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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3044

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3044  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.  The  Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
 5    changing Section 1-11 as follows:

 6        (305 ILCS 5/1-11)
 7        Sec. 1-11.  Citizenship.  To  the  extent  not  otherwise
 8    provided in this Code or federal law, all clients who receive
 9    cash or medical assistance under Article III, IV, V, or VI of
10    this   Code   must   meet  the  citizenship  requirements  as
11    established in this Section. To be eligible for assistance an
12    individual, who is  otherwise  eligible,  must  be  either  a
13    United  States  citizen  or  included in one of the following
14    categories of non-citizens:
15             (1)  United States veterans honorably discharged and
16        persons on active  military  duty,  and  the  spouse  and
17        unmarried dependent children of these persons;
18             (2)  Refugees  under  Section 207 of the Immigration
19        and Nationality Act;
20             (3)  Asylees under Section 208  of  the  Immigration
21        and Nationality Act;
22             (4)  Persons  for whom deportation has been withheld
 
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 1        under Section 243(h) of the Immigration  and  Nationality
 2        Act;
 3             (5)  Persons granted conditional entry under Section
 4        203(a)(7)  of  the  Immigration and Nationality Act as in
 5        effect prior to April 1, 1980;
 6             (6)  Persons   lawfully   admitted   for   permanent
 7        residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and
 8             (7)  Parolees, for at least one year, under  Section
 9        212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;.
10             (8)  Nationals of Cuba or Haiti admitted on or after
11        April 21, 1980;
12             (9)  Amerasians from Vietnam, and their close family
13        members,  admitted  through the Orderly Departure Program
14        beginning on March 20, 1988;
15             (10)  Persons identified by the  federal  Office  of
16        Refugee Resettlement (ORR) as victims of trafficking;
17             (11)  Persons  legally residing in the United States
18        who were members of a Hmong  or  Highland  Laotian  tribe
19        when  the  tribe helped United States personnel by taking
20        part in a military or rescue operation during the Vietnam
21        era (between August 5, 1965 and May 7, 1975);  this  also
22        includes  the person's spouse, a widow or widower who has
23        not remarried, and unmarried dependent children;
24             (12)  American Indians born in Canada under  Section
25        289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and members of
26        an  Indian  tribe  as defined in Section 4e of the Indian
27        Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act; and
28             (13)  Persons who are a spouse, widow, or child of a
29        U.S. citizen or a spouse or child of  a  legal  permanent
30        resident  (LPR)  who  have  been battered or subjected to
31        extreme cruelty by the U.S. citizen or LPR or a member of
32        that relative's family who lived with them, who no longer
33        live with the abuser or plan to  live  separately  within
34        one  month  of  receipt  of assistance and whose need for
 
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 1        assistance is due, at least in part, to the abuse.
 2        Those persons who are in  the  categories  set  forth  in
 3    subdivisions  6  and  7 of this Section, who enter the United
 4    States on or after August 22, 1996, shall not be eligible for
 5    5 years beginning on the date the person entered  the  United
 6    States.
 7        The Illinois Department may, by rule, cover prenatal care
 8    or  emergency  medical  care  for  non-citizens  who  are not
 9    otherwise eligible under  this  Section.  Local  governmental
10    units  which  do not receive State funds may impose their own
11    citizenship requirements and are authorized  to  provide  any
12    benefits  and  impose  any  citizenship  requirements  as are
13    allowed  under   the   Personal   Responsibility   and   Work
14    Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).
15    (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)

16        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
17    becoming law.".