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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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