Full Text of SB2172 96th General Assembly
SB2172ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Susana A. Mendoza
Filed: 5/14/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2172
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2172 by replacing | 3 |
| line 6 on page 1 with the following:
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| "amended by changing Sections 605-25, 605-550, 605-675, and | 5 |
| 605-810 as follows:"; and | 6 |
| on page 3, immediately below line 8, by inserting the | 7 |
| following:
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| (20 ILCS 605/605-550) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.71)
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| Sec. 605-550.
Model domestic violence and sexual assault
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| employee awareness and assistance policy.
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| (a) The Department shall convene a task force including | 12 |
| members of the
business community, employees, employee | 13 |
| organizations, representatives from
the Department of Labor, | 14 |
| and directors of domestic violence and sexual assault
programs, | 15 |
| including representatives of statewide advocacy organizations |
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| for the
prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault, to | 2 |
| develop a model domestic
violence and sexual assault employee | 3 |
| awareness and assistance policy for
businesses.
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| The Department shall give due consideration to the | 5 |
| recommendations of the
Governor, the President of the Senate, | 6 |
| and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives for | 7 |
| participation by any person on the task force, and shall
make | 8 |
| reasonable efforts to assure regional balance in membership.
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| (b) The purpose of the model employee awareness and | 10 |
| assistance policy shall
be to provide businesses with the best | 11 |
| practices, policies, protocols, and
procedures in order that | 12 |
| they ascertain domestic violence and sexual assault
awareness | 13 |
| in the workplace, assist affected employees, and provide a safe | 14 |
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helpful working environment for employees currently or | 15 |
| potentially experiencing
the effects of domestic violence or | 16 |
| sexual assault. The model plan shall
include but not be limited | 17 |
| to:
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| (1) the establishment of a definite corporate policy | 19 |
| statement recognizing
domestic violence and sexual assault | 20 |
| as workplace issues as well as promoting
the need to | 21 |
| maintain job security for those employees currently | 22 |
| involved in
domestic violence or sexual assault disputes;
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| (2) policy and service publication requirements, | 24 |
| including posting these
policies and service availability | 25 |
| pamphlets in break rooms, on bulletin boards,
and in | 26 |
| restrooms, and transmitting them through other |
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| communication methods;
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| (3) a listing of current domestic violence and sexual | 3 |
| assault community
resources such as shelters, crisis | 4 |
| intervention programs, counseling and case
management | 5 |
| programs, and legal assistance and advocacy opportunities | 6 |
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affected employees;
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| (4) measures to ensure workplace safety including, | 8 |
| where appropriate,
designated parking areas, escort | 9 |
| services, and other affirmative safeguards;
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| (5) training programs and protocols designed to | 11 |
| educate employees and
managers in how to recognize, | 12 |
| approach, and assist employees experiencing
domestic | 13 |
| violence or sexual assault, including both victims and | 14 |
| batterers; and
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| (6) other issues as shall be appropriate and relevant | 16 |
| for the task force
in developing the model policy.
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| (c) The model policy shall be reviewed by the task force to | 18 |
| assure
consistency with existing law and shall be made the | 19 |
| subject of public hearings
convened by the Department | 20 |
| throughout the State at places and at times which
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| convenient for attendance by the public, after which the policy | 22 |
| shall be
reviewed by the task force and amended as necessary to | 23 |
| reflect concerns raised
at the hearings. If approved by the | 24 |
| task force, the model policy shall be
provided as approved with | 25 |
| explanation of its provisions to the Governor and the
General | 26 |
| Assembly not later than one year after the effective date of |
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| this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. The | 2 |
| Department shall make every
effort to notify businesses of the | 3 |
| availability of the model domestic violence
and sexual assault | 4 |
| employee awareness and assistance policy.
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| (d) The Department, in consultation with the task force, | 6 |
| providers of
services, the advisory council, the Department of | 7 |
| Labor, and representatives
of statewide advocacy organizations | 8 |
| for the prevention of domestic violence and
sexual assault, | 9 |
| shall provide technical support, information, and | 10 |
| encouragement
to businesses to implement the provisions of the | 11 |
| model.
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| (e) Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to | 13 |
| prevent businesses
from adopting their own domestic violence | 14 |
| and sexual assault employee awareness
and assistance policy.
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| (f) The Department may shall survey businesses within 4 | 16 |
| years of the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 91st | 17 |
| General Assembly to determine the level
of model policy | 18 |
| adoption amongst businesses and shall take steps necessary to
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| promote the further adoption of such policy.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-592, eff. 8-14-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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| (20 ILCS 605/605-675) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.66)
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| Sec. 605-675. Exporter award program. The Department may | 23 |
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establish and
operate, in cooperation with the Department | 24 |
| of Agriculture and the Illinois
Finance Authority, an annual | 25 |
| awards program to
recognize
Illinois-based exporters. In |
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| developing criteria for the awards, the
Department shall give | 2 |
| consideration to the exporting efforts of small and
medium | 3 |
| sized businesses, first-time exporters, and other appropriate
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| categories.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)
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| (20 ILCS 605/605-810) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)
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| Sec. 605-810. Reemployment of former employees. When the | 8 |
| Department is involved in developing a federal or State
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| training or retraining program for any employer, the Department | 10 |
| may will
assist and encourage that employer in making every | 11 |
| effort to reemploy
individuals previously employed at the | 12 |
| facility. Further, the Department may
will provide a list of | 13 |
| those employees to the
employer for
consideration
for | 14 |
| reemployment and will report the results of this effort to the | 15 |
| Illinois
Job Training Coordinating Council . This requirement | 16 |
| shall be in effect
when all of the following conditions are | 17 |
| met:
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| (1) The employer is reopening, or is proposing to | 19 |
| reopen, a
facility
that was last closed during the | 20 |
| preceding 2 years.
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| (2) A substantial number of the persons who were | 22 |
| employed at
the
facility before its most recent closure | 23 |
| remain unemployed.
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| (3) The product or service produced by, or proposed to | 25 |
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produced by,
the employer at the facility is |
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| substantially similar to the product or
service produced at | 2 |
| the facility before its most recent closure.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-454, eff. 8-16-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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| Section 10. The Energy Conservation and Coal Development | 5 |
| Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1105/8) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7408)
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| Sec. 8. Illinois Coal Development Board.
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| (a) There may shall be established as an advisory board to | 9 |
| the
Department, the Illinois Coal
Development Board, | 10 |
| hereinafter in this Section called the Board. The Board
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| be composed of the following voting members: the
Director of | 12 |
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Department, who shall be Chairman thereof; the Deputy | 13 |
| Director of the Bureau
of Business Development within the | 14 |
| Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; the President | 15 |
| of the University of Illinois or his or her designee; the | 16 |
| Director of
Natural
Resources or that Director's designee; the | 17 |
| Director of the Office of Mines and
Minerals within the | 18 |
| Department of Natural Resources;
4 members of the General | 19 |
| Assembly (one each appointed by the President of
the Senate, | 20 |
| the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the | 21 |
| House
Minority Leader); and 8
persons appointed by the | 22 |
| Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate,
including | 23 |
| representatives of Illinois
industries that are involved in the | 24 |
| extraction, utilization or transportation
of Illinois coal, |
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| persons representing financial or banking interests in the
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| State, and persons experienced in international business and | 3 |
| economic
development. These members shall be chosen from | 4 |
| persons of recognized ability
and experience in their | 5 |
| designated field. The members
appointed by the Governor shall | 6 |
| serve
for terms of 4 years, unless otherwise provided in this | 7 |
| subsection. The
initial terms of the original appointees shall | 8 |
| expire on July 1, 1985, except
that the Governor shall | 9 |
| designate 3 of the original appointees to serve initial
terms | 10 |
| that shall expire on July 1, 1983. The initial term of the | 11 |
| member
appointed by the Governor to fill the office created | 12 |
| after July 1, 1985 shall
expire on July 1, 1989. The initial | 13 |
| terms of the members appointed by the
Governor to fill the | 14 |
| offices created by this amendatory Act of 1993 shall
expire on | 15 |
| July 1, 1995, and July 1, 1997, as determined by the Governor.
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| A member appointed by
a Legislative Leader shall serve for the | 17 |
| duration of the General Assembly for
which he or she is | 18 |
| appointed, so long as the member remains a member of that
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| General Assembly.
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| The Board may shall meet at least annually or at the call | 21 |
| of the Chairman.
At any time the majority of the Board may | 22 |
| petition the Chairman for a meeting
of the Board. Nine members | 23 |
| of the Board shall constitute a
quorum. Members of the Board | 24 |
| shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary
expenses incurred | 25 |
| while performing their duties as members of the Board from
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| funds appropriated to the Department for such purpose.
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| (b) The Board shall provide advice and make recommendations | 2 |
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the following Department powers and duties:
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| (1) To develop an annual agenda which may include but | 4 |
| is not limited to
research and methodologies conducted for | 5 |
| the purpose of increasing the
utilization of Illinois' coal | 6 |
| and other fossil fuel resources, with
emphasis on high | 7 |
| sulfur coal, in the following areas: coal extraction,
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| preparation and characterization; coal technologies | 9 |
| (combustion,
gasification, liquefaction, and related | 10 |
| processes); marketing;
public awareness and education, as | 11 |
| those terms are used in the Illinois
Coal Technology | 12 |
| Development Assistance Act; transportation; procurement of
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| sites and issuance of permits; and environmental impacts.
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| (2) To support and coordinate Illinois coal research, | 15 |
| and to approve
projects consistent with the annual agenda | 16 |
| and budget for coal research and
the purposes of this Act | 17 |
| and to
approve the annual budget and operating plan
for | 18 |
| administration of the Board.
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| (3) To promote the coordination of available research | 20 |
| information on the
production, preparation, distribution | 21 |
| and uses of Illinois coal. The Board
shall advise the | 22 |
| existing research institutions within the State on areas
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| where research may be necessary.
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| (4) To cooperate to the fullest extent possible with | 25 |
| State and federal
agencies and departments, independent | 26 |
| organizations, and other interested
groups, public and |
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| private, for the purposes of promoting Illinois coal
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| resources.
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| (5) To submit an annual report to the Governor and the | 4 |
| General Assembly
outlining the progress and | 5 |
| accomplishments made in the year, providing an
accounting | 6 |
| of funds received and disbursed, reviewing the status of | 7 |
| research
contracts, and furnishing other relevant | 8 |
| information.
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| (6) To focus on existing coal research efforts in | 10 |
| carrying out its
mission; to make use of existing research
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| facilities in Illinois or other institutions carrying out | 12 |
| research on
Illinois coal; as far as practicable, to make
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| maximum
use of
the research facilities available at the | 14 |
| Illinois State Geological Survey of the University of | 15 |
| Illinois,
the Coal Extraction and Utilization Research | 16 |
| Center, the Illinois Coal
Development Park and | 17 |
| universities and colleges located within
the State of | 18 |
| Illinois; and to create
a
consortium or center which | 19 |
| conducts, coordinates and supports coal research
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| activities in the State of Illinois. Programmatic | 21 |
| activities of such a
consortium or center shall be subject | 22 |
| to approval by the Department and shall be
consistent with | 23 |
| the purposes of this Act. The Department may
authorize
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| expenditure of funds in support of the administrative and | 25 |
| programmatic
operations of such a center or consortium | 26 |
| consistent with its statutory
authority. Administrative |
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| actions undertaken by or for such a center or
consortium | 2 |
| shall be subject to the approval of the Department.
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| (7) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any | 4 |
| research under
this Act, to avoid duplication of effort and | 5 |
| expense by coordinating the
research efforts among various | 6 |
| agencies, departments, universities or
organizations, as | 7 |
| the case may be.
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| (8) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and | 9 |
| bylaws governing
the Board's organization and conduct of | 10 |
| business.
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| (9) To authorize the expenditure of monies from the | 12 |
| Coal Technology
Development Assistance Fund, the Public | 13 |
| Utility Fund and other funds in
the State Treasury | 14 |
| appropriated to the Department, consistent with the
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| purposes of this Act.
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| (10) To seek, accept, and expend gifts or grants in any | 17 |
| form, from any
public agency or from any other source. Such | 18 |
| gifts and grants may be held
in trust by the Department and | 19 |
| expended at the direction of the
Department and
in the | 20 |
| exercise of the Department's powers and performance of
the | 21 |
| Department's duties.
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| (11) To publish, from time to time, the results of | 23 |
| Illinois coal research
projects funded through the | 24 |
| Department.
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| (12) To authorize loans from appropriations from the | 26 |
| Build Illinois
Bond Purposes Fund, the Build Illinois Bond |
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| Fund and the Illinois
Industrial Coal Utilization Fund.
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| (13) To authorize expenditures of monies for coal | 3 |
| development projects
under the authority of Section 13 of | 4 |
| the General Obligation Bond Act.
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| (c) The Board shall also provide advice and make | 6 |
| recommendations on the following Department powers and duties:
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| (1) To create and maintain thorough, current and | 8 |
| accurate records on
all markets for and actual uses of coal | 9 |
| mined in Illinois, and to make such
records available to | 10 |
| the public upon request.
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| (2) To identify all current and anticipated future | 12 |
| technical,
economic, institutional, market, environmental, | 13 |
| regulatory and other
impediments to the utilization of | 14 |
| Illinois coal.
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| (3) To monitor and evaluate all proposals and plans of | 16 |
| public
utilities related to compliance with the | 17 |
| requirements of Title IV of the
federal Clean Air Act | 18 |
| Amendments of 1990, or with any other law which might
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| affect the use of Illinois coal, for the purposes of (i) | 20 |
| determining the
effects of such proposals or plans on the | 21 |
| use of Illinois coal, and (ii)
identifying alternative | 22 |
| plans or actions which would maintain or increase
the use | 23 |
| of Illinois coal.
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| (4) To develop strategies and to propose policies to | 25 |
| promote
environmentally responsible uses of Illinois coal | 26 |
| for meeting electric
power supply requirements and for |
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| other purposes.
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| (5) (Blank).
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| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06; 95-728, eff. date - See | 4 |
| Sec. 999.)".
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