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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 must  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 to
18    revoke or suspend the license of anyone who after  a  hearing
19    is  found  to be guilty of misfeasance.  The Department shall
20    promulgate such rules as necessary to implement this Section.
21        On or before January 1, 2000, and every year  thereafter,
22    the  Department  shall submit an annual report to the General
23    Assembly on the implementation of this Section.
24        (b)  All employees of the Department or  its  contractors
25    who are employed on the effective date of this amendatory Act
26    of  1999  shall  have  until  January  1,  2003 to obtain the
27    required license.  All new employees of  the  Department  and
28    its  contractors shall be required to obtain the direct child
29    welfare service employee license as stipulated in  Department
30    rules.   By  January 1, 2000, the Department, in consultation
31    with private child welfare agencies, shall develop a plan  to
 
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 1    ensure  that  current  employees  of  the  Department and its
 2    contracting agencies will be able to  acquire  the  knowledge
 3    and  skill  necessary to obtain this license.  The Department
 4    shall have the authority to revoke or suspend the license  of
 5    anyone  who  after  a  hearing  is  found  to  be  guilty  of
 6    misfeasance.    The Department shall adopt rules to implement
 7    this Section.
 8    (Source: P.A. 90-608, eff. 6-30-98.)

 9        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
10    becoming law.

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