Bill Text: IL HB0749 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sanctions against TANF recipients.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0749 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0749-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0749 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/4-21
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sanctions against TANF recipients.
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A BILL FOR
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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 4-21 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/4-21)
Sec. 4-21. Sanctions.
(a) The The Illinois Department shall, by rule, establish a
system of sanctions for persons who fail to cooperate, without
good cause, with employment and training programs or other
programs under this Article or Article IXA or who fail to
cooperate with child support programs under this Article,
Article X, or Title IV of the federal Social Security Act. The
sanctions may discontinue all or part of the cash grant
provided under this Article. The sanctions may be time limited
or continue until the person cooperates in the program. The
sanctions may be progressive in that a second, third, or
further sanction may be progressively more severe or last
longer.
(b) The Illinois Department shall, by rule, define what
constitutes failure to cooperate and what constitutes good
cause which would excuse that failure.
(Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)