Full Text of SB0813 099th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning agriculture.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The County Cooperative Extension Law is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 2b as follows:
| 6 | | (505 ILCS 45/2b) (from Ch. 5, par. 242b)
| 7 | | Sec. 2b. The Cooperative Extension Service of the | 8 | | University of
Illinois may shall establish a Rural Transition | 9 | | Program to be operated in
cooperation with the Department of | 10 | | Commerce and Economic Opportunity to provide
assessments, | 11 | | career counseling, on-the-job training, tuition | 12 | | reimbursements,
classroom
training, financial management | 13 | | training, work experience opportunities,
job search skills, | 14 | | job placement, youth programs, and
support service to farmers | 15 | | and their families, agriculture-related
employees, other rural | 16 | | residents, and small rural businesses who are
being forced out | 17 | | of farming or other primary means of employment or
whose | 18 | | standard of living or employment has been
reduced because of | 19 | | prevailing economic conditions in the
agricultural or rural | 20 | | economy.
Eligible farmers and their families shall include | 21 | | those who can
demonstrate proof of financial stress, proof of | 22 | | foreclosure, proof of
bankruptcy, proof of inability to
secure | 23 | | needed capital, proof of voluntary foreclosure or proof of |
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| 1 | | income
eligibility for assistance programs administered by the | 2 | | Department of Human
Services (acting as successor to the | 3 | | Department of
Public Aid under the Department of Human Services | 4 | | Act). Eligible
agriculture related employees shall mean tenant
| 5 | | farmers or other farm employees and employees of businesses | 6 | | related to
agricultural production who are facing | 7 | | displacement, unemployment or
underemployment due to a closure | 8 | | or reduction in operation of such business
or farm due to poor | 9 | | economic conditions that prevail in the agricultural or rural
| 10 | | economy. Other eligible rural residents shall include those | 11 | | residing in
rural areas whose employment or standard of living | 12 | | has been reduced due to
the poor economic conditions that | 13 | | prevail in the agricultural or rural economy.
Eligible small | 14 | | rural businesses shall include those existing or new
businesses | 15 | | established and operating in rural areas that lack access to | 16 | | other
sources of
services provided by this Section. In carrying
| 17 | | out the provisions of this Section,
the Cooperative
Extension | 18 | | Service may enter into agreements with the Department of | 19 | | Commerce
and Community Affairs, community colleges, vocational | 20 | | schools, and any
other State or local private or public agency | 21 | | or entity deemed necessary.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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