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90_SB0561enr

      20 ILCS 3975/4.5
          Amends the Illinois  Human  Resource  Investment  Council
      Act.   Requires  the  Human  Resource  Investment  Council to
      recommend a comprehensive set of  workforce  preparation  and
      development  goals  and  implementation  strategies  for  the
      development  and coordination of the human resource system to
      the General Assembly and the Governor, rather than  to  adopt
      such  goals  and  strategies.  Includes the General Assembly,
      along with  the  Governor,  in  various  recommendations  and
      advisory actions by the Council.  Makes other changes.
                                                     SRS90S0026KSsa
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend the Illinois Human Resource Investment
 2    Council Act by changing Section 4.5.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section   1.   The  Illinois  Human  Resource  Investment
 6    Council Act is amended by changing Section 4.5 as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 3975/4.5)
 8        Sec. 4.5.  Duties.
 9        (a)  The Council shall recommend  adopt  a  comprehensive
10    set  of  workforce  preparation  and  development  goals  and
11    implementation    strategies    for   the   development   and
12    coordination of the human resource system within the State to
13    the General Assembly and the Governor.    The  Council  shall
14    annually  review  these  priority  goals  and  strategies and
15    recommend revisions shall revise them as  may  be  necessary.
16    Any  goals  or strategies adopted by the Council prior to the
17    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be deemed
18    temporarily adopted until such time as the  General  Assembly
19    ratifies  such  goals  and  strategies  with the passage of a
20    joint resolution.  Any such  temporarily  adopted  goals  and
21    strategies  that  are not ratified by the General Assembly by
22    joint resolution within 7 months after the effective date  of
23    this amendatory Act of 1997 are deemed revoked.
24        (b)  The  Council  shall  advise the General Assembly and
25    the  Governor  on  the   development,   implementation,   and
26    coordination  of  State  and  local  standards  and  measures
27    relating  to applicable federal human resource programs.  For
28    these purposes, applicable federal  human  resource  programs
29    means  any  program from among the following that the General
30    Assembly, the Governor, and the  head  of  the  State  agency
31    responsible  for  the  administration  of the program jointly
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 1    agree  to  include  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Human
 2    Resource Investment Council:  the  Job  Training  Partnership
 3    Act,  the  Carl  D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
 4    Education Act, the National  and  Community  Service  Act  of
 5    1990,  the Adult Education Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, part F
 6    of Title IV of the Social Security Act,  and  the  employment
 7    program  established  under Section 6(d)(4) of the Food Stamp
 8    Act of 1977 or subsequent federal programs  or  block  grants
 9    designed for education and employment related services.
10        (c)  The  Council  shall  be  responsible for the overall
11    identification of human investment needs and  priorities  for
12    workforce preparation in the State and shall recommend to the
13    General Assembly and the Governor the goals for meeting these
14    needs.   The  Council  shall  coordinate the establishment of
15    advisory   statewide   performance   goals   for    workforce
16    preparation  programs  as  well  as a statewide framework for
17    workforce preparation program evaluation.
18        (d)  The Council shall continuously monitor and  evaluate
19    new  federal  and  State legislative proposals and shall make
20    recommendations  concerning  their   implementation.    Newly
21    enacted  laws  shall  be  evaluated  and recommendations made
22    concerning their integration within  the  existing  workforce
23    preparation system.
24        (e)  The  Council  shall  advocate  the  establishment of
25    standard   terms   to   promote   understanding,    planning,
26    coordination,   and   evaluation   of  workforce  preparation
27    programs and services at the State and federal levels.
28        (f)  Other  duties   of   the   Council   shall   include
29    recommending to relevant agencies and to the General Assembly
30    and  the  Governor,  with respect to applicable Federal human
31    resource programs and others, the provision of  services  and
32    the  use  of  funds  and  resources for workforce preparation
33    services.
34        (g)  Nothing in this Act Section shall  be  construed  to
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 1    require  or  allow  the  Council  to  assume or supersede the
 2    statutory authority granted  to,  or  impose  any  duties  or
 3    requirements  on,  the State Board of Education, the Board of
 4    Higher Education, the Illinois Community College  Board,  any
 5    State agencies created under the Civil Administrative Code of
 6    Illinois, or any local education agencies.
 7        (h)  The  Human  Resource Investment Council shall assume
 8    the duties of  a  State  job  training  coordinating  council
 9    pursuant  to Sections 121 and 317 of the federal Job Training
10    Partnership Act.
11        (i)  The Human Resource  Investment  Council  is  further
12    charged  with  the  task  of deliberating the desirability of
13    establishing itself as a body independent of any other  State
14    agency  or  organization.   Issues  to be considered in those
15    deliberations include, but are  not  limited  to,  the  costs
16    associated with establishing a new organization, staffing and
17    other  personnel  issues, and consolidation of other councils
18    into the Human Resource  Investment  Council.    The  Council
19    shall   issue   a   report   on   its  discussions  and  make
20    recommendations to the General Assembly and the  Governor  on
21    whether and how to proceed.
22    (Source: P.A. 89-382, eff. 8-18-95.)

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