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Full Text of SB3232  100th General Assembly

SB3232 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3232

 

Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Chapin Rose

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/1-7  from Ch. 23, par. 1-7
305 ILCS 5/12-4.51 new

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Creates a 5-year demonstration project within the Department of Human Services to provide an intensive workforce training program for entry level workers and a multi-generational healthy family initiative. Provides that the demonstration project shall be privately funded and shall be operated and maintained by a non-profit, community-based entity that shall provide wages earned by participants enrolled in the workforce training program as well as support services to families enrolled in the multi-generational healthy family initiative. Limits the number of participants in the demonstration to 500 and provides that participants shall qualify to have whatever financial assistance they receive from their participation in the demonstration excluded from consideration for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of assistance under the Code. Requires the selected community-based entity to comply with all applicable State and federal requirements and to develop and implement a research component to determine the effectiveness of the demonstration project in promoting and instilling self-sufficiency through its intensive workforce training program and multi-generational healthy family initiative. Contains provisions on reporting requirements and other matters.


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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,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 1-7 and by adding Section 12-4.51 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/1-7)  (from Ch. 23, par. 1-7)
7    Sec. 1-7. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for
8assistance under this Code, the Illinois Department, County
9Departments, and local governmental units shall exclude from
10consideration restitution payments, including all income and
11resources derived therefrom, made to persons of Japanese or
12Aleutian ancestry pursuant to the federal Civil Liberties Act
13of 1988 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island Restitution Act,
14P.L. 100-383.
15    (b) For purposes of any program or form of assistance where
16a person's income or assets are considered in determining
17eligibility or level of assistance, whether under this Code or
18another authority, neither the State of Illinois nor any entity
19or person administering a program wholly or partially financed
20by the State of Illinois or any of its political subdivisions
21shall include restitution payments, including all income and
22resources derived therefrom, made pursuant to the federal Civil
23Liberties Act of 1988 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island

 

 

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1Restitution Act, P.L. 100-383, in the calculation of income or
2assets for determining eligibility or level of assistance.
3    (c) For purposes of determining eligibility for or the
4amount of assistance under this Code, except for the
5determination of eligibility for payments or programs under the
6TANF employment, education, and training programs and the Food
7Stamp Employment and Training Program, the Illinois
8Department, County Departments, and local governmental units
9shall exclude from consideration any financial assistance
10received under any student aid program administered by an
11agency of this State or the federal government, by a person who
12is enrolled as a full-time or part-time student of any public
13or private university, college, or community college in this
14State.
15    (d) For purposes of determining eligibility for or the
16amount of assistance under this Code, except for the
17determination of eligibility for payments or programs under the
18TANF employment, education, and training programs and the SNAP
19Employment and Training Program, the Illinois Department,
20County Departments, and local governmental units shall exclude
21from consideration, for a period of 36 months, any financial
22assistance, including wages, that is provided to a person who
23is enrolled in a demonstration project that is privately funded
24and intended as a bridge to self-sufficiency by offering (i)
25intensive workforce support and training and (ii) support
26services for new and expectant parents that are intended to

 

 

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1foster multi-generational healthy families as described in
2Section 12-4.51.
3(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
4    (305 ILCS 5/12-4.51 new)
5    Sec. 12-4.51. Workforce training and healthy families
6demonstration project.
7    (a) Subject to funds provided for this purpose from private
8sources, there is a created a 5-year demonstration project
9within the Department of Human Services to provide an intensive
10workforce training program for entry level workers and a
11multi-generational healthy family initiative. The
12demonstration project shall be implemented no later than 6
13months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
14100th General Assembly and shall terminate 5 years after the
15initial date of implementation. The demonstration project
16shall be operated and maintained by a non-profit,
17community-based entity that shall provide the majority of the
18wages earned by participants enrolled in the workforce training
19program as well as support services to families, including new
20and expectant parents, enrolled in the multi-generational
21healthy family initiative. The total number of participants in
22the 5-year demonstration project at any one time shall not
23exceed 500. Participants enrolled in the workforce training
24program or the multi-generational healthy family initiative
25shall qualify to have whatever financial assistance they

 

 

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1receive from their participation excluded from consideration
2for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of
3assistance under this Code as provided in subsection (d) of
4Section 1-7. The selected entity must immediately notify the
5Department of Human Services or the Department of Healthcare
6and Family Services whenever a participant enrolled in the
7workforce training program or the multi-generational healthy
8family initiative leaves the demonstration project and ceases
9to participate in any of the programs under the demonstration
10making the participant ineligible to receive an exemption as
11provided in subsection (d) of Section 1-7.
12    (b) The entity selected to operate and maintain the
13demonstration project shall be a non-profit, community-based
14entity in good standing with the State that is located in a
15county with a population of less than 3,000,000. The selected
16entity must comply with all applicable State and federal
17requirements and must develop and implement a research
18component to determine the effectiveness of the demonstration
19project in promoting and instilling self-sufficiency through
20its intensive workforce training program and
21multi-generational healthy family initiative. The State shall
22not fund the research component outlined in the Section or any
23program under the demonstration project.
24    (c) Beginning one year after the initial implementation
25date of the demonstration project, and each year thereafter for
26the duration of the demonstration, the selected entity shall

 

 

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1submit a report to the Department of Human Services, the
2Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and the General
3Assembly that details the progress and effectiveness of the
4demonstration project and the demonstration's impact on
5instilling the value of self-sufficiency in participants. The
64th annual report shall also provide policy recommendations on
7best practices for and continued research on facilitating
8bridges to self-sufficiency. The 4th annual report may also
9include a recommendation on making the demonstration project
10permanent upon completion of the demonstration project period.