Full Text of HB0282 102nd General Assembly
HB0282ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Natalie A. Manley Filed: 3/22/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 282
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 282 on page 3, | 3 | | lines 23 to 24, by replacing " State's Attorney's " with " county | 4 | | officer's "; and | 5 | | on page 4, line 2, by replacing " State's Attorney's " with | 6 | | " county or State officer's "; and | 7 | | on page 9, by replacing lines 4 through 11 with the following:
| 8 | | " (f) In a county with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, and | 9 | | only upon receipt of a written request by the superintendent | 10 | | of the county Veterans Assistance Commission for the county in | 11 | | which the State's Attorney is located, the State's Attorney | 12 | | shall have the discretionary authority to render an opinion, | 13 | | without fee or reward, upon any question of law relating to a | 14 | | matter in which the county Veterans Assistance Commission may | 15 | | be concerned. The State's Attorney shall have the discretion |
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| 1 | | to grant or decline such a request. "; and | 2 | | on page 14, immediately below line 24, by inserting the | 3 | | following: | 4 | | "Section 10. The Military Veterans Assistance Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
| 6 | | (330 ILCS 45/10) (from Ch. 23, par. 3090)
| 7 | | Sec. 10.
The executive powers of the commission shall be | 8 | | vested in a
superintendent elected by the commission from | 9 | | among those who served in
the armed forces of the United | 10 | | States. The superintendent,
designated Superintendent of | 11 | | Veterans Assistance of the county, shall,
under the direction | 12 | | of the commission, have charge of and maintain an
office in the | 13 | | county building or other central location, to be used solely
| 14 | | by the commission for carrying on its assistance work. The | 15 | | county shall
provide the office and furnish all necessary | 16 | | supplies, including telephone,
printing, stationery and | 17 | | postage therefor.
| 18 | | The county board shall, in any county where a Veterans | 19 | | Assistance
Commission is organized, in addition to sums | 20 | | appropriated for assistance and
emergency assistance purposes | 21 | | under this Act, appropriate such additional
sums, upon | 22 | | recommendation of the Veterans Assistance Commission and as
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| 1 | | approved by the county board, to properly compensate the | 2 | | officers and
employees required to administer such assistance. | 3 | | Such county board
approval shall be based upon recognized and | 4 | | established salary guidelines
developed by the county and used | 5 | | by the county to compensate county
employees. If the county | 6 | | does not have established employee salary
guidelines, the | 7 | | county board shall provide funds to the commission to
| 8 | | compensate the superintendent and his employees in a just | 9 | | manner. The
county board shall also provide funds to the | 10 | | commission to reimburse the
superintendent, officers, | 11 | | delegates and employees for certain expenses
which are | 12 | | approved by the commission. The superintendent and other
| 13 | | employees shall be employees of the Veterans Assistance | 14 | | Commission, and no
provision in this Section or elsewhere in | 15 | | this Act shall be construed to
mean that they are employees of | 16 | | the county.
| 17 | | Superintendents, subject to rules formulated by the | 18 | | commission, shall select,
as far as possible, secretaries and | 19 | | other employees from among honorably
discharged military | 20 | | veterans as defined in Section 2, or their surviving
spouses.
| 21 | | In a county with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the | 22 | | superintendent may, in conformance with subsection (f) of | 23 | | Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code, request legal assistance | 24 | | from the State's Attorney serving the county in which the | 25 | | Veterans Assistance Commission is located. | 26 | | Superintendents of all counties subject to this Act, when |
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| 1 | | required by the
commission, shall give bond in the sum of | 2 | | $2,000 for the faithful performance
of their duties.
| 3 | | All persons elected or selected to fill positions provided | 4 | | for in this
Section shall be exempt from the operation and | 5 | | provisions of any civil service
act or laws of this State, and | 6 | | the secretary of the commission shall be
appointed by the | 7 | | superintendent. However, if "The Illinois Public Aid Code",
as | 8 | | amended, becomes applicable in any county, the Department of
| 9 | | Human Services may exercise the powers therein designated in | 10 | | relation to
employees
engaged in the administration of | 11 | | assistance under this Act.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".
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