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90_HB1785

      New Act
      20 ILCS 415/8b.7-1 new
      30 ILCS 505/9.01-1 new
          Creates the Welfare to Work Act  which  places  qualified
      welfare  recipients  in  State jobs or jobs contracted out by
      the State.  Provides that State agencies  shall  provide  the
      Department of Public Aid, or the Department of Human Services
      as  its  successor  agency, a job announcement simultaneously
      with posting its positions or putting a position out for hire
      by contract, except for those positions subject to recall  by
      laid-off   employees,   or   those  otherwise  exempt.    The
      Department   shall   review   positions,   make   eligibility
      determinations, recruit and screen potential  employees,  and
      refer  aid  recipients  to  apply for positions listed in job
      announcements.    Employers   shall   make   all   employment
      decisions based on merit, with not less than 5% of the  hours
      worked  on  a  State  contract meeting certain specifications
      being  worked  by  qualified  aid   recipients,   with   some
      exceptions.   Employment  terms  and  conditions shall be the
      same as for any other  member  of  the  employer's  workforce
      doing  the  same  or  similar  work.   Provides  for  reports
      regarding  hiring practices under this Act to be submitted to
      the General  Assembly,  the  Department  of  Labor,  and  the
      Department of Public Aid, or the Department of Human Services
      as  successor agency to the Department of Public Aid.  Amends
      the Personnel Code and the Illinois Purchasing  Act  to  make
      changes in conformance with this Act.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT concerning employment.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 1.  Short title.  This Act may be  cited  as  the
 5    Welfare to Work Act.
 6        Section  5.   Legislative findings; purpose.  The General
 7    Assembly hereby finds that:
 8        (a)  Poverty  and  welfare  dependence   are   widespread
 9    throughout  the  State of  Illinois.  Almost 1,500,000 of its
10    citizens are  dependent  on  the  State's  public  assistance
11    programs  for  their  most  basic  needs;  and  over  200,000
12    families, including 500,000 children, rely on cash assistance
13    from the State for all or part of their subsistence needs.
14        (b)  Poverty   and   unemployment   diminish   individual
15    self-esteem,  can    undermine  family  stability, and affect
16    family formation, community security and cohesion.
17        (c)  Under the new  federal  welfare  law,  the  Personal
18    Responsibility  and  Work  Opportunity  Reconciliation Act of
19    1996, cash assistance benefits will be limited to 60  months,
20    and    over 100,000 adult heads of households in the Illinois
21    welfare caseload must be employed by the year  2002  or  they
22    and their children will be destitute.
23        (d)  Voluntary  efforts  by  the private sector to employ
24    welfare recipients are laudable and are to be commended,  but
25    the State must also take direct responsibility to ensure that
26    welfare  recipients are hired in jobs that will allow them to
27    leave the welfare rolls altogether.
28        (e)  The State spends billions of dollars  each  year  to
29    improve  its  economy  and  infrastructure,  and  to  deliver
30    services to the people of the State, all of which also serves
31    to provide jobs for its citizens.
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 1        (f)  The State can accomplish the objectives of relieving
 2    welfare dependency  and ensuring economic self-sufficiency as
 3    well  as  the  objectives  related to carrying out  necessary
 4    governmental  operations  at  the   same   time,   and   with
 5    significant  savings  in State outlays in cash assistance and
 6    supportive service dollars.
 7        (g)  Poverty and welfare dependency can be alleviated  by
 8    targeting  some of the resources of the State and making jobs
 9    available to  the  welfare  poor,  specifically  by  bringing
10    qualified  poor persons into the State workforce and into the
11    workforces  that  are  generated  through  State   contracts,
12    without causing the displacement of existing workers.
13        (h)  Some  State  jobs that are newly created or that are
14    open through attrition and  some  jobs  created  under  State
15    contracts,  can   be  filled  by qualified welfare recipients
16    without compromising the integrity  of  the  hiring  process,
17    contractor  profits, collective bargaining agreements, timely
18    completion of projects, or the health and safety of  Illinois
19    workers.
20        (i)  To  the extent that these jobs are filled by welfare
21    recipients, the State accomplishes 4  important  governmental
22    objectives  simultaneously:   (1)  the alleviation of welfare
23    dependency,  ensuring  of  economic   self-sufficiency,   and
24    lifting  of  individuals and families out of poverty, (2) the
25    stabilization of families and communities  that  are  hardest
26    hit   by   persistent   poverty  and  unemployment,  (3)  the
27    accomplishment of the essential work of the State which  must
28    be  performed  through  these  jobs, and (4) the reduction of
29    State outlays for cash assistance and services for the poor.
30        (j)  The  State's  immediate,  direct   and   significant
31    interest  in  relieving welfare dependency and the employment
32    of the poor in jobs  generated  through  the  expenditure  of
33    State funds constitutes the basis of this Act.
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 1        Section 10.  Definitions.  As used in this Act:
 2        "Aid recipient" means:
 3             (a)  a  person  financially eligible to receive cash
 4        assistance under the Aid  to    Families  with  Dependent
 5        Children  program  (or  any  successor program, including
 6        Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), the Transitional
 7        Assistance program, or any other cash assistance  program
 8        administered  by  the  Department  of  Public Aid (or its
 9        successor, the Department of Human Services) financed  in
10        whole or in part by the State;
11             (b)   a   person   financially   eligible  for  cash
12        assistance under Article  VI  of  the  Public  Aid  Code,
13        whether   receiving   assistance   or  not;  an  Earnfare
14        participant; and an unemployed person or employed  person
15        who  is  earning less than the poverty level in wages and
16        who is also married to the parent of  a  child  receiving
17        cash  assistance  or  the legally adjudicated father of a
18        child receiving cash assistance; and
19             (c) a person who, within the previous 60 months, has
20        been found eligible and placed for training or employment
21        under  the  U.S.  Department   of   Housing   and   Urban
22        Development's  Section  3  program,  or  under  any other
23        local, state or federal government program  that  creates
24        training  or  hiring  preferences  or  priorities for low
25        income persons, and who was, at the time  of  entry  into
26        such   program   an  "aid  recipient"  as  defined  under
27        paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition.
28        "Contracts for personal services" has the same meaning as
29    under Section 14 of the State Finance Act.
30        "Covered contract" means a contract, aid or grant between
31    the State and other  entity  or  entities,  whether  private,
32    public  or  not-for-profit,  regardless of the purpose of the
33    contract, aid or grant, and means contracts, aid  and  grants
34    between    those   entities   and   their   contractors   and
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 1    subcontractors, but only if the contract or grant is  payable
 2    by  the  State  in  an  amount  in  excess  of  $250,000 or a
 3    subcontract  is  for  an  amount  in  excess   of   $100,000.
 4    Recipients  of  contracts,  aid  and  grants  may  not divide
 5    contracts or  spread  out  the  work  to  be  undertaken  for
 6    purposes of avoiding having a covered contract.
 7        "Covered  employee"  means a person who is found eligible
 8    for employment and  hired under this Act.
 9        "Covered employer" means an  employer  in  receipt  of  a
10    "covered   contract"   payment   and   thus  subject  to  the
11    requirements  of  this  Act  with  respect  to   a   "covered
12    contract".
13        "Covered  position"  means  a  State-funded  position  of
14    employment,  whether  civil  service  or  under  contract for
15    personal services, that the Department of Public Aid (or  its
16    successor,  the  Department  of Human Services) has not found
17    exempt under Section 25 of this Act.
18        "Qualified aid recipient" means an  "aid  recipient"  who
19    meets  each  of  the    qualifications,  including education,
20    training, and experience, if any, that have been  established
21    by the employer for the position.
22        "State  agencies"  means  all  State departments (whether
23    code  or  otherwise),   boards,   commissions,   authorities,
24    councils,    officers,    bureaus,    units,   colleges   and
25    universities,  and  executive,   legislative   and   judicial
26    agencies.
27        Section  15.   Disclosure of potential covered positions.
28    Simultaneously  with  posting  its  positions  or  putting  a
29    position out for hire by contract, each  State  agency  shall
30    provide  the  Department of Public Aid (or its successor, the
31    Department  of  Human  Services)  with  a  copy  of   a   job
32    announcement    specifying    the    job    description   and
33    qualifications of each position that  is  newly  created,  is
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 1    open,  or  is  otherwise  posted  for  hire or for hire under
 2    contract.  This requirement does not apply when the  position
 3    is  one  that  is subject to recall by a laid-off employee or
 4    employees.
 5        Section 20. Duties of the Department of  Public  Aid  (or
 6    its successor agency, the Department of Human Services).  The
 7    Department  shall administer that portion of this Act related
 8    to   reviewing   positions,    eligibility    determinations,
 9    recruitment,  screening,  and  referral  of aid recipients to
10    covered positions and positions under covered contracts.
11        Section 25.  Review of Positions.
12        (a)  The   Department   shall   review   each    position
13    announcement provided to it by State agencies to determine if
14    there  currently are any potentially qualified aid recipients
15    that could be referred to apply for the position.
16        (b)  If the Department determines there are no or too few
17    potentially qualified aid recipients to identify readily  for
18    referral  for  the position, the Department shall provide the
19    State agency with a notice exempting that position  from  the
20    provisions  of  this  Act.  The Department may permanently or
21    temporarily exempt a position.
22        (c)  If the position is permanently exempted,  the  State
23    agency   need   not  provide  the  Department  with  position
24    announcements for that position in the future.  However,  the
25    Department  may,  at  any  time,  revoke its exemption of any
26    position, and from the point of that revocation forward,  the
27    State   agency   again  shall  provide  the  Department  with
28    announcements of that position.
29        (d)  If  the  position  is  temporarily   exempted,   the
30    provisions  of this Act do not apply to the position, but the
31    State agency must provide announcements to the Department  of
32    future openings of that position.
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 1        (e)  If  the position is not determined by the Department
 2    to be exempted, it is a covered position under this Act.
 3        Section  30.   Eligibility  Determinations.    Upon   the
 4    request  of  a  person  who believes that he or she is an aid
 5    recipient within the meaning of this Act or the request of  a
 6    State  agency or covered employer on behalf of such a person,
 7    the Department shall make the determination  of  whether  the
 8    person is an aid recipient within the meaning of this Act and
 9    shall  provide  the  necessary written proof of aid recipient
10    status  to  the  aid  recipient  and  to  any  other  person,
11    including the party making  request  on  behalf  of  the  aid
12    recipient, if the aid recipient authorizes it in writing.
13        Section  35.   Recruitment,  screening  and  referrals to
14    training and for jobs under this Act.
15        (a)  In  order  to  facilitate   a   steady   stream   of
16    potentially qualified aid recipients into positions available
17    under this Act, the Department shall:
18             (1)  work  with  public, private, and not-for-profit
19        job training programs and  certified joint apprenticeship
20        training programs to develop and  make  use  of  training
21        programs  to  facilitate   channeling aid recipients into
22        such training programs that  correspond  with,  and  will
23        qualify  them  for,  open covered positions and positions
24        under covered contracts;
25             (2)  coordinate  the  recruitment,  screening,   and
26        referrals  for  placement  of aid recipients in education
27        and  training  programs  that  correspond  with  the  job
28        qualifications and requirements of covered positions  and
29        positions under covered contracts;
30             (3)  coordinate   the  recruitment,  screening,  and
31        referrals of potentially   qualified  aid  recipients  to
32        employers  for open covered positions and positions under
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 1        covered contracts;
 2        (b)  The Department shall maintain an  equal  balance  in
 3    its  referrals  of  potentially  qualified  aid recipients to
 4    training programs, to employers for covered positions, and to
 5    positions  under  covered  contracts  as  between  those  who
 6    qualify  under  paragraph  (a)  of  the  definition  of  "aid
 7    recipient" in Section 10  of  this  Act  (or  who  originally
 8    qualified under paragraph (a) but who are now qualified under
 9    paragraph  (c)  of  that  definition),  and those who qualify
10    under paragraph (b) of the definition of "aid recipient"  (or
11    who  originally qualified under paragraph (b) but who are now
12    qualified under paragraph (c)).
13        (c)  Support    services,    including     transportation
14    assistance, uniforms, tools, and supplies, that are otherwise
15    provided  to  "aid  recipients"  under  paragraph  (a) of the
16    definition of "aid recipient" shall be provided, in the  same
17    manner and measure, to those "aid recipients" under paragraph
18    (b)  of  the definition of "aid recipient" in connection with
19    employment related services provided by the Department  under
20    this Act.
21        (d)  The  duties  of  the  Department  specified  in this
22    Section may be carried  out,  in  whole  or  in  part,  under
23    contracts  entered into by the Department with units of local
24    government   or    by    not-for-profit    community    based
25    organizations.
26        Section  40.   Hiring  without referrals authorized.  Any
27    aid recipient who believes he  or  she  is  a  qualified  aid
28    recipient  may  apply,  without a referral by the Department,
29    for jobs under this Act. For any  covered  position,  whether
30    previously  determined  by  the  Department  to  be a covered
31    position or not, if the State agency finds the  applicant  to
32    be a qualified aid recipient, the applicant shall be provided
33    the  preference  this  Act  affords. For any position under a
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 1    covered  contract,  the  employer  may   count,   under   the
 2    requirements imposed under this Act, any aid recipient hired,
 3    whether referred by the Department or not.
 4        Section  45.   Hiring  requirements  relative  to covered
 5    positions.
 6        (a)  Verification that an applicant for a position is  an
 7    aid  recipient  shall  be made by the State agency by copying
 8    for its records the applicant's public aid card or such other
 9    proof of aid recipient status as has been provided to the aid
10    recipient or employer by the Department.
11        (b)  The State agency with the open position  shall  make
12    the  determination  of   whether an aid recipient who applies
13    for the position is qualified for hire.
14        (c)  The  State  agency  shall  provide   qualified   aid
15    recipients  with  a hiring  preference in accordance with the
16    requirements for civil service positions under Section 8b.7-1
17    of the Personnel Code,  and  for  personal  service  contract
18    positions,  under  Section  9.01-1 of the Illinois Purchasing
19    Act.
20        (d)  The minimum qualifications for hire, wages, days per
21    week, hours per day, shifts  of  employment,  and  terms  and
22    conditions  of employment of a qualified aid recipient who is
23    hired under this Act shall be the same as for  other  members
24    of  the  employer's  workforce doing the same or similar work
25    and shall be subject to the same State and federal laws.
26        (e)  Nothing in this Act prevents  a  State  agency  from
27    counting  a  person  hired  under  this  Act,  who  is also a
28    protected  female  or  minority,   toward   that   employer's
29    affirmative action obligations that may otherwise be imposed.
30        (f)  Nothing  in  this  Act diminishes the full authority
31    and prerogative of State agencies to determine  independently
32    an  aid  recipient's qualifications and to make independently
33    all hiring decisions, based on merit, under this Act.
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 1        Section  50.   Contract   requirements.    Each   covered
 2    contract  shall  contain  provisions incorporating all of the
 3    following requirements:
 4        (a)  Not less than 5% of the hours worked under positions
 5    that are paid under a covered contract  shall  be  worked  by
 6    qualified aid recipients.
 7        (b)  In  order  to facilitate compliance with this Act, a
 8    covered employer may  notify the Department of Public Aid (or
 9    its successor agency, the Department of  Human  Services)  of
10    jobs  that  are  opening under the covered contract for which
11    aid recipients may be qualified in order to receive referrals
12    of aid recipients by the Department.
13        (c)  The covered employer shall verify that an  applicant
14    for  a  position  is  an  aid recipient, and shall maintain a
15    record of the aid  recipient's  status  by  copying  for  its
16    records  the  applicant's public aid card or such other proof
17    of aid recipient status as has been provided to the recipient
18    or employer by the Department of Public Aid (or its successor
19    agency, the Department of Human Services).
20        (d)  The covered employer shall make the determination of
21    whether an aid  recipient who applies for the position  is  a
22    qualified  aid  recipient.   Nothing  in  this  Act implies a
23    diminution of the full authority and prerogative  of  covered
24    employers  to  determine  independently  an  aid  recipient's
25    qualifications and to make independently all hiring decisions
26    under  this  Act.  No State agency may require an employer to
27    hire an aid recipient who is not qualified for  the  position
28    for which the aid recipient is applying.
29        (e)  The number of covered employees in a workforce shall
30    be  calculated as  follows:  the number of total hours worked
31    under the contract are the "worker  hours."   The  number  of
32    hours  that  covered employees have worked under the contract
33    are the "covered  employee  hours."   The  "covered  employee
34    hours" shall be divided by the "worker hours" and the product
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 1    shall  be  no  less  than   0.05.    If  the covered contract
 2    includes positions that are otherwise reported to  the  State
 3    and  federal  government  only  by  daily or weekly full time
 4    equivalency, then those  positions  shall  be  calculated  by
 5    dividing the full-time equivalent of the covered employees in
 6    those  positions  by the total full-time equivalent for those
 7    positions.  An employer may sponsor a covered  worker  in  an
 8    apprenticeship   training   program  or  other  education  or
 9    training program, in which case the employer  may  count  the
10    number  of  hours  or  days in off-site training or classroom
11    instruction toward the requirements of this Section.
12        (f)  A covered employer who is unable to hire at least 5%
13    of its  workforce  from  qualified  aid  recipients  under  a
14    covered contract shall certify to the Department of Labor and
15    the  Department  of  Public Aid (or its successor agency, the
16    Department of Human Services) the  circumstances  which  made
17    meeting  the  requirements of this Act impossible.  Permitted
18    circumstances   may   include   the   high   percentage    of
19    professional,  high  skilled, or journey level workers needed
20    under the contract, the need to recall out of work  employees
21    who  are  receiving  unemployment  compensation  through  the
22    covered  employer,  or  other  circumstances  outside  of the
23    control of the covered employer.  If a covered  employer  has
24    not  met the percentage hire requirements under this Act, and
25    did not notify  the  Department  of  jobs  that  have  become
26    available  under its covered contract, and jobs existed under
27    that contract for potentially qualified aid  recipients,  the
28    covered  employer  shall  be deemed to have been able to hire
29    the requisite percentage of aid recipients  under  this  Act,
30    and failed to do so.
31        (g)  At  the  request  of  the  covered  employer  to the
32    Department of  Public  Aid  (or  its  successor  agency,  the
33    Department  of  Human  Services),  the requirements of hiring
34    covered employees  under  this  Section  may  be  waived,  in
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 1    advance,   by  the  Department,  in  whole  or  in  part,  in
 2    accordance with  rules  established  by  the  Department,  if
 3    enough qualified aid recipients are not referred or cannot be
 4    hired  due  to circumstances set forth in subsection (5).  To
 5    receive this waiver, the covered employer  must  request  the
 6    waiver  before  hiring  under  the covered contract, and must
 7    include in its request for the waiver, job  descriptions  for
 8    each  of  the  positions  that  are subject to hire under the
 9    covered contract, and the number of people  estimated  to  be
10    hired for each such job.
11        (h)  The  minimum qualifications for hire, and the wages,
12    days per week, hours per day, shifts of employment, and terms
13    and conditions of employment, of a covered employee shall  be
14    the  same  as  for  other members of the employer's workforce
15    doing the same or similar work and shall be  subject  to  the
16    same State and federal laws.
17        (i)  Covered  employees  shall  abide  by  all health and
18    safety rules and  laws    imposed  on  a  covered  employer's
19    workforce.
20        (j)  This  Act  does  not  require  covered  employers to
21    provide any additional or separate training or apprenticeship
22    programs for aid  recipients  that  the  employer  would  not
23    otherwise  provide  to  other  workers in the same or similar
24    jobs at the same or similar level of experience.
25        (k)  Nothing in this Act prevents a covered employer from
26    counting a covered  employee, who is also a protected  female
27    or   minority,   toward  the  employer's  affirmative  action
28    obligations that may otherwise be imposed.
29        Section 55.  Duties of  the  Department  of  Labor.   The
30    Department  of  Labor  shall  ensure  that  covered employers
31    comply with the provisions of this Act and  shall  work  with
32    the  Department  of  Public Aid (or its successor agency, the
33    Department  of  Human  Services)  and  the  Social   Services
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 1    Advisory Council in promulgating rules for implementation and
 2    governance  and  to  effectuate  the  purposes  of  this Act,
 3    including contractor compliance.  In promulgating  compliance
 4    rules,   the   Illinois  Department  of  Labor  shall  create
 5    provisions that assure that there will be good faith attempts
 6    at negotiation and conciliation, and  the  affording  of  the
 7    protections  of  due  process  of  law  before  any sanctions
 8    against a contractor are imposed.
 9        Section 60.  Compliance and Reporting.
10        (a)  The Department  of  Public  Aid  (or  its  successor
11    agency,  the Department of Human Services), the Department of
12    Labor, and the General  Assembly  are  jointly  empowered  to
13    ensure   and   monitor  covered  employer  and  State  agency
14    compliance with the provisions of this Act.
15        (b)  Each State agency shall annually prepare a report to
16    the Department Public  Aid  (or  its  successor  agency,  the
17    Department  of  Human  Services)  and  the  General  Assembly
18    demonstrating its hiring under this Act.  The report shall be
19    submitted  to  the  Department  and the minority and majority
20    leaders of the House of Representatives  and  the  Senate  no
21    later  than  January  31  of each year.  The report shall set
22    forth, for the previous calendar year, the  total  number  of
23    positions filled by the State agency, the number of positions
24    not  exempted  and  thus found to be covered positions by the
25    Department,  and  the  number  of  positions  filled  by  aid
26    recipients.
27        (c)  The Department  of  Public  Aid  (or  its  successor
28    agency,  the  Department of Human Services) shall collate the
29    reports and shall submit a report to the General Assembly  no
30    later  than  the  first  day  of March of each year, with the
31    totals, broken down by State agency in each category, and the
32    grand totals for the State in each of the three categories.
33        (d)  Both the original reports and the summary Department
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 1    report shall be  subject to  public  inspection,  review  and
 2    copying.
 3        (e)  Each  covered  contractor  shall  annually prepare a
 4    single duplicated report that documents its hiring  practices
 5    under this Act that shall be submitted both to the Department
 6    of  Labor  and the Department of Public Aid (or its successor
 7    agency, the Department of Human Services).  The report  shall
 8    be  submitted  no  later  than  January 31 of each year.  The
 9    report shall set forth, for the previous calendar  year,  for
10    each covered contract, the calculations of total worker hours
11    and  covered  employee  hours  and  the percentage of covered
12    employee hours, and such other data and information as may be
13    required by rule.
14        (f)  The Department of Labor shall collate the contractor
15    reports and  shall  submit  a  report  to  the  minority  and
16    majority  leaders of both chambers of the General Assembly no
17    later than the first day of March  of  each  year,  with  the
18    total worker hours, the total covered employee hours, and the
19    percentage  of  hours  of  work  by  covered  employees.  The
20    Department  of  Public  Aid shall set forth the number of aid
21    recipients who have closed their aid cases or had  their  aid
22    reduced as a result of positions obtained under this Act, and
23    shall  set forth such other data and cost savings as it deems
24    appropriate.
25        (g)  The Department's summary reports shall be subject to
26    public inspection,  review and copying.
27        Section 905.  The Personnel Code  is  amended  by  adding
28    Section 8b.7-1. as follows:
29        (20 ILCS 415/8b.7-1 new)
30        Sec. 8b.7-1. Qualified aid recipient preference.  For the
31    granting  of preferences to "qualified aid recipients" within
32    the meaning of the Welfare to Work Act.  The preference shall
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 1    be given only after the application and provision of veterans
 2    preferences under  Section  8b.7,  unless  the  applicant  is
 3    subject  to preferences under both veterans and qualified aid
 4    recipient designations, in which  case  those  persons  shall
 5    take  precedence.   When  qualified  aid  recipients  are  on
 6    eligible  lists  on  the  basis  of category rankings such as
 7    superior,  excellent,  well-qualified,  and  qualified,  they
 8    shall be preferred over non-veterans who  are  not  qualified
 9    aid recipients in the same category.  Notwithstanding Section
10    8b.5,  when  a  list is prepared by numerical rankings, and a
11    qualified aid recipient is one of the top 3 candidates on the
12    basis of the numerical ranking, the qualified  aid  recipient
13    shall be appointed, unless one or two of the other candidates
14    is a qualified veteran.
15        Section  910.   The Illinois Purchasing Act is amended by
16    adding Section 9.01-1 as follows:
17        (30 ILCS 505/9.01-1 new)
18        Sec. 9.01-1. Contracts for personal  services;  qualified
19    aid  recipients.    All  contracts  for personal services, as
20    defined under Section 14 of the State Finance Act,  shall  be
21    subject  to  the  preference  of  "qualified  aid recipients"
22    within the meaning of the Welfare to Work  Act,  over  others
23    who are similarly qualified.
24        Section 999.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
25    becoming law.

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