Full Text of HB4370 95th General Assembly
HB4370eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State | 5 |
| Employees Flex-Time Mentoring Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to enable | 7 |
| State employees to use vacation, personal, and sick leave time | 8 |
| to participate in certain well-established mentoring programs. | 9 |
| Section 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 10 |
| "Eligible State employee" means an individual who: | 11 |
| (1) is a permanent, non-contractual State employee; | 12 |
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| (2) has provided, without monetary remuneration, | 14 |
| mentoring services to a qualified mentoring program for not | 15 |
| less than one year before requesting mentoring leave. | 16 |
| "Mentoring leave" means an eligible State employee's | 17 |
| vacation, personal, and sick time spent mentoring a child in a | 18 |
| qualified mentoring program. | 19 |
| "Qualified mentoring program" means a program that | 20 |
| finances, arranges for, and otherwise facilitates the | 21 |
| mentoring, by adults, on a one-to-one basis, of children who | 22 |
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| (1) enrolled in any school level between kindergarten | 2 |
| and the 12th grade; and | 3 |
| (2) under the age of 18. | 4 |
| Additionally, a qualified mentoring program must be a | 5 |
| not-for-profit, secular entity, organized under Section | 6 |
| 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. A | 7 |
| qualified mentoring program must also have been in existence | 8 |
| for at least 10 years before the effective date of this Act. | 9 |
| "State agency" has the same meaning as defined in Section | 10 |
| 1-7 of the Illinois State Auditing Act. | 11 |
| Section 15. Mentoring leave authorized. | 12 |
| (a) All State agencies may permit eligible State employees | 13 |
| to take mentoring leave. No employee may take more than 40 | 14 |
| hours of mentoring leave in a calendar year. | 15 |
| (b) At the time he or she requests mentoring leave, an | 16 |
| eligible State employee must provide his or her supervisor with | 17 |
| written verification from a qualified mentoring program that | 18 |
| the employee has performed at least one year of mentoring | 19 |
| services as required under the definition of "eligible State | 20 |
| employee". | 21 |
| (c) Each State agency that elects to permit mentoring flex | 22 |
| time for its employees must implement an application process by | 23 |
| which an eligible employee under its authority can apply for | 24 |
| mentoring leave. All participating State agencies retain | 25 |
| unfettered discretion to permit or deny an eligible employee's |
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| request for mentoring leave. Participating agencies must take | 2 |
| into account the following factors in evaluating applications | 3 |
| for mentoring leave: | 4 |
| (1) the operational needs of the State; | 5 |
| (2) the budgetary concerns of the agency; and | 6 |
| (3) any limitations imposed by law. | 7 |
| Section 20. No rulemaking authority. Notwithstanding any | 8 |
| other rulemaking authority that may exist, neither the Governor | 9 |
| nor any agency or agency head under the jurisdiction of the | 10 |
| Governor has any authority to make or promulgate rules to | 11 |
| implement or enforce the provisions of this Act. If, however, | 12 |
| the Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or | 13 |
| enforce the provisions of this Act, the Governor may suggest | 14 |
| rules to the General Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of | 15 |
| the House and Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that | 16 |
| the General Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, enact | 17 |
| those suggested rules into law, or take any other appropriate | 18 |
| action in the General Assembly's discretion. Nothing contained | 19 |
| in this Act shall be interpreted to grant rulemaking authority | 20 |
| under any other Illinois statute where such authority is not | 21 |
| otherwise explicitly given. For the purposes of this Act, | 22 |
| "rules" is given the meaning contained in Section 1-70 of the | 23 |
| Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, and "agency" and | 24 |
| "agency head" are given the meanings contained in Sections 1-20 | 25 |
| 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 | 2 |
| under the jurisdiction of the Governor.
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