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State Government Administration Committee
Filed: 4/8/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4370
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4370 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State |
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| Employees Flex-Time Mentoring Act. |
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| Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to enable |
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| State employees to use vacation, personal, and sick leave time |
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| to participate in certain well-established mentoring programs. |
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| Section 10. Definitions. In this Act: |
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| "Eligible State employee" means an individual who: |
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| (1) is a permanent, non-contractual State employee; |
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| and |
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| (2) has provided, without monetary remuneration, |
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| mentoring services to a qualified mentoring program for not |
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| less than one year before requesting mentoring leave. |
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| "Mentoring leave" means an eligible State employee's |
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| vacation, personal, and sick time spent mentoring a child in a |
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| qualified mentoring program. |
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| "Qualified mentoring program" means a program that |
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| finances, arranges for, and otherwise facilitates the |
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| mentoring, by adults, on a one-to-one basis, of children who |
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| are: |
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| (1) enrolled in any school level between kindergarten |
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| and the 12th grade; and |
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| (2) under the age of 18. |
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| Additionally, a qualified mentoring program must be a |
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| not-for-profit, secular entity, organized under Section |
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| 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. A |
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| qualified mentoring program must also have been in existence |
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| for at least 10 years before the effective date of this Act. |
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| "State agency" has the same meaning as defined in Section |
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| 1-7 of the Illinois State Auditing Act. |
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| Section 15. Mentoring leave authorized. |
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| (a) All State agencies may, within 180 days after the |
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| effective date of this Act, permit eligible State employees to |
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| take mentoring leave. No employee may take more than 40 hours |
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| of mentoring leave in a calendar year. |
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| (b) At the time he or she requests mentoring leave, an |
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| eligible State employee must provide his or her supervisor with |
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| written verification from a qualified mentoring program that |
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| the employee has performed at least one year of mentoring |
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| services as required under the definition of "eligible State |
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| employee". |
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| (c) Within 180 days after the effective date of this Act, |
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| each State agency that elects to permit mentoring flex time for |
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| its employees must implement an application process by which an |
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| eligible employee under its authority can apply for mentoring |
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| leave. All participating State agencies retain unfettered |
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| discretion to permit or deny an eligible employee's request for |
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| mentoring leave. Participating agencies must take into account |
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| the following factors in evaluating applications for mentoring |
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| leave: |
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| (1) the operational needs of the State; |
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| (2) the budgetary concerns of the agency; and |
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| (3) any limitations imposed by law. |
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| Section 20. No rulemaking authority. Notwithstanding any |
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| other rulemaking authority that may exist, neither the Governor |
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| nor any agency or agency head under the jurisdiction of the |
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| Governor has any authority to make or promulgate rules to |
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| implement or enforce the provisions of this Act. If, however, |
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| the Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or |
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| enforce the provisions of this Act, the Governor may suggest |
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| rules to the General Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of |
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| the House and Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that |
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| the General Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, enact |
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| those suggested rules into law, or take any other appropriate |
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| action in the General Assembly's discretion. Nothing contained |
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| in this Act shall be interpreted to grant rulemaking authority |
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| under any other Illinois statute where such authority is not |
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| otherwise explicitly given. For the purposes of this Act, |
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| "rules" is given the meaning contained in Section 1-70 of the |
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| Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, and "agency" and |
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| "agency head" are given the meanings contained in Sections 1-20 |
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| and 1-25 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to the |
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| extent that such definitions apply to agencies or agency heads |
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| under the jurisdiction of the Governor.".
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