Full Text of SB1893 98th General Assembly
SB1893sam001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Andy Manar Filed: 3/15/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1893
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1893 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 4-23 as follows: | 6 | | (305 ILCS 5/4-23)
| 7 | | Sec. 4-23. Civil rights impact statement. | 8 | | (a) The Department of Human Services
must
submit to the | 9 | | Governor and the General Assembly
on January 1 of each | 10 | | even-numbered year a written report
that details the disparate | 11 | | impact of various
provisions of the TANF program on people of | 12 | | different racial or ethnic
groups
who
identify themselves in an | 13 | | application for benefits as any of the following: | 14 | | (1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having | 15 | | origins in any of the original peoples of North and South | 16 | | America, including Central America, and who maintains |
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| 1 | | tribal affiliation or community attachment). | 2 | | (2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the | 3 | | original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the | 4 | | Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to, | 5 | | Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, | 6 | | the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam). | 7 | | (3) Black or African American (a person having origins | 8 | | in any of the black racial groups of Africa). Terms such as | 9 | | "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black or | 10 | | African American". | 11 | | (4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican, | 12 | | Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish | 13 | | culture or origin, regardless of race). | 14 | | (5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a person | 15 | | having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, | 16 | | Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands). | 17 | | (6) White (a person having origins in any of the | 18 | | original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North | 19 | | Africa).
| 20 | | (b) The report must
at least compare the
number of
persons | 21 | | in each group:
| 22 | | (1) who are receiving TANF assistance;
| 23 | | (2) whose 60-month lifetime limit on receiving | 24 | | assistance has expired;
| 25 | | (3) who have left TANF due to earned income;
| 26 | | (4) who have left TANF due to non-compliance with |
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| 1 | | program rules;
| 2 | | (5) whose TANF grants have been reduced by sanctions | 3 | | for non-compliance
with program rules;
| 4 | | (6) who have returned to TANF 6 months after leaving | 5 | | due to earned
income;
| 6 | | (7) who have returned to TANF 12 months after leaving | 7 | | due to earned
income;
| 8 | | (8) who have one or more children excluded from | 9 | | receiving TANF
cash assistance due to the child exclusion | 10 | | rule;
| 11 | | (9) who have been granted an exemption from work | 12 | | requirements; and
| 13 | | (10) who are participating in post-secondary education
| 14 | | activities ; and .
| 15 | | (11) who have lost or have had TANF benefits reduced | 16 | | due to non-compliance with education requirements. | 17 | | (Source: P.A. 97-396, eff. 1-1-12.)
| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 | | becoming law.".
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