State of Illinois
91^st General Assembly
Public Acts

Public Act 91-0624

SB680 Enrolled                                 LRB9101971DJcd

    AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid  Code  by  adding
Section 9A-14.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
adding Section 9A-14 as follows:

    (305 ILCS 5/9A-14 new)
    Sec. 9A-14.  Job skills enhancement pilot program.
    (a)  The Illinois Department shall establish a job skills
enhancement pilot program to provide newly  employed  current
and  former  recipients of aid under Article IV with training
to enable those recipients to do  any  one  or  more  of  the
following:
         (1) Enhance their existing job-related skills.
         (2) Gain additional or alternative job skills.
         (3)  Learn  interpersonal  communication  and  other
    related skills.
    (b)   The   pilot   program  must  target  unskilled  and
semiskilled  current  and  former  recipients  of  aid  under
Article IV who are newly employed in  entry  level  positions
that  have  limited  potential  for  advancement beyond entry
level.  To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, a
person must meet all of the following requirements:
         (1) The person must have been  a  recipient  of  aid
    under  Article  IV  within  18 months before the date the
    person proposes  to  begin  participating  in  the  pilot
    program.
         (2)   The   person   must   have  been  employed  in
    entry-level employment for at least 6 months  before  the
    date  the  person  proposes to begin participating in the
    pilot program and must provide satisfactory  evidence  of
    that employment status.
         (3) The person must possess limited job skills.
         (4)  The  person  must  have limited opportunity for
    advancement in his or her current employment.
    (c) A recipient's participation in the pilot program must
be voluntary.    Every  person  participating  in  the  pilot
program  must  sign  a  training  agreement with the Illinois
Department.
    (d)  The  Illinois  Department  must  establish  a  pilot
program under this Section in each of 3 counties as follows:
         (1) One pilot program in Cook County.
         (2) One pilot program in a county that is contiguous
    to Cook County.
         (3) One pilot  program  in  a  county  that  is  not
    described in item (1) or (2).
    (e)  The  Secretary  of  Human  Services,  in  his or her
discretion and in consultation with the county department  of
a county in which the pilot program is established under this
Section, may direct that the pilot program be administered by
the  county  department or through the State service delivery
area system under the federal Job Training  Partnership  Act.
As  part  of their administrative responsibilities under this
subsection, a county  department  or  persons  at  a  service
delivery area location must do all of the following:
         (1) Manage each pilot program participant's training
    plan.
         (2)  Maintain  a  database of appropriate vendors of
    training services.
         (3) Contract for training services  to  be  provided
    under the pilot program.
         (4)  Compile  necessary  fiscal reports on the pilot
    program.