Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

20 ILCS 505/5c

(20 ILCS 505/5c)

Sec. 5c. Direct child welfare service employee license.

(a) By January 1,
2000, the Department, in consultation with private child welfare agencies,
shall develop and implement a direct child welfare service employee license.
By January 1, 2001 all child protective investigators and supervisors and child
welfare specialists and supervisors employed by the Department or its
contractors shall be required to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to
obtain and maintain the license.  The Direct Child Welfare
Service Employee License Board of the Department shall have
the authority to
revoke or suspend the license of anyone who after a hearing is found to be
guilty of misfeasance.  The Department shall promulgate such rules as necessary
to implement this Section.

(b) If a direct child welfare service employee licensee is expected to transport a child or children with a motor vehicle in the course of performing the direct child welfare service employee licensee's duties, the Department must verify that the licensee meets the requirements set forth in Section 5.1 of the Child Care Act of 1969. The Department must make that verification as to each such licensee every 2 years. Upon the Department's request, the Secretary of State shall provide the Department with the information necessary to enable the Department to make the verifications required under this subsection. If the Department discovers that a direct child welfare service employee licensee has engaged in transporting a child or children with a motor vehicle without having a valid driver's license, the Department shall immediately revoke the individual's direct child welfare service employee license.

(c) On or before January 1, 2000, and every year thereafter, the Department shall
submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of this
Section.

(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)