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91_HB0312
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1 AN ACT to amend the Children and Family Services Act by
2 changing Section 5c.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is
6 amended by changing Section 5c as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 505/5c)
8 Sec. 5c. Direct child welfare service employee license.
9 (a) By January 1, 2000, the Department, in consultation
10 with private child welfare agencies, shall develop and
11 implement a direct child welfare service employee license.
12 By January 1, 2001 all child protective investigators and
13 supervisors and child welfare specialists and supervisors
14 employed by the Department or its contractors shall be
15 required to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to
16 obtain and maintain the license, except as otherwise provided
17 in subsection (b). The Department shall have the authority
18 to revoke or suspend the license of anyone who after a
19 hearing is found to be guilty of misfeasance. The Department
20 shall promulgate such rules as necessary to implement this
21 Section.
22 On or before January 1, 2000, and every year thereafter,
23 the Department shall submit an annual report to the General
24 Assembly on the implementation of this Section.
25 (b) A child protective investigator or supervisor or a
26 child welfare specialist or supervisor who is employed by the
27 Department on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
28 1999 is deemed to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills
29 to be granted a direct child welfare service employee license
30 and shall be granted the license if he or she has completed
31 his or her probationary period and is a certified employee of
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1 the Department. The license may be revoked or suspended if
2 the employee is found guilty of misfeasance after a hearing
3 pursuant to subsection (a).
4 (Source: P.A. 90-608, eff. 6-30-98.)
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.