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1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is |
5 | | amended by adding Section 65.105 as follows: |
6 | | (110 ILCS 947/65.105 new) |
7 | | Sec. 65.105. Adult vocational community college |
8 | | scholarship. |
9 | | (a) The Commission shall, subject to appropriation, |
10 | | establish and administer an adult vocational community college |
11 | | scholarship program. |
12 | | (b) Beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, the |
13 | | Commission shall, each year, receive and consider applications |
14 | | for scholarships under this Section. An applicant is eligible |
15 | | for a scholarship under this Section if the Commission finds |
16 | | that the applicant meets all of the following qualifications: |
17 | | (1) He or she is over the age of 30. |
18 | | (2) He or she has been unemployed and is actively |
19 | | searching for employment, including being enrolled on the |
20 | | Department of Employment Security's job-search website for |
21 | | at least 6 months prior to the date the application is |
22 | | submitted by the applicant. |
23 | | (3) He or she is enrolled or accepted for enrollment at |
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1 | | his or her local community college organized under the |
2 | | Public Community College Act. |
3 | | (4) He or she can identify the specific training |
4 | | certificate, credential, or associate degree that he or she |
5 | | is seeking to obtain; the career that the certificate, |
6 | | credential, or degree will help create; and how long it |
7 | | will take the applicant to reach this goal. |
8 | | Applicants may re-apply for the scholarship under this |
9 | | Section if they can demonstrate continual progress, in terms of |
10 | | grades and attendance, toward the desired certificate, |
11 | | credential, or degree. |
12 | | (c) The scholarship shall be sufficient to cover the cost |
13 | | of tuition and fees to attend the community college, but in no |
14 | | event shall the scholarship exceed $2,000 per scholarship |
15 | | recipient per academic year. |
16 | | The total amount of a scholarship awarded by the Commission |
17 | | under this Section to an individual in any given fiscal year, |
18 | | when added to other financial assistance awarded to that |
19 | | individual for that year, shall not exceed the cost of |
20 | | attendance at the community college at which the student is |
21 | | enrolled. |
22 | | (d) All applications for scholarships to be awarded under |
23 | | this Section shall be made to the Commission in a form as set |
24 | | forth by the Commission. The form of application and the |
25 | | information required to be set forth in the application shall |
26 | | be determined by the Commission, and the Commission shall |
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1 | | require eligible applicants to submit with their applications |
2 | | such supporting documents as the Commission deems necessary. |
3 | | (e) Subject to a separate appropriation made for such |
4 | | purposes, payment of any scholarships awarded under this |
5 | | Section shall be determined by the Commission. All scholarship |
6 | | funds distributed in accordance with this Section shall be paid |
7 | | to the community college on behalf of the recipients. |
8 | | Scholarship funds are applicable toward 2 semesters of |
9 | | enrollment within an academic year. Up to 2% of the |
10 | | appropriation for this scholarship program may be used by the |
11 | | Commission for the costs of administering the scholarship |
12 | | program. If funds appropriated for the program are insufficient |
13 | | to provide grants to each eligible applicant, the Commission |
14 | | may prioritize the distribution of grants based on factors that |
15 | | include an applicant's financial need, duration of |
16 | | unemployment, prior level of educational attainment, or date of |
17 | | application. |
18 | | (f) The Commission shall adopt all necessary and proper |
19 | | rules not inconsistent with this Section for its effective |
20 | | implementation.
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21 | | Section 10. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by |
22 | | changing Section 1900 as follows:
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23 | | (820 ILCS 405/1900) (from Ch. 48, par. 640)
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24 | | Sec. 1900. Disclosure of information.
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1 | | A. Except as provided in this Section, information obtained |
2 | | from any
individual or employing unit during the administration |
3 | | of this Act shall:
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4 | | 1. be confidential,
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5 | | 2. not be published or open to public inspection,
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6 | | 3. not be used in any court in any pending action or |
7 | | proceeding,
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8 | | 4. not be admissible in evidence in any action or |
9 | | proceeding other than
one arising out of this Act.
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10 | | B. No finding, determination, decision, ruling or order |
11 | | (including
any finding of fact, statement or conclusion made |
12 | | therein) issued pursuant
to this Act shall be admissible or |
13 | | used in evidence in any action other than
one arising out of |
14 | | this Act, nor shall it be binding or conclusive except
as |
15 | | provided in this Act, nor shall it constitute res judicata, |
16 | | regardless
of whether the actions were between the same or |
17 | | related parties or involved
the same facts.
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18 | | C. Any officer or employee of this State, any officer or |
19 | | employee of any
entity authorized to obtain information |
20 | | pursuant to this Section, and any
agent of this State or of |
21 | | such entity
who, except with authority of
the Director under |
22 | | this Section, shall disclose information shall be guilty
of a |
23 | | Class B misdemeanor and shall be disqualified from holding any
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24 | | appointment or employment by the State.
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25 | | D. An individual or his duly authorized agent may be |
26 | | supplied with
information from records only to the extent |
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1 | | necessary for the proper
presentation of his claim for benefits |
2 | | or with his existing or prospective
rights to benefits. |
3 | | Discretion to disclose this information belongs
solely to the |
4 | | Director and is not subject to a release or waiver by the
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5 | | individual.
Notwithstanding any other provision to the |
6 | | contrary, an individual or his or
her duly authorized agent may |
7 | | be supplied with a statement of the amount of
benefits paid to |
8 | | the individual during the 18 months preceding the date of his
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9 | | or her request.
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10 | | E. An employing unit may be furnished with information, |
11 | | only if deemed by
the Director as necessary to enable it to |
12 | | fully discharge its obligations or
safeguard its rights under |
13 | | the Act. Discretion to disclose this information
belongs solely |
14 | | to the Director and is not subject to a release or waiver by |
15 | | the
employing unit.
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16 | | F. The Director may furnish any information that he may |
17 | | deem proper to
any public officer or public agency of this or |
18 | | any other State or of the
federal government dealing with:
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19 | | 1. the administration of relief,
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20 | | 2. public assistance,
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21 | | 3. unemployment compensation,
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22 | | 4. a system of public employment offices,
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23 | | 5. wages and hours of employment, or
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24 | | 6. a public works program.
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25 | | The Director may make available to the Illinois Workers' |
26 | | Compensation Commission
information regarding employers for |
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1 | | the purpose of verifying the insurance
coverage required under |
2 | | the Workers' Compensation Act and Workers'
Occupational |
3 | | Diseases Act.
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4 | | G. The Director may disclose information submitted by the |
5 | | State or any
of its political subdivisions, municipal |
6 | | corporations, instrumentalities,
or school or community |
7 | | college districts, except for information which
specifically |
8 | | identifies an individual claimant.
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9 | | H. The Director shall disclose only that information |
10 | | required to be
disclosed under Section 303 of the Social |
11 | | Security Act, as amended, including:
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12 | | 1. any information required to be given the United |
13 | | States Department of
Labor under Section 303(a)(6); and
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14 | | 2. the making available upon request to any agency of |
15 | | the United States
charged with the administration of public |
16 | | works or assistance through
public employment, the name, |
17 | | address, ordinary occupation and employment
status of each |
18 | | recipient of unemployment compensation, and a statement of
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19 | | such recipient's right to further compensation under such |
20 | | law as required
by Section 303(a)(7); and
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21 | | 3. records to make available to the Railroad Retirement |
22 | | Board as
required by Section 303(c)(1); and
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23 | | 4. information that will assure reasonable cooperation |
24 | | with every agency
of the United States charged with the |
25 | | administration of any unemployment
compensation law as |
26 | | required by Section 303(c)(2); and
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1 | | 5. information upon request and on a reimbursable basis |
2 | | to the United
States Department of Agriculture and to any |
3 | | State food stamp agency
concerning any information |
4 | | required to be furnished by Section 303(d); and
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5 | | 6. any wage information upon request and on a |
6 | | reimbursable basis
to any State or local child support |
7 | | enforcement agency required by
Section 303(e); and
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8 | | 7. any information required under the income |
9 | | eligibility and
verification system as required by Section |
10 | | 303(f); and
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11 | | 8. information that might be useful in locating an |
12 | | absent parent or that
parent's employer, establishing |
13 | | paternity or establishing, modifying, or
enforcing child |
14 | | support orders
for the purpose of a child support |
15 | | enforcement program
under Title IV of the Social Security |
16 | | Act upon the request of
and on a reimbursable basis to
the |
17 | | public
agency administering the Federal Parent Locator |
18 | | Service as required by
Section 303(h); and
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19 | | 9. information, upon request, to representatives of |
20 | | any federal, State
or local governmental public housing |
21 | | agency with respect to individuals who
have signed the |
22 | | appropriate consent form approved by the Secretary of |
23 | | Housing
and Urban Development and who are applying for or |
24 | | participating in any housing
assistance program |
25 | | administered by the United States Department of Housing and
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26 | | Urban Development as required by Section 303(i).
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1 | | I. The Director, upon the request of a public agency of |
2 | | Illinois, of the
federal government or of any other state |
3 | | charged with the investigation or
enforcement of Section 10-5 |
4 | | of the Criminal Code of 2012 (or a similar
federal law or |
5 | | similar law of another State), may furnish the public agency
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6 | | information regarding the individual specified in the request |
7 | | as to:
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8 | | 1. the current or most recent home address of the |
9 | | individual, and
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10 | | 2. the names and addresses of the individual's |
11 | | employers.
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12 | | J. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to interfere |
13 | | with the
disclosure of certain records as provided for in |
14 | | Section 1706 or with the
right to make available to the |
15 | | Internal Revenue Service of the United
States Department of the |
16 | | Treasury, or the Department of Revenue of the
State of |
17 | | Illinois, information obtained under this Act.
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18 | | K. The Department shall make available to the Illinois |
19 | | Student Assistance
Commission, upon request, information in |
20 | | the possession of the Department that
may be necessary or |
21 | | useful to the
Commission in the collection of defaulted or |
22 | | delinquent student loans which
the Commission administers.
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23 | | L. The Department shall make available to the State |
24 | | Employees'
Retirement System, the State Universities |
25 | | Retirement System, the
Teachers' Retirement System of the State |
26 | | of Illinois, and the Department of Central Management Services, |
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1 | | Risk Management Division, upon request,
information in the |
2 | | possession of the Department that may be necessary or useful
to |
3 | | the System or the Risk Management Division for the purpose of |
4 | | determining whether any recipient of a
disability benefit from |
5 | | the System or a workers' compensation benefit from the Risk |
6 | | Management Division is gainfully employed.
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7 | | M. This Section shall be applicable to the information |
8 | | obtained in the
administration of the State employment service, |
9 | | except that the Director
may publish or release general labor |
10 | | market information and may furnish
information that he may deem |
11 | | proper to an individual, public officer or
public agency of |
12 | | this or any other State or the federal government (in
addition |
13 | | to those public officers or public agencies specified in this
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14 | | Section) as he prescribes by Rule.
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15 | | N. The Director may require such safeguards as he deems |
16 | | proper to insure
that information disclosed pursuant to this |
17 | | Section is used only for the
purposes set forth in this |
18 | | Section.
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19 | | O. Nothing in this Section prohibits communication with an |
20 | | individual or entity through unencrypted e-mail or other |
21 | | unencrypted electronic means as long as the communication does |
22 | | not contain the individual's or entity's name in combination |
23 | | with any one or more of the individual's or entity's social |
24 | | security number; driver's license or State identification |
25 | | number; credit or debit card number; or any required security |
26 | | code, access code, or password that would permit access to |
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1 | | further information pertaining to the individual or entity.
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2 | | P. (Blank).
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3 | | Q. The Director shall make available to an elected federal
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4 | | official the name and address of an individual or entity that |
5 | | is located within
the jurisdiction from which the official was |
6 | | elected and that, for the most
recently completed calendar |
7 | | year, has reported to the Department as paying
wages to |
8 | | workers, where the information will be used in connection with |
9 | | the
official duties of the official and the official requests |
10 | | the information in
writing, specifying the purposes for which |
11 | | it will be used.
For purposes of this subsection, the use of |
12 | | information in connection with the
official duties of an |
13 | | official does not include use of the information in
connection |
14 | | with the solicitation of contributions or expenditures, in |
15 | | money or
in kind, to or on behalf of a candidate for public or |
16 | | political office or a
political party or with respect to a |
17 | | public question, as defined in Section 1-3
of the Election |
18 | | Code, or in connection with any commercial solicitation. Any
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19 | | elected federal official who, in submitting a request for |
20 | | information
covered by this subsection, knowingly makes a false |
21 | | statement or fails to
disclose a material fact, with the intent |
22 | | to obtain the information for a
purpose not authorized by this |
23 | | subsection, shall be guilty of a Class B
misdemeanor.
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24 | | R. The Director may provide to any State or local child |
25 | | support
agency, upon request and on a reimbursable basis, |
26 | | information that might be
useful in locating an absent parent |
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1 | | or that parent's employer, establishing
paternity, or |
2 | | establishing, modifying, or enforcing child support orders.
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3 | | S. The Department shall make available to a State's |
4 | | Attorney of this
State or a State's Attorney's investigator,
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5 | | upon request, the current address or, if the current address is
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6 | | unavailable, current employer information, if available, of a |
7 | | victim of
a felony or a
witness to a felony or a person against |
8 | | whom an arrest warrant is
outstanding.
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9 | | T. The Director shall make available to the Department of |
10 | | State Police, a county sheriff's office, or a municipal police |
11 | | department, upon request, any information concerning the |
12 | | current address and place of employment or former places of |
13 | | employment of a person who is required to register as a sex |
14 | | offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act that may be |
15 | | useful in enforcing the registration provisions of that Act. |
16 | | U. The Director shall make information available to the |
17 | | Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Department |
18 | | of Human Services for the purpose of determining eligibility |
19 | | for public benefit programs authorized under the Illinois |
20 | | Public Aid Code and related statutes administered by those |
21 | | departments, for verifying sources and amounts of income, and |
22 | | for other purposes directly connected with the administration |
23 | | of those programs. |
24 | | V. The Director shall make information available to the |
25 | | State Board of Elections as may be required by an agreement the |
26 | | State Board of Elections has entered into with a multi-state |
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1 | | voter registration list maintenance system. |
2 | | W. The Director shall make information available to the |
3 | | State Treasurer's office and the Department of Revenue for the |
4 | | purpose of facilitating compliance with the Illinois Secure |
5 | | Choice Savings Program Act, including employer contact |
6 | | information for employers with 25 or more employees and any |
7 | | other information the Director deems appropriate that is |
8 | | directly related to the administration of this program. |
9 | | X. The Director shall make information available, upon |
10 | | request, to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for the |
11 | | purpose of determining eligibility for the adult vocational |
12 | | community college scholarship program under Section 65.105 of |
13 | | the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. |
14 | | (Source: P.A. 99-571, eff. 7-15-16; 99-933, eff. 1-27-17; |
15 | | 100-484, eff. 9-8-17.)
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