Bill Text: IL SB3232 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Creates a 5-year demonstration project within the Department of Human Services to provide an intensive workforce training program for entry level workers and a multi-generational healthy family initiative. Provides that the demonstration project shall be privately funded and shall be operated and maintained by a non-profit, community-based entity that shall provide wages earned by participants enrolled in the workforce training program as well as support services to families enrolled in the multi-generational healthy family initiative. Limits the number of participants in the demonstration to 500 and provides that participants shall qualify to have whatever financial assistance they receive from their participation in the demonstration excluded from consideration for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of assistance under the Code. Requires the selected community-based entity to comply with all applicable State and federal requirements and to develop and implement a research component to determine the effectiveness of the demonstration project in promoting and instilling self-sufficiency through its intensive workforce training program and multi-generational healthy family initiative. Contains provisions on reporting requirements and other matters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-10 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0806 [SB3232 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3232-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 1-7 and by adding Section 12-4.51 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/1-7) (from Ch. 23, par. 1-7)
Sec. 1-7. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for
assistance under this Code, the Illinois Department, County
Departments, and local governmental units shall exclude from
consideration restitution payments, including all income and
resources derived therefrom, made to persons of Japanese or
Aleutian ancestry pursuant to the federal Civil Liberties Act
of 1988 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island Restitution Act,
P.L. 100-383.
(b) For purposes of any program or form of assistance where
a person's income or assets are considered in determining
eligibility or level of assistance, whether under this Code or
another authority, neither the State of Illinois nor any entity
or person administering a program wholly or partially financed
by the State of Illinois or any of its political subdivisions
shall include restitution payments, including all income and
resources derived therefrom, made pursuant to the federal Civil
Liberties Act of 1988 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island

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Restitution Act, P.L. 100-383, in the calculation of income or
assets for determining eligibility or level of assistance.
(c) For purposes of determining eligibility for or the
amount of assistance under this Code, except for the
determination of eligibility for payments or programs under the
TANF employment, education, and training programs and the Food
Stamp Employment and Training Program, the Illinois
Department, County Departments, and local governmental units
shall exclude from consideration any financial assistance
received under any student aid program administered by an
agency of this State or the federal government, by a person who
is enrolled as a full-time or part-time student of any public
or private university, college, or community college in this
State.
(d) For purposes of determining eligibility for or the
amount of assistance under this Code, except for the
determination of eligibility for payments or programs under the
TANF employment, education, and training programs and the SNAP
Employment and Training Program, the Illinois Department,
County Departments, and local governmental units shall exclude
from consideration, for a period of 36 months, any financial
assistance, including wages, that is provided to a person who
is enrolled in a demonstration project that is not funded with
general revenue funds and that is intended as a bridge to
self-sufficiency by offering (i) intensive workforce support
and training and (ii) support services for new and expectant

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parents that are intended to foster multi-generational healthy
families as described in Section 12-4.51.
(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)
(305 ILCS 5/12-4.51 new)
Sec. 12-4.51. Workforce training and healthy families
demonstration project.
(a) Subject to the availability of funds provided for this
purpose by the federal government, local philanthropic or
charitable sources, or other private sources, there is created
a 5-year demonstration project within the Department of Human
Services to provide an intensive workforce training program for
entry level workers and a multi-generational healthy family
initiative. No general revenue funds may be used to fund the
demonstration project created under this Section. The
demonstration project shall be implemented no later than 6
months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
100th General Assembly and shall terminate 5 years after the
initial date of implementation. The demonstration project
shall be operated and maintained by a non-profit,
community-based entity that shall provide the majority of the
wages earned by participants enrolled in the workforce training
program as well as support services to families, including new
and expectant parents, enrolled in the multi-generational
healthy family initiative. The total number of participants in
the 5-year demonstration project at any one time shall not

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exceed 500. Participants enrolled in the workforce training
program or the multi-generational healthy family initiative
shall qualify to have whatever financial assistance they
receive from their participation excluded from consideration
for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of
assistance under this Code as provided in subsection (d) of
Section 1-7. The selected entity must immediately notify the
Department of Human Services or the Department of Healthcare
and Family Services whenever a participant enrolled in the
workforce training program or the multi-generational healthy
family initiative leaves the demonstration project and ceases
to participate in any of the programs under the demonstration
making the participant ineligible to receive an exemption as
provided in subsection (d) of Section 1-7.
(b) The entity selected to operate and maintain the
demonstration project shall be a non-profit, community-based
entity in good standing with the State that is located in a
county with a population of less than 3,000,000. The selected
entity must comply with all applicable State and federal
requirements and must develop and implement a research
component to determine the effectiveness of the demonstration
project in promoting and instilling self-sufficiency through
its intensive workforce training program and
multi-generational healthy family initiative. The State shall
not fund the research component outlined in the Section or any
program under the demonstration project.

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(c) Beginning one year after the initial implementation
date of the demonstration project, and each year thereafter for
the duration of the demonstration, the selected entity shall
submit a report to the Department of Human Services, the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and the General
Assembly that details the progress and effectiveness of the
demonstration project and the demonstration's impact on
instilling the value of self-sufficiency in participants. The
4th annual report shall also provide policy recommendations on
best practices for and continued research on facilitating
bridges to self-sufficiency. The 4th annual report may also
include a recommendation on making the demonstration project
permanent upon completion of the demonstration project period.
The reports to the General Assembly shall be filed with the
Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the
Senate in electronic form only, in the manner that the Clerk
and the Secretary shall direct.