Bill Text: IL HB1041 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State policy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1041 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB1041-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1041
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1041 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 802 as follows:
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| 6 | (820 ILCS 405/802) (from Ch. 48, par. 472)
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| 7 | Sec. 802.
Appointment of referees and providing legal | ||||||
| 8 | services in disputed
claims.
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| 9 | A. To hear and decide disputed claims, the Director shall | ||||||
| 10 | obtain an
adequate number of impartial Referees selected in | ||||||
| 11 | accordance with the
provisions of the "Personnel Code" enacted | ||||||
| 12 | by the Sixty-ninth General
Assembly. No person shall | ||||||
| 13 | participate on behalf of the Director or the
Board of Review in | ||||||
| 14 | any case in which he is an interested party. The
Director shall | ||||||
| 15 | provide the Board of Review and such Referees with proper
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| 16 | facilities and supplies and with assistants and employees | ||||||
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| 1 | (selected in
accordance with the provisions of the "Personnel | ||||||
| 2 | Code" enacted by the
Sixty-ninth General Assembly) necessary | ||||||
| 3 | for the execution of their
functions.
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| 4 | B. As provided in Section 1700.1, effective January 1, | ||||||
| 5 | 1989, the Director
shall establish a program for providing | ||||||
| 6 | services by licensed attorneys at law
to advise and represent, | ||||||
| 7 | at hearings before the Referee, the Director or the
Director's | ||||||
| 8 | Representative, or the Board of Review, "small employers", as
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| 9 | defined in rules promulgated by the Director, and issued | ||||||
| 10 | pursuant to the
results of the study referred to in Section | ||||||
| 11 | 1700.1, and individuals who
have made a claim for benefits with | ||||||
| 12 | respect to a week of unemployment,
whose claim has been | ||||||
| 13 | disputed, and who are eligible under rules promulgated
by the | ||||||
| 14 | Director which are issued pursuant to the results of the study
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| 15 | referred to in Section 1700.1.
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| 16 | For the period beginning July 1, 1994, and extending | ||||||
| 17 | through June 30,
1996, no legal services shall be provided | ||||||
| 18 | under the program established under
this subsection.
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| 19 | For the period beginning July 1, 1990, and extending | ||||||
| 20 | through June 30,
1991, no legal services shall be provided | ||||||
| 21 | under the program established
pursuant to this subsection.
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| 22 | For all or any part of the period commencing as of the | ||||||
| 23 | first day of the first week for which benefits are no longer | ||||||
| 24 | payable in the State pursuant to the federal Supplemental | ||||||
| 25 | Appropriations Act, 2008, and extending through June 30, 2014, | ||||||
| 26 | the Director may suspend the programs established pursuant to | ||||||
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| 1 | this subsection B if, in the Director's judgment, the | ||||||
| 2 | suspension is necessary to assist in offsetting the loss of | ||||||
| 3 | federal grants attributable to the fact that the benefits are | ||||||
| 4 | no longer payable. In the event of the suspension of a program | ||||||
| 5 | pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, a | ||||||
| 6 | provider of services under the program shall be entitled to | ||||||
| 7 | compensation upon submission of invoices and proof of claim for | ||||||
| 8 | supplies and services provided in compliance with its contract | ||||||
| 9 | under the program, up to and including the date of suspension. | ||||||
| 10 | (Source: P.A. 88-655, eff. 9-16-94; 89-21, eff. 6-6-95.)
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| 11 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 12 | becoming law.".
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