Bill Text: IL SB0655 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Veterans' Employment Representative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the qualifications and duties of a Veterans' Employment Representative.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-11 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0655 Detail]

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0655 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
330 ILCS 50/1 from Ch. 48, par. 186a
Amends the Veterans' Employment Representative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the qualifications and duties of a Veterans' Employment Representative.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning military service.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Veterans' Employment Representative Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(330 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 186a)
Sec. 1. Veteran services; representative. The The
Department of Employment Security shall assign at least one
full time Veterans' Employment Representative, defined by
title and classification under the Personnel Code of Illinois,
to each full service office of the employment service, to work
exclusively in job counseling, training, and placement of
veterans. Preference for these positions shall be given to
qualified persons who have been members of the armed forces of
the United States in times of hostilities with a foreign
country. Any candidate for these positions shall be deemed to
have met and satisfied examination admission requirements if
the candidate served in the armed forces during times of
hostilities with a foreign country and was honorably
discharged therefrom due to a combat-related disability. The
holder of such a position shall be administratively
responsible to the local office manager, and his or her first
line responsibility is functional supervision of all local

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office services to veterans. He or she may also be delegated
line supervision of veteran units, assistant local veterans'
employment representative, or veteran aid. Individualized
veterans' services such as application taking, counseling, job
referral, or training will continue to be provided to veterans
on a priority basis by all local office staff.
(Source: P.A. 98-107, eff. 7-23-13.)