093_SB1748

 
                                     LRB093 03301 DRJ 03318 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to public aid.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4-1.12 as follows:

 6        (305 ILCS 5/4-1.12)
 7        Sec. 4-1.12.  Five year limitation.
 8        (a)  No  assistance  unit  shall  be  eligible for a cash
 9    grant under this Article if it  includes  an  adult  who  has
10    received  cash  assistance as an adult for 60 months, whether
11    or  not  consecutive,  after  the  effective  date  of   this
12    amendatory  Act  of 1997.  The Illinois Department may exempt
13    individual assistance units from the 60-month  limitation  or
14    determine  circumstances  under which a month or months would
15    not count towards the 60-month  limitation  even  though  the
16    assistance  unit  did  receive  cash  assistance  under  this
17    Article.
18        (b)  In  addition  to months that the Department of Human
19    Services determines by rule not to count toward the  60-month
20    limitation  under  subsection  (a),  the Department shall not
21    count months in which the adult  receiving  assistance  under
22    this  Article  is the primary caregiver for a disabled family
23    member, as defined by the Department in rules, if the demands
24    of  that   caregiving   are   inconsistent   with   sustained
25    employment.   In  addition, families that meet the definition
26    in  the  preceding  sentence  that   have   exhausted   their
27    eligibility for cash assistance under the 60-month limitation
28    shall  be  eligible for cash assistance without regard to the
29    60-month limitation.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)