Sen. John G. Mulroe

Filed: 12/3/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1041

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1041 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5changing Section 802 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 405/802)  (from Ch. 48, par. 472)
7    Sec. 802. Appointment of referees and providing legal
8services in disputed claims.
9    A. To hear and decide disputed claims, the Director shall
10obtain an adequate number of impartial Referees selected in
11accordance with the provisions of the "Personnel Code" enacted
12by the Sixty-ninth General Assembly. No person shall
13participate on behalf of the Director or the Board of Review in
14any case in which he is an interested party. The Director shall
15provide the Board of Review and such Referees with proper
16facilities and supplies and with assistants and employees

 

 

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1(selected in accordance with the provisions of the "Personnel
2Code" enacted by the Sixty-ninth General Assembly) necessary
3for the execution of their functions.
4    B. As provided in Section 1700.1, effective January 1,
51989, the Director shall establish a program for providing
6services by licensed attorneys at law to advise and represent,
7at hearings before the Referee, the Director or the Director's
8Representative, or the Board of Review, "small employers", as
9defined in rules promulgated by the Director, and issued
10pursuant to the results of the study referred to in Section
111700.1, and individuals who have made a claim for benefits with
12respect to a week of unemployment, whose claim has been
13disputed, and who are eligible under rules promulgated by the
14Director which are issued pursuant to the results of the study
15referred to in Section 1700.1.
16    For the period beginning July 1, 1994, and extending
17through June 30, 1996, no legal services shall be provided
18under the program established under this subsection.
19    For the period beginning July 1, 1990, and extending
20through June 30, 1991, no legal services shall be provided
21under the program established pursuant to this subsection.
22    For all or any part of the period commencing as of the
23first day of the first week for which benefits are no longer
24payable in the State pursuant to the federal Supplemental
25Appropriations Act, 2008, and extending through June 30, 2014,
26the Director may suspend the programs established pursuant to

 

 

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1this subsection B if, in the Director's judgment, the
2suspension is necessary to assist in offsetting the loss of
3federal grants attributable to the fact that the benefits are
4no longer payable. In the event of the suspension of a program
5pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, a
6provider of services under the program shall be entitled to
7compensation upon submission of invoices and proof of claim for
8supplies and services provided in compliance with its contract
9under the program, up to and including the date of suspension.
10(Source: P.A. 88-655, eff. 9-16-94; 89-21, eff. 6-6-95.)
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.".