SMITH. 20 ILCS 605/46.69 new Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Allows the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to establish, with the advice of members of the business community, a family-friendly workplace initiative. States that the Department may develop a program to annually collect information regarding the State's private or public eligible employers with 50 or fewer employees and private or public eligible employers with 51 or more employees in the State providing the most family-friendly benefits to their employees. Provides that the employers may be recognized with annual "family-friendly workplace" awards and a Statewide information and advertising campaign publicizing the employers' awards, their contributions to family-friendly child care, and the methods they used to improve the dependent care experiences of their employees' families. Effective immediately. 97-02-05 S FIRST READING 97-02-05 S REFERRED TO SENATE RULES COMMITTEE RULES 97-02-06 S ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE STATE GOVERN 97-03-13 S HELD IN COMMITTEE 97-03-13 S COMMITTEE STATE GOVERN 97-03-15 S RE-REFERRED TO RULES COMM/RULE 3-9(A) RULES 99-01-12 S SESSION SINE DIE END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Summary