98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1323

 

Introduced 2/5/2013, by Sen. Mattie Hunter

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 757/Act rep.
525 ILCS 50/10 new

    Amends the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Relocates the Community Youth Employment Program to the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources instead of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall administer the competitive grant program to provide up to 5,000 youths with stipends or wages, or both, and supervision for a 52-week year round work program. Repeals the Community Youth Employment Act. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning conservation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    (30 ILCS 757/Act rep.)
5    Section 5. The Community Youth Employment Act is repealed.
 
6    Section 10. The Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment
7Act of 1986 is amended by adding Section 10 as follows:
 
8    (525 ILCS 50/10 new)
9    Sec. 10. Community Youth Employment Program.
10    (a) The Department of Natural Resources shall administer a
11competitive grant program that shall provide 5,000 youths with
12stipends or wages, or both, and supervision for a 52-week year
13round work period. The grants shall be awarded only to summer
14programs, of no more than 100 youths, that:
15        (1) are created and administered by a community-based
16    organization, not-for-profit organization, educational
17    institution, or governmental entity in Illinois through a
18    public-private partnership;
19        (2) utilize resources and facilities of the
20    Department;
21        (3) employ low-income youths in Illinois between the
22    ages of 14 and 21; and

 

 

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1        (4) involve age-appropriate, ability-appropriate, and
2    experience-appropriate:
3            (A) job training;
4            (B) life skills;
5            (C) education counseling;
6            (D) work-readiness skills; or
7            (E) supervised meaningful work experience
8        projects.
9    (b) Grant money awarded under this Section shall be used as
10follows:
11        (1) a stipend of $7.50 per hour for learning activities
12    and at least minimum wage for meaningful work experience
13    for a maximum of 200 hours per participating youth, to be
14    paid over a 10-week period;
15        (2) to provide salary for supervisors for each summer
16    program;
17        (3) for supportive services, including, but not
18    limited to, transportation and child care; and
19        (4) a 10% overhead, per summer program, to provide for
20    insurance and business necessities.
21    (c) Any entity receiving a grant under this Section must
22provide services to the youths receiving stipends or wages, or
23both, under this Section. In providing the following services,
24the entity must expend, out of the entity's budget, at least
2520% of any amount awarded in paragraphs (2) through (4) of
26subsection (b) of this Section to provide for services under

 

 

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1this Section. The services provided must include:
2        (1) job assessment services;
3        (2) recreation services;
4        (3) job placement services; or
5        (4) administration of this youth program.
6    The Department shall make public notification of the
7availability of jobs for eligible youths and young adults in
8the Community Youth Employment Program by the means of
9newspapers, electronic media, educational facilities, and
10units of local government.
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.