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Rep. Natalie A. Manley
Filed: 3/22/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 282
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 282 on page 3, |
| 3 | | lines 23 to 24, by replacing "State's Attorney's" with "county |
| 4 | | officer's"; and
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| 5 | | on page 4, line 2, by replacing "State's Attorney's" with |
| 6 | | "county or State officer's"; and
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| 7 | | on page 9, by replacing lines 4 through 11 with the following:
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| 8 | | "(f) In a county with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, and |
| 9 | | only upon receipt of a written request by the superintendent |
| 10 | | of the county Veterans Assistance Commission for the county in |
| 11 | | which the State's Attorney is located, the State's Attorney |
| 12 | | shall have the discretionary authority to render an opinion, |
| 13 | | without fee or reward, upon any question of law relating to a |
| 14 | | matter in which the county Veterans Assistance Commission may |
| 15 | | be concerned. The State's Attorney shall have the discretion |
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| 1 | | to grant or decline such a request."; and
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| 2 | | on page 14, immediately below line 24, by inserting the |
| 3 | | following:
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| 4 | | "Section 10. The Military Veterans Assistance Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (330 ILCS 45/10) (from Ch. 23, par. 3090)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10.
The executive powers of the commission shall be |
| 8 | | vested in a
superintendent elected by the commission from |
| 9 | | among those who served in
the armed forces of the United |
| 10 | | States. The superintendent,
designated Superintendent of |
| 11 | | Veterans Assistance of the county, shall,
under the direction |
| 12 | | of the commission, have charge of and maintain an
office in the |
| 13 | | county building or other central location, to be used solely
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| 14 | | by the commission for carrying on its assistance work. The |
| 15 | | county shall
provide the office and furnish all necessary |
| 16 | | supplies, including telephone,
printing, stationery and |
| 17 | | postage therefor.
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| 18 | | The county board shall, in any county where a Veterans |
| 19 | | Assistance
Commission is organized, in addition to sums |
| 20 | | appropriated for assistance and
emergency assistance purposes |
| 21 | | under this Act, appropriate such additional
sums, upon |
| 22 | | recommendation of the Veterans Assistance Commission and as
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| 1 | | approved by the county board, to properly compensate the |
| 2 | | officers and
employees required to administer such assistance. |
| 3 | | Such county board
approval shall be based upon recognized and |
| 4 | | established salary guidelines
developed by the county and used |
| 5 | | by the county to compensate county
employees. If the county |
| 6 | | does not have established employee salary
guidelines, the |
| 7 | | county board shall provide funds to the commission to
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| 8 | | compensate the superintendent and his employees in a just |
| 9 | | manner. The
county board shall also provide funds to the |
| 10 | | commission to reimburse the
superintendent, officers, |
| 11 | | delegates and employees for certain expenses
which are |
| 12 | | approved by the commission. The superintendent and other
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| 13 | | employees shall be employees of the Veterans Assistance |
| 14 | | Commission, and no
provision in this Section or elsewhere in |
| 15 | | this Act shall be construed to
mean that they are employees of |
| 16 | | the county.
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| 17 | | Superintendents, subject to rules formulated by the |
| 18 | | commission, shall select,
as far as possible, secretaries and |
| 19 | | other employees from among honorably
discharged military |
| 20 | | veterans as defined in Section 2, or their surviving
spouses.
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| 21 | | In a county with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the |
| 22 | | superintendent may, in conformance with subsection (f) of |
| 23 | | Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code, request legal assistance |
| 24 | | from the State's Attorney serving the county in which the |
| 25 | | Veterans Assistance Commission is located. |
| 26 | | Superintendents of all counties subject to this Act, when |
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| 1 | | required by the
commission, shall give bond in the sum of |
| 2 | | $2,000 for the faithful performance
of their duties.
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| 3 | | All persons elected or selected to fill positions provided |
| 4 | | for in this
Section shall be exempt from the operation and |
| 5 | | provisions of any civil service
act or laws of this State, and |
| 6 | | the secretary of the commission shall be
appointed by the |
| 7 | | superintendent. However, if "The Illinois Public Aid Code",
as |
| 8 | | amended, becomes applicable in any county, the Department of
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| 9 | | Human Services may exercise the powers therein designated in |
| 10 | | relation to
employees
engaged in the administration of |
| 11 | | assistance under this Act.
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| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".
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