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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2081
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2081 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 1. This Act may be cited as the Education, Job
5 Training, Placement, Retention, and Re-Employment Act.
6 Section 5. Legislative findings and purpose.
7 (a) The Illinois Department of Public Aid has developed
8 a Plan for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to
9 replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program
10 and to implement the federal Personal Responsibility and Work
11 Opportunity Act of 1996.
12 (b) The new Department of Human Services is the lead
13 agency in implementing the State TANF Plan. Its mission is
14 to "enable Illinois residents to achieve maximum
15 self-sufficiency and independence by providing integrated
16 family-oriented services, partnering with communities, and
17 measuring outcomes".
18 (c) The TANF Plan categorizes welfare recipients into
19 three groups: Not Job Ready, Job Ready, and Working and sets
20 time limits on receiving assistance for recipients of cash
21 assistance ranging from 24 months, under the Targeted Work
22 Initiative for parents (both Job Ready and Not Job
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1 Ready) whose youngest child is age 13 or older, up to a 60
2 month lifetime limit for all Illinois families (both Job
3 Ready and Not Job Ready) and their children. Only 10% of the
4 current caseload of 150,000 that is not working is estimated
5 to be Job Ready at this time.
6 (d) The clock on all of these time limits will begin to
7 run as to all recipients of cash assistance in August of
8 1997.
9 (e) The TANF Plan addresses job training and other
10 services necessary to move both Job Ready and Not Job Ready
11 welfare recipients into the workforce by planning on asking
12 each area of the State "to develop, coordinate, and target
13 resources needed to serve the population in the area....to
14 develop a local service delivery plan".
15 (f) This Act targets some of Illinois' extensive
16 education, job training, placement, retention and
17 re-employment resources necessary to the accomplishment of
18 the aims of the TANF Plan, in order to assure that adequate
19 resources will be available and in place in communities to
20 implement plans to move families from welfare to work
21 starting in August of 1997.
22 Section 10. Applicability. This Act applies to the
23 following: the Illinois State Board of Education, the
24 Illinois Community College Board, the Department of Commerce
25 and Community Affairs, the Illinois Department of
26 Transportation, the Illinois Department of Labor, the
27 Department of Veterans Affairs, the Prairie State 2000
28 Authority, the Department of Children and Family Services,
29 the Department of Employment Security, the Secretary of
30 State, and the Department of Rehabilitation Services, or the
31 Department of Human Services as its successor agency, each of
32 which is currently in receipt of substantial funding,
33 including State general revenue funds, for adult education,
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1 job training, and related services.
2 Section 15. Definitions.
3 "Additional barriers to employment" means, but is not
4 limited to, alcoholism or substance abuse history, a criminal
5 record, current or recent history of being a victim of
6 domestic violence, history of incest or other abuse, partial
7 disability or health or mental health problems, or having
8 been in receipt of cash welfare benefits or unemployed for a
9 period in excess of five years.
10 "Affected agency" means each agency of State government
11 to which this Act applies, as set forth in Section 10.
12 "Community-based providers" means not-for-profit
13 organizations with local boards of directors that provide
14 some or all of the job services defined herein.
15 "Education and job training services" means instruction
16 in literacy, English as a Second Language, Adult Basic and
17 Secondary Education, General Educational Development (GED)
18 preparation, job readiness, interviewing and resume
19 preparation, job seeking, soft skills, and vocational skills
20 and apprenticeship training in the classroom and on-the-job.
21 "Job placement services" means identifying jobs in which
22 there are open positions and which correspond with the
23 education, training, and experience of the people enrolled in
24 the affected agency's job training program, coordination of
25 client referrals to identified employers, assistance in
26 making application for open jobs, and follow-up assistance
27 with clients through the application process.
28 "Job retention counseling and services" means counseling,
29 career advancement services, direct services, and
30 coordination of services designed to help newly employed
31 workers keep their jobs, through job counselors, job support
32 groups, and job mentors who assist these workers in resolving
33 problems that arise on their jobs as well as with personal or
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1 practical problems, such as with transportation or day care,
2 that could affect their ability to keep their jobs.
3 "Job services" means education and training services, job
4 placement services, job retention and counseling and
5 services, and re-employment services as defined in this Act.
6 "Re-employment services" means job training and placement
7 services designed to help individuals who have lost their
8 jobs or who are employed to find new jobs quickly.
9 "Soft skills training" means training related to
10 punctuality, proper work attire, work habits, appropriate
11 on-the-job problem solving and conflict resolution, and
12 understanding and abiding by employer rules.
13 "Welfare recipients" means persons who are receiving
14 welfare or have received welfare assistance within the
15 previous two years, and non-custodial parents of children
16 receiving welfare assistance who are unemployed or employed
17 at the poverty level or below.
18 Section 20. Duties of affected agencies.
19 (a) Each affected agency shall immediately develop a
20 plan which:
21 (1) identifies separately all budgeted resources
22 currently being used for education and job training
23 services, job placement services, job retention and
24 counseling services, and re-employment services for all
25 populations and for welfare recipients;
26 (2) notwithstanding any other provision of State
27 law, targets job services for welfare recipients;
28 (3) includes programming for welfare recipients
29 with additional barriers to employment;
30 (4) adds, to programs where it is not currently
31 included, job readiness, soft skills, job retention
32 services, and re-employment services to its offering of
33 job services;
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1 (5) specifies how it will work with, at the local
2 level, business and industry to correspond its job
3 service programming with their specific local labor
4 demands, in the context of employers' openings and
5 available job titles and the education and skills needed
6 for those job titles;
7 (6) seeks waivers of any federal laws that
8 interfere with the accomplishment of targeting job
9 service resources; and
10 (7) shall be implemented by July 1, 1997 and shall,
11 at that time, be submitted to the General Assembly and
12 the Governor and shall be made available to the public.
13 (b) In carrying out their duties under this Act, each
14 affected agency shall make maximum use of experienced
15 community-based providers of job services by contracting with
16 these providers to provide these services to the maximum
17 extent that the capacity of these providers allows.
18 Section 25. Performance-based programming; evaluations.
19 (a) All job services provided by affected agencies shall
20 be subject to performance-based evaluations, whether the
21 services are provided directly by the affected agency or
22 through contracts.
23 (b) Each affected agency shall be responsible for
24 setting minimal outcomes for each program it operates and for
25 collecting and collating outcome data for each of its program
26 sites. Separate minimal outcomes shall be developed for:
27 (1) programs that serve people with a steady past
28 work history;
29 (2) programs that serve people who are welfare
30 recipients; and
31 (3) programs that serve people with additional
32 barriers to employment.
33 (c) Each affected agency shall require each program site
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1 within its jurisdiction to submit to it on an annual basis,
2 for each of the three populations described in subsection (b)
3 of this Section, broken down by demographic groups served
4 (which shall include persons on welfare, persons on welfare
5 within the last two years, and persons who are the
6 non-custodial parents described in this Act, and each other
7 discrete demographic population served, whether by mandate or
8 program design), and further broken down by race and gender,
9 the following:
10 (1) the number of persons who entered the job
11 training program;
12 (2) the number of persons who completed the job
13 training program;
14 (3) the number who obtained employment within two
15 months of completion and their average and median wages;
16 (4) the number who obtained employment within six
17 months of completion and their average and median wages;
18 (5) the number from paragraphs (3) and (4) who
19 retained their initial jobs after 12 months; and
20 (6) the number from paragraphs (3) and (4) who lost
21 their jobs within the first year, and of those the number
22 who were re-employed, and their average and median number
23 of weeks between jobs, and their average and median wages
24 after re-employment.
25 (c) Each affected agency shall demonstrate the extent to
26 which its job services are being provided by community-based
27 providers
28 (d) Each affected agency shall provide a summary of the
29 data it has collected from its program sites to the Governor
30 and the 4 leaders of the General Assembly, which shall
31 include a ranking by outcomes of each program site (broken
32 down by those with a work history, those on welfare, and
33 those with additional barriers to employment), no later than
34 January 31 of each year.
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1 (e) Each affected agency shall annually evaluate its
2 programs and contracting policies either to improve or cancel
3 the programs and services that are provided by program sites
4 that either do not meet the agency's minimal outcomes or fall
5 within the lower 40% of overall outcomes (separately
6 considering programs and services serving people with a
7 steady work history, on welfare, and with additional barriers
8 to employment).
9 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10 becoming law.".