Public Act 90-0528 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0528
SB561 Enrolled SRS90S0026KSsa
AN ACT to amend the Illinois Human Resource Investment
Council Act by changing Section 4.5.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. The Illinois Human Resource Investment
Council Act is amended by changing Section 4.5 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3975/4.5)
Sec. 4.5. Duties.
(a) The Council shall recommend adopt a comprehensive
set of workforce preparation and development goals and
implementation strategies for the development and
coordination of the human resource system within the State to
the General Assembly and the Governor. The Council shall
annually review these priority goals and strategies and
recommend revisions shall revise them as may be necessary.
Any goals or strategies adopted by the Council prior to the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be deemed
temporarily adopted until such time as the General Assembly
ratifies such goals and strategies with the passage of a
joint resolution. Any such temporarily adopted goals and
strategies that are not ratified by the General Assembly by
joint resolution within 7 months after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1997 are deemed revoked.
(b) The Council shall advise the General Assembly and
the Governor on the development, implementation, and
coordination of State and local standards and measures
relating to applicable federal human resource programs. For
these purposes, applicable federal human resource programs
means any program from among the following that the General
Assembly, the Governor, and the head of the State agency
responsible for the administration of the program jointly
agree to include within the jurisdiction of the Human
Resource Investment Council: the Job Training Partnership
Act, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act, the National and Community Service Act of
1990, the Adult Education Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, part F
of Title IV of the Social Security Act, and the employment
program established under Section 6(d)(4) of the Food Stamp
Act of 1977 or subsequent federal programs or block grants
designed for education and employment related services.
(c) The Council shall be responsible for the overall
identification of human investment needs and priorities for
workforce preparation in the State and shall recommend to the
General Assembly and the Governor the goals for meeting these
needs. The Council shall coordinate the establishment of
advisory statewide performance goals for workforce
preparation programs as well as a statewide framework for
workforce preparation program evaluation.
(d) The Council shall continuously monitor and evaluate
new federal and State legislative proposals and shall make
recommendations concerning their implementation. Newly
enacted laws shall be evaluated and recommendations made
concerning their integration within the existing workforce
preparation system.
(e) The Council shall advocate the establishment of
standard terms to promote understanding, planning,
coordination, and evaluation of workforce preparation
programs and services at the State and federal levels.
(f) Other duties of the Council shall include
recommending to relevant agencies and to the General Assembly
and the Governor, with respect to applicable Federal human
resource programs and others, the provision of services and
the use of funds and resources for workforce preparation
services.
(g) Nothing in this Act Section shall be construed to
require or allow the Council to assume or supersede the
statutory authority granted to, or impose any duties or
requirements on, the State Board of Education, the Board of
Higher Education, the Illinois Community College Board, any
State agencies created under the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois, or any local education agencies.
(h) The Human Resource Investment Council shall assume
the duties of a State job training coordinating council
pursuant to Sections 121 and 317 of the federal Job Training
Partnership Act.
(i) The Human Resource Investment Council is further
charged with the task of deliberating the desirability of
establishing itself as a body independent of any other State
agency or organization. Issues to be considered in those
deliberations include, but are not limited to, the costs
associated with establishing a new organization, staffing and
other personnel issues, and consolidation of other councils
into the Human Resource Investment Council. The Council
shall issue a report on its discussions and make
recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor on
whether and how to proceed.
(Source: P.A. 89-382, eff. 8-18-95.)