Full Text of HB4470 95th General Assembly
HB4470ham004 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Fred Crespo
Filed: 4/10/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4470
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4470, AS AMENDED, by | 3 |
| replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 |
| following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic | 6 |
| Opportunity Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | 7 |
| amended by changing Section 605-800 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 605/605-800) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)
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| Sec. 605-800. Training grants for skills in critical | 10 |
| demand.
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| (a) Grants to provide training in fields affected by | 12 |
| critical
demands for certain skills may be made as provided in | 13 |
| this Section.
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| (b) The Director may make grants to eligible employers or | 15 |
| to other eligible
entities on behalf of employers as authorized | 16 |
| in subsection (c) to provide
training for employees in fields |
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| for which there are critical demands for
certain skills. No | 2 |
| participating employee may be an unauthorized alien, as defined | 3 |
| in 8 U.S.C. 1324a.
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| (c) The Director may accept applications for training grant | 5 |
| funds and grant
requests from: (i) entities sponsoring | 6 |
| multi-company eligible employee
training projects as defined | 7 |
| in subsection (d), including business
associations, strategic | 8 |
| business partnerships, institutions of secondary or
higher | 9 |
| education, large manufacturers for supplier network companies, | 10 |
| federal
Job Training Partnership Act administrative entities | 11 |
| or grant recipients, and
labor organizations when those | 12 |
| projects will address common training needs
identified by | 13 |
| participating companies; and (ii) individual employers that | 14 |
| are
undertaking eligible employee training projects as defined | 15 |
| in subsection
(d), including intermediaries and training | 16 |
| agents.
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| (c-5) Entities sponsoring multi-company training grant | 18 |
| programs shall obtain from a duly authorized officer of each | 19 |
| participating company a certification that all participating | 20 |
| employees are employed at Illinois facilities and, for each | 21 |
| participating employee, stating the employee's name and either | 22 |
| (i) stating the employee's social security number or (ii) | 23 |
| certifying that the company has verified that the employee is | 24 |
| employed at an Illinois facility. Each application from an | 25 |
| individual employer shall be accompanied with a certification | 26 |
| signed and dated by a duly authorized officer of the applicant |
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| certifying that all participating employees are employed at | 2 |
| Illinois facilities and, for each participating employee, | 3 |
| stating the employee's name and either (i) stating the | 4 |
| employee's social security number or (ii) certifying that the | 5 |
| applicant has verified that the employee is employed at an | 6 |
| Illinois facility. The Department may audit the accuracy of | 7 |
| applications. | 8 |
| Notwithstanding any other rulemaking authority that may | 9 |
| exist, neither the Governor nor any agency or agency head under | 10 |
| the jurisdiction of the Governor has any authority to make or | 11 |
| promulgate rules to implement or enforce the provisions of this | 12 |
| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. If, however, the | 13 |
| Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or | 14 |
| enforce the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 95th | 15 |
| General Assembly, the Governor may suggest rules to the General | 16 |
| Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of the House and | 17 |
| Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that the General | 18 |
| Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, enact those | 19 |
| suggested rules into law, or take any other appropriate action | 20 |
| in the General Assembly's discretion. Nothing contained in this | 21 |
| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be | 22 |
| interpreted to grant rulemaking authority under any other | 23 |
| Illinois statute where such authority is not otherwise | 24 |
| explicitly given. For the purposes of this amendatory Act of | 25 |
| the 95th General Assembly, "rules" is given the meaning | 26 |
| contained in Section 1-70 of the Illinois Administrative |
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| Procedure Act, and "agency" and "agency head" are given the | 2 |
| meanings contained in Sections 1-20 and 1-25 of the Illinois | 3 |
| Administrative Procedure Act to the extent that such | 4 |
| definitions apply to agencies or agency heads under the | 5 |
| jurisdiction of the Governor. | 6 |
| (d) The Director may make grants to eligible applicants as
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| defined in subsection (c) for employee training projects that
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| include, but need not be limited to, one or more of the | 9 |
| following:
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| (1) Training programs in response to new or changing
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| technology being introduced in the workplace.
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| (2) Job-linked training that offers special skills for | 13 |
| career
advancement or that is preparatory for, and leads | 14 |
| directly to, jobs with
definite career potential and | 15 |
| long-term job security.
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| (3) Training necessary to implement total quality | 17 |
| management
or improvement or both management and | 18 |
| improvement systems within the
workplace.
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| (4) Training related to new machinery or equipment.
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| (5) Training of employees of companies that are | 21 |
| expanding into
new markets or expanding exports from | 22 |
| Illinois.
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| (6) Basic, remedial, or both basic and remedial | 24 |
| training of employees
as a prerequisite for other | 25 |
| vocational or technical skills training or as a
condition | 26 |
| for sustained employment.
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| (7) Self-employment training of the unemployed and | 2 |
| underemployed with
comprehensive, competency-based | 3 |
| instructional programs and services,
entrepreneurial | 4 |
| education and training initiatives for youth and adult
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| learners in cooperation with the Illinois Institute for | 6 |
| Entrepreneurial
Education, training and education, | 7 |
| conferences, workshops, and best practice
information for | 8 |
| local program operators of entrepreneurial education and
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| self-employment training programs.
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| (8) Other training activities or projects, or both | 11 |
| training activities and
projects, related to the support, | 12 |
| development, or evaluation of job training
programs, | 13 |
| activities, and delivery systems, including training needs | 14 |
| assessment
and design.
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| (e) Grants shall be made on the terms and conditions that | 16 |
| the Department
shall determine. No grant made under subsection | 17 |
| (d), however, shall exceed 50%
of the direct costs of all | 18 |
| approved training programs provided by the employer
or the | 19 |
| employer's training agent or other entity as defined in | 20 |
| subsection
(c). Under this Section, allowable costs include, | 21 |
| but are not limited to:
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| (1) Administrative costs of tracking, documenting, | 23 |
| reporting, and
processing training funds or project costs.
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| (2) Curriculum development.
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| (3) Wages and fringe benefits of employees.
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| (4) Training materials, including scrap product costs.
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| (5) Trainee travel expenses.
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| (6) Instructor costs, including wages, fringe | 3 |
| benefits,
tuition, and travel expenses.
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| (7) Rent, purchase, or lease of training equipment.
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| (8) Other usual and customary training costs.
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| (f) The Director may conduct will ensure that a minimum of | 7 |
| one on-site grant
monitoring visits to visit is conducted by | 8 |
| the Department either during the course of
the grant period or | 9 |
| within 6 months following the end of the grant period.
The | 10 |
| Department shall verify that the grantee's financial | 11 |
| management system is
structured to provide for accurate, | 12 |
| current, and complete disclosure of the
financial results of | 13 |
| the grant program in accordance with all provisions,
terms, and | 14 |
| conditions contained in the grant contract.
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| (g) The Director may establish and collect a schedule of
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| charges from subgrantee entities and other system users under | 17 |
| federal
job-training programs for participating in and | 18 |
| utilizing the Department's
automated job-training program | 19 |
| information systems if the systems and the
necessary | 20 |
| participation and utilization are requirements of the federal
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| job-training programs. All monies collected pursuant to this | 22 |
| subsection
shall be deposited into the Title III Social | 23 |
| Security and Employment Fund,
except that any moneys that may | 24 |
| be necessary to pay liabilities outstanding
as of June 30, 2000 | 25 |
| shall be deposited into the Federal Job-Training
Information | 26 |
| Systems Revolving Fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-454, eff. 8-16-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; | 2 |
| 91-476, eff.
8-11-99; 91-704, eff. 7-1-00.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 |
| becoming law.".
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