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90_SB0756
305 ILCS 5/12-4.32 new
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the
Department of Public Aid, or the Department of Human
Services as successor agency to the Department of Public Aid
for purposes of administering job programs, shall operate a
program that will facilitate transportation for welfare
recipients and former welfare recipients to employment.
Provides for two programs, one in a city of over 500,000
residents and one in a rural area with limited public
transportation and details the support services that may be
provided. Provides that the program shall begin no later
than January 1, 1998 and details the information about
participants to be kept by the Department. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by adding
2 Section 12-4.32.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
6 adding Section 12-4.32 as follows:
7 (305 ILCS 5/12-4.32 new)
8 Sec. 12-4.32. Job transportation program.
9 (a) The Department shall operate a program that will
10 provide or facilitate transportation for welfare recipients
11 and former welfare recipients to employment that is outside
12 the area of the recipient's residence. The program shall be
13 targeted to residents of areas with a high concentration of
14 cash welfare recipients and to persons who meet financial
15 eligibility criteria for cash welfare payments, or receive
16 food stamps, or are former cash welfare recipients at risk of
17 returning to the cash welfare program.
18 (b) The Department shall operate no fewer than two
19 programs, one in an area with high concentrations of welfare
20 recipiency in a city of more than 500,000 residents; and one
21 in a rural area of the state with high concentrations of
22 welfare recipiency and no or inadequate public transportation
23 resources for job commuting. The Department may operate the
24 program in other areas of the state as well.
25 (c) The project may provide or support any or all of the
26 following services:
27 (1) van, bus, or carpooling services;
28 (2) financial support and coordination for
29 participants to acquire vehicles and to transport
30 themselves and other participants;
31 (3) emergency transportation services for
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1 participants who must leave work early or get to work
2 late due to illness, change in work schedule, family
3 emergency, a child care problem, or other emergency;
4 (4) start-up or ongoing services, programs, or
5 incentives designed to help employers to provide
6 round-trip transportation to participants who are their
7 employees or are job applicants.
8 (d) The Department may contract for coordination of all
9 or part of this program to community-based organizations with
10 a demonstrated history of creating transportation
11 opportunities for low income people and shall, whether
12 program coordination is contracted or not, coordinate the
13 program with such community-based organizations and
14 transportation providers.
15 (e) The program shall begin no later than January 1,
16 1998. The Department shall track participants and maintain
17 data on their participation, job history, welfare history,
18 and the impact of the program on participation in work and
19 welfare.
20 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21 becoming law.