97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB2101

 

Introduced 2/10/2011, by Sen. John G. Mulroe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 405/1900  from Ch. 48, par. 640

    Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that the Department of Employment Security shall make available to the Department of Central Management Services, Risk Management Division (in addition to State retirement systems), upon request, information in the possession of the Department that may be necessary or useful to the System or the Risk Management Division for the purpose of determining whether any recipient of a disability benefit from the System or a workers' compensation benefit from the Risk Management Division is gainfully employed. Effective immediately.


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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5changing Section 1900 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 405/1900)  (from Ch. 48, par. 640)
7    Sec. 1900. Disclosure of information.
8    A. Except as provided in this Section, information obtained
9from any individual or employing unit during the administration
10of this Act shall:
11        1. be confidential,
12        2. not be published or open to public inspection,
13        3. not be used in any court in any pending action or
14    proceeding,
15        4. not be admissible in evidence in any action or
16    proceeding other than one arising out of this Act.
17    B. No finding, determination, decision, ruling or order
18(including any finding of fact, statement or conclusion made
19therein) issued pursuant to this Act shall be admissible or
20used in evidence in any action other than one arising out of
21this Act, nor shall it be binding or conclusive except as
22provided in this Act, nor shall it constitute res judicata,
23regardless of whether the actions were between the same or

 

 

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1related parties or involved the same facts.
2    C. Any officer or employee of this State, any officer or
3employee of any entity authorized to obtain information
4pursuant to this Section, and any agent of this State or of
5such entity who, except with authority of the Director under
6this Section, shall disclose information shall be guilty of a
7Class B misdemeanor and shall be disqualified from holding any
8appointment or employment by the State.
9    D. An individual or his duly authorized agent may be
10supplied with information from records only to the extent
11necessary for the proper presentation of his claim for benefits
12or with his existing or prospective rights to benefits.
13Discretion to disclose this information belongs solely to the
14Director and is not subject to a release or waiver by the
15individual. Notwithstanding any other provision to the
16contrary, an individual or his or her duly authorized agent may
17be supplied with a statement of the amount of benefits paid to
18the individual during the 18 months preceding the date of his
19or her request.
20    E. An employing unit may be furnished with information,
21only if deemed by the Director as necessary to enable it to
22fully discharge its obligations or safeguard its rights under
23the Act. Discretion to disclose this information belongs solely
24to the Director and is not subject to a release or waiver by
25the employing unit.
26    F. The Director may furnish any information that he may

 

 

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1deem proper to any public officer or public agency of this or
2any other State or of the federal government dealing with:
3        1. the administration of relief,
4        2. public assistance,
5        3. unemployment compensation,
6        4. a system of public employment offices,
7        5. wages and hours of employment, or
8        6. a public works program.
9    The Director may make available to the Illinois Workers'
10Compensation Commission information regarding employers for
11the purpose of verifying the insurance coverage required under
12the Workers' Compensation Act and Workers' Occupational
13Diseases Act.
14    G. The Director may disclose information submitted by the
15State or any of its political subdivisions, municipal
16corporations, instrumentalities, or school or community
17college districts, except for information which specifically
18identifies an individual claimant.
19    H. The Director shall disclose only that information
20required to be disclosed under Section 303 of the Social
21Security Act, as amended, including:
22        1. any information required to be given the United
23    States Department of Labor under Section 303(a)(6); and
24        2. the making available upon request to any agency of
25    the United States charged with the administration of public
26    works or assistance through public employment, the name,

 

 

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1    address, ordinary occupation and employment status of each
2    recipient of unemployment compensation, and a statement of
3    such recipient's right to further compensation under such
4    law as required by Section 303(a)(7); and
5        3. records to make available to the Railroad Retirement
6    Board as required by Section 303(c)(1); and
7        4. information that will assure reasonable cooperation
8    with every agency of the United States charged with the
9    administration of any unemployment compensation law as
10    required by Section 303(c)(2); and
11        5. information upon request and on a reimbursable basis
12    to the United States Department of Agriculture and to any
13    State food stamp agency concerning any information
14    required to be furnished by Section 303(d); and
15        6. any wage information upon request and on a
16    reimbursable basis to any State or local child support
17    enforcement agency required by Section 303(e); and
18        7. any information required under the income
19    eligibility and verification system as required by Section
20    303(f); and
21        8. information that might be useful in locating an
22    absent parent or that parent's employer, establishing
23    paternity or establishing, modifying, or enforcing child
24    support orders for the purpose of a child support
25    enforcement program under Title IV of the Social Security
26    Act upon the request of and on a reimbursable basis to the

 

 

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1    public agency administering the Federal Parent Locator
2    Service as required by Section 303(h); and
3        9. information, upon request, to representatives of
4    any federal, State or local governmental public housing
5    agency with respect to individuals who have signed the
6    appropriate consent form approved by the Secretary of
7    Housing and Urban Development and who are applying for or
8    participating in any housing assistance program
9    administered by the United States Department of Housing and
10    Urban Development as required by Section 303(i).
11    I. The Director, upon the request of a public agency of
12Illinois, of the federal government or of any other state
13charged with the investigation or enforcement of Section 10-5
14of the Criminal Code of 1961 (or a similar federal law or
15similar law of another State), may furnish the public agency
16information regarding the individual specified in the request
17as to:
18        1. the current or most recent home address of the
19    individual, and
20        2. the names and addresses of the individual's
21    employers.
22    J. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to interfere
23with the disclosure of certain records as provided for in
24Section 1706 or with the right to make available to the
25Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the
26Treasury, or the Department of Revenue of the State of

 

 

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1Illinois, information obtained under this Act.
2    K. The Department shall make available to the Illinois
3Student Assistance Commission, upon request, information in
4the possession of the Department that may be necessary or
5useful to the Commission in the collection of defaulted or
6delinquent student loans which the Commission administers.
7    L. The Department shall make available to the State
8Employees' Retirement System, the State Universities
9Retirement System, and the Teachers' Retirement System of the
10State of Illinois, and the Department of Central Management
11Services, Risk Management Division, upon request, information
12in the possession of the Department that may be necessary or
13useful to the System or the Risk Management Division for the
14purpose of determining whether any recipient of a disability
15benefit from the System or a workers' compensation benefit from
16the Risk Management Division is gainfully employed.
17    M. This Section shall be applicable to the information
18obtained in the administration of the State employment service,
19except that the Director may publish or release general labor
20market information and may furnish information that he may deem
21proper to an individual, public officer or public agency of
22this or any other State or the federal government (in addition
23to those public officers or public agencies specified in this
24Section) as he prescribes by Rule.
25    N. The Director may require such safeguards as he deems
26proper to insure that information disclosed pursuant to this

 

 

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1Section is used only for the purposes set forth in this
2Section.
3    O. (Blank).
4    P. Within 30 days after the effective date of this
5amendatory Act of 1993 and annually thereafter, the Department
6shall provide to the Department of Financial Institutions a
7list of individuals or entities that, for the most recently
8completed calendar year, report to the Department as paying
9wages to workers. The lists shall be deemed confidential and
10may not be disclosed to any other person.
11    Q. The Director shall make available to an elected federal
12official the name and address of an individual or entity that
13is located within the jurisdiction from which the official was
14elected and that, for the most recently completed calendar
15year, has reported to the Department as paying wages to
16workers, where the information will be used in connection with
17the official duties of the official and the official requests
18the information in writing, specifying the purposes for which
19it will be used. For purposes of this subsection, the use of
20information in connection with the official duties of an
21official does not include use of the information in connection
22with the solicitation of contributions or expenditures, in
23money or in kind, to or on behalf of a candidate for public or
24political office or a political party or with respect to a
25public question, as defined in Section 1-3 of the Election
26Code, or in connection with any commercial solicitation. Any

 

 

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1elected federal official who, in submitting a request for
2information covered by this subsection, knowingly makes a false
3statement or fails to disclose a material fact, with the intent
4to obtain the information for a purpose not authorized by this
5subsection, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
6    R. The Director may provide to any State or local child
7support agency, upon request and on a reimbursable basis,
8information that might be useful in locating an absent parent
9or that parent's employer, establishing paternity, or
10establishing, modifying, or enforcing child support orders.
11    S. The Department shall make available to a State's
12Attorney of this State or a State's Attorney's investigator,
13upon request, the current address or, if the current address is
14unavailable, current employer information, if available, of a
15victim of a felony or a witness to a felony or a person against
16whom an arrest warrant is outstanding.
17    T. The Director shall make available to the Department of
18State Police, a county sheriff's office, or a municipal police
19department, upon request, any information concerning the
20current address and place of employment or former places of
21employment of a person who is required to register as a sex
22offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act that may be
23useful in enforcing the registration provisions of that Act.
24(Source: P.A. 96-420, eff. 8-13-09.)
 
25    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26becoming law.