Full Text of HB3516 101st General Assembly
HB3516ham002 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Arthur Turner Filed: 4/9/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3516
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3516, AS AMENDED, by | 3 | | replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 | | following:
| 5 | | "Section 5. The Rehabilitation of Persons with | 6 | | Disabilities Act is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:
| 7 | | (20 ILCS 2405/12) (from Ch. 23, par. 3443)
| 8 | | Sec. 12. Services for the visually impaired. The Department | 9 | | shall
provide community services and medical services, | 10 | | including, but not limited to, nursing staff services for basic | 11 | | medical care, for persons
with visual disabilities at the | 12 | | Illinois Center for
Rehabilitation
and Education to promote the | 13 | | general welfare and rehabilitation of
persons with major visual | 14 | | disabilities and provide such related services as
will promote | 15 | | independent living, lessen the limitations of their
| 16 | | disability, teach them vocational and other skills, and assist |
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| 1 | | in making
them self-supporting and responsible citizens of | 2 | | their communities. The
community services program shall | 3 | | provide such instruction and intensive
rehabilitation training | 4 | | service individually or in groups as is deemed
necessary and | 5 | | practicable for each individual case, using the best
| 6 | | appliances, skills, and specialist services known. The Center | 7 | | shall carry out these purposes by providing
appropriate | 8 | | training in a residential center for persons with visual
| 9 | | disabilities who are found to be qualified for such training.
| 10 | | In order to facilitate the training and rehabilitation of | 11 | | persons
with major visual disabilities in industrial work
| 12 | | processes and provide necessary services, the Center and the | 13 | | community services program shall have authority to seek
and | 14 | | negotiate contracts with agencies, individuals, firms, | 15 | | manufacturers or
corporations for the repair of machines or | 16 | | equipment for persons with
visual disabilities and for | 17 | | separating, sorting, packaging, tying,
wrapping, or otherwise | 18 | | putting together small objects. The rates charged
for such work | 19 | | shall be reasonable and adequate, and comparable to those
paid | 20 | | other persons for similar services, except as the projects are | 21 | | used
for training and rehabilitation of persons with visual | 22 | | disabilities who may
not be compensated during the period of | 23 | | training.
| 24 | | All money which has been or may be paid to, or is received | 25 | | as payment
for such work shall be deposited in an approved bank | 26 | | or savings and loan
association in a special account known as |
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| 1 | | the Industrial Project Fund. All
deposits and expenditures of | 2 | | the Industrial Project Fund shall be made
under the direction | 3 | | of the Department and in accordance with its rules and
| 4 | | regulations. Expenditures shall be limited to salaries and | 5 | | wages paid to
the persons with visual disabilities performing | 6 | | the work and for necessary
supplies, expenses and equipment | 7 | | required to facilitate and operate such
training and | 8 | | employment, and for the benefit, special comfort, pleasure,
| 9 | | amusement and rehabilitation of all persons with visual | 10 | | disabilities
receiving services from the Department.
| 11 | | No bank or savings and loan association shall receive | 12 | | public funds as
permitted by this Section, unless it has | 13 | | complied with the requirements
established under Section 6 of | 14 | | the Public Funds Investment Act.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 88-172.)".
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