AN ACT concerning appropriations.

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

    Section 5.  The sum of $64,200,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for funding the following:

    (1) an additional $1.70 per hour to be paid to vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services for the purpose of increasing, by at least $1.00 per hour, the wages paid by those vendors to their employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services, in order to adjust for the statewide minimum wage increase; and

    (2) an additional $1.33 per hour to be paid to vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services for the purpose of providing health insurance coverage to their employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services and to those employees' dependents.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July 1, 2008.