Public Act 097-0136
 
HB3360 EnrolledLRB097 05456 AEK 45515 b



    AN ACT concerning State government.

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


 
    Section 5. The Public Employment Office Act is amended  by 
changing Section 1d as follows:
 



    (20 ILCS 1015/1d)  (from Ch. 48, par. 177)



    Sec. 1d. It shall be the duty of the Department of 
Employment Security to
obtain from the Department of Public 
Welfare, ninety days before the
discharge of any convict from 
either penitentiary, or the discharge of a
prisoner from the 
reformatory, the name, occupation, and such other
information 
as may be of aid in obtaining employment for such discharged

convict or prisoner.

    The Department of Employment Security, through the several 
free employment
offices, in cooperation with the Department of 
Corrections, shall seek to provide proper employment 
opportunities for discharged convicts or
prisoners, so that 
such employment may be available at the time of such
discharge, 
and shall assist such discharged prisoners to retain suitable

employment for such reasonable time as will afford such 
prisoners an
opportunity to become self-reliant, to the end 
that every man shall be
encouraged in his effort to go 
straight. In no instance shall there be any
misrepresentation 
as to the records of persons for whom employment is
sought, 
under the provisions of this Section.

    The Department of Employment Security through the several 
free employment
offices shall also co-operate with the 
Department of Corrections Public Welfare to secure
suitable 
employment for paroled convicts or prisoners and to help them

retain such employment during the period of their parole and 
for such
reasonable time thereafter as shall afford such 
convicts or prisoners an
opportunity to become self-reliant.

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


 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.