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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1721
Introduced 2/9/2007, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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20 ILCS 1015/1d |
from Ch. 48, par. 177 |
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Amends the Public Employment Office Act. Deletes obsolete references to the Department of Public Welfare in the Section concerning the Department of Employment Security's duty to seek employment of discharged convicts or prisoners. Deletes redundant language.
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A BILL FOR
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SB1721 |
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LRB095 08625 CMK 28808 b |
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Employment Office Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 1d as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1015/1d) (from Ch. 48, par. 177)
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| Sec. 1d. It shall be the duty of the Department of |
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| Employment Security to
obtain from the Department of Public |
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| Welfare, ninety days before the
discharge of any convict from |
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| either penitentiary, or the discharge of a
prisoner from the |
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| reformatory, the name, occupation, and such other
information |
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| as may be of aid in obtaining employment for such discharged
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| convict or prisoner.
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| The Department of Employment Security, through the several |
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| free employment
offices, shall seek to provide proper |
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| employment for discharged convicts or
prisoners, so that such |
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| employment may be available at the time of such
discharge, and |
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| shall assist such discharged prisoners to retain suitable
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| employment for such reasonable time as will afford such |
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| prisoners an
opportunity to become self-reliant, to the end |
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| that every man shall be
encouraged in his effort to go |
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| straight. In no instance shall there be any
misrepresentation |
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| as to the records of persons for whom employment is
sought, |