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91_HB2299
LRB9103435SMcb
1 AN ACT to amend the Veterans' Employment Representative
2 Act by changing Section 1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Veterans' Employment Representative Act
6 is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
7 (330 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 186a)
8 Sec. 1. Veteran services; representative. Each full
9 service office of the Job Service shall assign at least one
10 full time Veterans' Employment Representative, defined by
11 title and classification under the Personnel Code of
12 Illinois, to work exclusively in job counseling, training,
13 and placement of veterans. Preference for these positions
14 shall be given to qualified persons who have been members of
15 the armed forces of the United States in times of hostilities
16 with a foreign country. Any candidate for these positions
17 shall be deemed to have met and satisfied examination
18 admission requirements if the candidate served in the armed
19 forces during times of hostilities with a foreign country and
20 was honorably discharged therefrom due to a combat-related
21 disability. The holder of one of these positions such a
22 position shall be administratively responsible to the local
23 office manager, and his or her first line responsibility is
24 functional supervision of all local office services to
25 veterans. He or she may also be delegated line supervision
26 of veteran units, assistant local veterans' employment
27 representative, or veteran aid. Individualized veterans'
28 services such as application taking, counseling, job
29 referral, or training will continue to be provided to
30 veterans on a priority basis by all local office staff.
31 (Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98.)