Full Text of SB2140 101st General Assembly
SB2140ham004 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr. Filed: 2/6/2020
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2140
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2140, AS AMENDED, | 3 | | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 | | following:
| 5 | | "Section 5. If and only if Senate Bill 1407 of the 101st | 6 | | General Assembly becomes law in the form in which it passed the | 7 | | Senate, then the Illinois Hazardous Materials Workforce | 8 | | Training Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows: | 9 | | (101st G.A., SB1407 Engrossed, Sec. 10) | 10 | | Section 10. Advanced safety training. | 11 | | (a) The Department shall develop by rule a curriculum of | 12 | | approved advanced safety training for workers at high hazard | 13 | | facilities. That training shall be available through the | 14 | | Department or instruction may be provided by a community | 15 | | college or United States Department of Labor apprenticeship | 16 | | program. The Department shall approve a curriculum in |
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| 1 | | accordance with this subsection (a) by January 1, 2021, and | 2 | | shall periodically revise the curriculum to reflect current | 3 | | best practices. Upon receipt of certification from the | 4 | | apprenticeship program or community college, the Department | 5 | | shall issue a certificate to a worker who completes the | 6 | | approved training.
| 7 | | (b) An owner or operator, when contracting for the | 8 | | performance of construction work at the stationary source, | 9 | | shall require that its contractors and any subcontractors use a | 10 | | skilled and trained workforce to perform all onsite work within | 11 | | an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction | 12 | | trades. | 13 | | (c) The requirements of this Section shall not immediately | 14 | | apply to contracts awarded before July January 1, 2020, unless | 15 | | the contract is extended or renewed after that date.
Contracts | 16 | | awarded before July January 1, 2020 shall meet the requirements | 17 | | of this Section no later than July January 1, 2021. | 18 | | (d) The requirements of this Section shall only apply to | 19 | | the skilled and trained workforce, contracted with an owner or | 20 | | operator to perform construction work at the stationary source | 21 | | site.
| 22 | | (e) The skilled and trained workforce requirements under | 23 | | this Section shall not apply to:
| 24 | | (1) Contractors that have requested qualified workers | 25 | | from the local hiring halls that dispatch workers in the | 26 | | apprenticeable occupation and, due to workforce shortages, |
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| 1 | | the contractor is unable to obtain sufficient qualified | 2 | | workers within 48 hours of the request, Saturdays, Sundays, | 3 | | and holidays excepted. This Act shall not prevent | 4 | | contractors from obtaining workers from any source.
| 5 | | (2) An emergency where compliance is impracticable; | 6 | | namely, an emergency requires immediate action to prevent | 7 | | imminent harm to public health or safety or to the | 8 | | environment. Within 14 days of an emergency, the Attorney | 9 | | General's Workers Rights Bureau, in conjunction with the | 10 | | Illinois Department of Labor, must certify that the | 11 | | emergency warranted noncompliance with this Act. The | 12 | | employer must provide necessary documentation of the | 13 | | emergency to the Attorney General's Workers Rights Bureau | 14 | | and the Illinois Department of Labor.
| 15 | | (Source: 101st G.A., SB1407 Engrossed.)
| 16 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 | | becoming law, or on the date Senate Bill 1407 of the 101st | 18 | | General Assembly takes effect, whichever is later.".
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