Public Act 094-0099
 		





HB2566 Enrolled
LRB094 03839 WGH 35756 b






    AN ACT concerning veterans.

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


 
    Section 5. The Veterans' Employment Act is amended  by 
changing Sections 3, 5, 6, and 7 as follows:
 



    (330 ILCS 25/3)  (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 203)



    Sec. 3. Definition. For the purposes of this Act, 
"Director" means the
Director of the Department of Commerce and 
Economic Opportunity
Employment Security or
its successor 
agency.

(Source: P.A. 88-12.)

 



    (330 ILCS 25/5)  (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 205)



    Sec. 5. Service centers. 

    (a) The Director shall designate multipurpose service

centers for veterans operated by community nonprofit
agencies 
or organizations.  To the greatest extent possible, the
Director 
shall rely on such agencies or organizations whose major

emphasis has been to provide social services.

    (b) The Director shall search for such nonprofit agencies 
or
organizations to carry out the programs created under this 
Act.

    (c) The Director shall designate the agencies or 
organizations to carry
out such programs.

    (d) Subject to appropriation, the Director shall begin to 
provide the
necessary funds to the nonprofit agencies
or 
organizations to set up and begin the operation of the 
multipurpose
service centers.  Thereafter the Director shall 
provide the funds
appropriated for grants to the centers as the 
costs of the centers are
incurred.

    (e) The Director shall, with the advice of the staff of the 
centers,
promulgate rules and regulations to implement this 
Act.  Such rules and
regulations shall include eligibility of 
persons for job training
programs, the level of stipends for 
the job training programs, and a
sliding fee scale for the 
service programs.

    (f) In performing his duties pursuant to this Act, the 
Director shall
consult and cooperate with such State agencies 
as may be appropriate, including but not limited to the 
Illinois Department of
Employment Security and the Department 
of
Veterans' Affairs
to ensure that there is no
duplication of 
services.

(Source: P.A. 88-12.)

 



    (330 ILCS 25/6)  (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 206)



    Sec. 6. (a) The multipurpose service centers shall, after 
consulting
and in cooperation with the Illinois Department of

Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Employment Security, develop 
job counseling and placement services by
cooperating with 
federal, State and local governmental agencies and private

employers.  The services shall include:

    (1) counseling veterans with respect to appropriate job 
opportunities;

    (2) identifying community needs and seeking funding for new

public and private sector jobs in relation to this Act; 

    (3) providing veterans with training, skills and
referral 
services to help them to become gainfully employed and 
independent;

    (4) developing plans to include more veterans in
existing 
training and placement programs; and

    (5) referring veterans to agencies which provide

information and assistance with respect to health care,

financial matters, education, nutrition and legal problems.

    (b) To the extent possible, the centers shall serve

surrounding rural areas through a rural outreach effort.

    (c) To the extent possible, supervisory, technical and

administrative positions relating to the multipurpose service

programs shall be filled by veterans.

    (d) The director of each center shall submit an annual 
report
to the Director.  The report shall include evaluations
of 
the effectiveness of the job training, placement and service

programs to veterans including the number of
persons trained, 
the number of persons placed in employment,
follow-up data on 
such persons, the number of persons served
by the various 
service programs, and estimates of the cost effectiveness of 
the
various components of the center.
The Director shall also 
require quarterly reports and shall by rule specify
the 
information to be included in the quarterly reports.

    (e) The director of each center may accept, use and
dispose 
of contributions of money, services and property
for the 
purposes of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 85-792.)

 



    (330 ILCS 25/7)  (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 207)



    Sec. 7. (a) The sponsoring nonprofit agency or organization 
shall
consult and cooperate with the Illinois Department of 
Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Employment Security
to 
ensure that there is no duplication of services, and shall 
cooperate
with federal, State and local agencies to coordinate 
the multiservice
programs established under this Act. 

    (b) The agency or organization and the communities
served 
by programs established under this Act shall
provide a total of 
not less than 5% of the cost of the
operation of the centers to 
supplement monies appropriated
to implement and continue this 
Act.

(Source: P.A. 83-1503.)