Full Text of SB2295

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB2295

Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Celina Villanueva

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 605/605-55

was 20 ILCS 605/46.21

Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may enter into contracts, including, but not limited to, making grants and loans, with employment social enterprises. Defines terms.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 605-55 as follows:

(20 ILCS 605/605-55) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.21)

Sec. 605-55. Contracts and other acts to accomplish Department's duties. To make and enter into contracts, including, but not limited to, making grants and loans to units of local government, private agencies as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act, non-profit corporations, educational institutions, employment social enterprises, and for-profit businesses as authorized pursuant to appropriations by the General Assembly from the Build Illinois Bond Fund, the Rebuild Illinois Projects Fund, the Fund for Illinois' Future, the Capital Development Fund, and the General Revenue Fund, and generally to do all things that, in its judgment, may be necessary, proper, and expedient in accomplishing its duties. For the purposes of this Section, "employment social enterprise" means a non-profit or for-profit entity that provides services or produces or assembles goods and demonstrates a mission to provide employment and social supports, including on-the-job training and life skills training, to employees who are individuals with a barrier to employment.

(Source: P.A. 102-699, eff. 4-19-22; 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)