 |
| individual has
made reasonable efforts to preserve the | 12 |
| employment.
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| For the purposes of this paragraph 6, the individual | 14 |
| shall be treated as
being a victim of domestic violence if | 15 |
| the individual provides the following:
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| (i) written notice to the employing unit of the | 17 |
| reason for the
individual's
voluntarily leaving; and
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| (ii) to the Department provides:
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| (A) an order of protection or other | 20 |
| documentation of equitable relief
issued by a | 21 |
| court of competent jurisdiction; or
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| (B) a police report or criminal charges | 23 |
| documenting the domestic
violence; or
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| (C) medical documentation of the domestic | 25 |
| violence; or
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| (D) evidence of domestic violence from a |
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| counselor, social worker,
health worker or | 2 |
| domestic violence shelter worker.
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| (b) If the individual does not meet the provisions of | 4 |
| subparagraph (a), the
individual shall be held to have | 5 |
| voluntarily terminated employment for the
purpose of | 6 |
| determining the individual's eligibility for benefits | 7 |
| pursuant to
subsection A.
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| (c) Notwithstanding any other provision to the | 9 |
| contrary, evidence of
domestic violence experienced by an | 10 |
| individual, including the individual's
statement and | 11 |
| corroborating evidence, shall not be disclosed by the | 12 |
| Department
unless consent for disclosure is given by the | 13 |
| individual.
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| 7. Because the individual left employment to accompany | 15 |
| a spouse who has been reassigned from one military | 16 |
| assignment to another. The employer's account, however, | 17 |
| shall not be charged for any benefits paid out to the | 18 |
| individual who leaves to accompany a spouse reassigned from | 19 |
| one military assignment to another. | 20 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-634, eff. 1-1-04.)".
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