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92_SB0619 LRB9207619DJmg 1 AN ACT in relation to public aid. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by 5 changing Section 4-1.12 as follows: 6 (305 ILCS 5/4-1.12) 7 Sec. 4-1.12. Five year limitation. 8 (a) No assistance unit shall be eligible for a cash 9 grant under this Article if it includes an adult who has 10 received cash assistance as an adult for 60 months, whether 11 or not consecutive, after the effective date of this 12 amendatory Act of 1997. The Illinois Department may exempt 13 individual assistance units from the 60-month limitation or 14 determine circumstances under which a month or months would 15 not count towards the 60-month limitation even though the 16 assistance unit did receive cash assistance under this 17 Article. 18 (b) In addition to months that the Illinois Department 19 determines by rule not to count toward the 60-month 20 limitation under subsection (a), the Illinois Department 21 shall not count months in which the adult receiving 22 assistance under this Article is the primary caregiver for a 23 disabled family member, as defined by the Illinois Department 24 in rules, if the demands of that caregiving are inconsistent 25 with sustained employment. In addition, families that meet 26 the definition in the preceding sentence that have exhausted 27 their eligibility for cash assistance under the 60-month 28 limitation shall be eligible for cash assistance without 29 regard to the 60-month limitation. 30 (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)