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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 806
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 806 on page 1,  by
 3    replacing lines 1 and 2 with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to amend certain Acts in relation to support.";
 5    and
 6    on page 27, by inserting after line 15 the following:
 7        "Section 10. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
 8    adding Section 1801.1 as follows:
 9        (820 ILCS 405/1801.1 new)
10        Sec. 1801.1.  Directory of New Hires.
11        A.  The Director shall establish and operate an automated
12    directory of newly hired employees which shall  be  known  as
13    the "Illinois Directory of New Hires" which shall contain the
14    information  required  to  be  reported  by  employers to the
15    Department under subsection B.  The Department  shall,  on  a
16    quarterly  basis,  furnish  to  the National Directory of New
17    Hires administered by the United States Department of  Health
18    and  Human  Services  information  contained  in the Illinois
19    Directory of New Hires concerning the wages and  unemployment
20    compensation  paid  to  individuals,  by  such dates, in such
21    format,  and  concerning  such  other  information   as   the
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 1    Secretary  of  Health  and  Human  Services  shall specify in
 2    regulations.  In the administration  of  the  Directory,  the
 3    Director  shall  comply  with any requirements concerning the
 4    Employer New Hire Reporting Program established by the United
 5    States Secretary of Health and Human Services in interpreting
 6    the provisions of the  federal  Personal  Responsibility  and
 7    Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.  The Director is
 8    authorized  to use the information contained in the Directory
 9    of New Hires to administer any of the provisions of this Act.
10        B.  Each  employer  in  Illinois,  except  a  department,
11    agency, or instrumentality of the United States,  shall  file
12    with the Department a report in accordance with rules adopted
13    by  the Department (but, in any event, not later than 20 days
14    after the date the employer hires the  employee,  or  in  the
15    case  of  an  employer  transmitting  reports magnetically or
16    electronically, by 2 monthly transmissions, if necessary, not
17    less than 12 days nor more than 16 days apart) the  following
18    information   concerning   each  newly  hired  employee:  the
19    employee's name, address, and social security number, and the
20    employer's name,  address,  Federal  Employer  Identification
21    Number  assigned  under  Section 6109 of the Internal Revenue
22    Code of 1986, and such other information  that  the  Director
23    shall  require  by  rule,  provided  that,  each employer may
24    voluntarily file the date of new hire,  and  the  address  to
25    which  the  employer  wants  income  withholding orders to be
26    mailed, if it is different from  the  address  given  on  the
27    Federal Employer Identification Number. Employers in Illinois
28    which  transmit  their reports electronically or magnetically
29    and which also have employees in another state may report all
30    newly hired employees to a single designated state  in  which
31    the  employer  has  employees  if  it  has  so  notified  the
32    Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human
33    Services   in  writing.   Each  report  required  under  this
34    subsection shall be made on an Internal Revenue Service  Form
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 1    W-4  or,  at  the option of the employer, an equivalent form,
 2    and may be transmitted by first class mail, magnetically,  or
 3    electronically.
 4        C.  An  employer which knowingly fails to comply with the
 5    reporting requirements established by this Section  shall  be
 6    subject  to  a civil penalty of $15 per each individual which
 7    it fails to report.  An employer shall be considered to  have
 8    knowingly  failed  to  comply with the reporting requirements
 9    established by this Section with respect to an individual  if
10    the employer has been notified by the Department by certified
11    mail  that  it  has  failed  to  report an individual, and it
12    knowingly fails, without  reasonable  cause,  to  supply  the
13    required  information  to the Department within 21 days after
14    the date  of  mailing  of  the  notice.  Any  individual  who
15    knowingly  conspires  with  the newly hired employee to cause
16    the employer to fail to report the  information  required  by
17    this  Section or who knowingly conspires with the newly hired
18    employee to cause the employer to file a false or  incomplete
19    report  shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor, with a fine
20    not to  exceed  $500  with  respect  to  each  individual  so
21    conspiring.
22        D.  As used in this Section:
23        "Newly  hired  employee"  means  an  individual who is an
24    employee within the meaning of Chapter  24  of  the  Internal
25    Revenue  Code  of  1986,  and  whose  reporting to work which
26    results in earnings from the employer is the  first  instance
27    within  the  preceding  180  days  that  the  individual  has
28    reported  for work and received earnings with respect to such
29    work  from  that  employer,  provided,  however,  that   this
30    definition does not include an employee of a federal or State
31    agency   performing   intelligence   or   counterintelligence
32    functions,  if the head of the agency has determined that the
33    filing of the report required by this Section with respect to
34    the employee could endanger the safety of  or  compromise  an
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 1    ongoing investigation or intelligence mission.
 2        Notwithstanding Section 205, and for the purposes of this
 3    Section  only,  the  term "employer" has the meaning given by
 4    Section 3401(d) of the Internal  Revenue  Code  of  1986  and
 5    includes  any  governmental  entity and labor organization as
 6    defined by Section 2(5) of the National Labor Relations  Act,
 7    and  includes  any entity (also known as a hiring hall) which
 8    is used by the organization and an employer to carry out  the
 9    requirements  described  in Section 8(f)(3) of such Act of an
10    agreement between the organization and the employer.".

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