SB1172 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1172

Introduced 2/8/2007, by Sen. James A. DeLeo

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 1015/1

from Ch. 48, par. 173

Amends the Public Employment Office Act. Deletes language authorizing the Department of Employment Security to establish and maintain a specified number of central and branch public employment offices in municipalities within certain population ranges and providing that those offices shall be designated and known as Illinois Public Employment Offices.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Employment Office Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1015/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 173)

Sec. 1. Public employment offices; establishment. The Department of Employment Security is authorized to establish and maintain public employment offices, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment and applications of persons seeking to employ labor, as follows: One in each city, village or incorporated town of not less than twenty-five thousand population; one in two or more contiguous cities, villages or incorporated towns having an aggregate or combined population of not less than twenty-five thousand; and in each city containing a population of one million or over, one central office with as many departments as would be practical to handle the various classes of labor, and such branch offices not to exceed five at any one time, the location of branch offices to be approved by the Governor. Those offices shall be designated and known as Illinois Public Employment Offices.

(Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98.)