HB4407 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB4407

Introduced , by Rep. Greg Harris

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

305 ILCS 5/4-21

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sanctions against TANF recipients.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public aid.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by changing Section 4-21 as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/4-21)

Sec. 4-21. Sanctions.

(a) The The Illinois Department shall, by rule, establish a system of sanctions for persons who fail to cooperate, without good cause, with employment and training programs or other programs under this Article or Article IXA or who fail to cooperate with child support programs under this Article, Article X, or Title IV of the federal Social Security Act. The sanctions may discontinue all or part of the cash grant provided under this Article. The sanctions may be time limited or continue until the person cooperates in the program. The sanctions may be progressive in that a second, third, or further sanction may be progressively more severe or last longer.

(b) The Illinois Department shall, by rule, define what constitutes failure to cooperate and what constitutes good cause which would excuse that failure.

(Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)