Bill Text: IL HB2987 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Personnel Code. Provides that State agencies, when hiring for internships and student assistant positions, shall give preference to a qualified applicant who is, or has been, a dependent child in foster care, a homeless youth, or a formerly incarcerated youth. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-18 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0141 [HB2987 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB2987-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 100-0141 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State | ||||
Agency Student Worker Opportunity Act.
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Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||
"Court-involved youth" means an individual who was | ||||
committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice | ||||
or a county juvenile detention center and has been released | ||||
from that facility or discharged from custody. | ||||
"Homeless youth" means an individual up to 21 years of age, | ||||
who has been verified as a homeless child or youth, as defined | ||||
under the Federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. | ||||
"Qualified applicant" means an individual who: (1) is 21 | ||||
years of age or younger; (2) is qualified for the internship or | ||||
student worker position; and (3) is or has been a dependent | ||||
child in foster care, a homeless youth, or a court-involved | ||||
youth. | ||||
"State agency" means all boards,
commissions, agencies, | ||||
institutions, authorities, bodies politic and corporate
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State created by or pursuant to the constitution or statute, of | ||||
the
executive branch of State government.
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Section 10. Internships and student workers; transmit | ||
information. | ||
(a) Whenever a State agency has a job opening for an intern | ||
or a student worker, that State agency shall notify the | ||
Department of Human Services, the Department of Juvenile | ||
Justice, and the Department of Children and Family Services and | ||
document that notification. | ||
(b) The Department of Human Services, the Department of | ||
Juvenile Justice, and the Department of Children and Family | ||
Services shall take steps to notify qualified applicants of | ||
each internship or student worker job opening for which a | ||
notification is received under subsection (a) and shall | ||
document those steps.
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