Bill Text: IL SB3521 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Veteran, Youth, and Young Adult Conservation Jobs Act. Creates the Illinois Young Adult Recreation Corps for the purpose of making grants to local sponsors to provide wages to young adults operating and instructing in conservation or recreational programs. Provides that local sponsors who can provide necessary facilities, materials, and management for summer conservation or recreational activities within the community may apply to the Department of Natural Resources for a grant under the Act for the purpose of hiring managing supervisors and eligible young adults for conservation or recreational programs. Provides that the Illinois Young Adult Recreation Corps shall be limited to citizens of this State who, at the time of enrollment, are unemployed, are 18 through 25 years of age, and who have skills that can be used in the summer conservation or recreational program. Provides that the Department shall adopt reasonable rules pertaining to the administration of the Illinois Young Adult Recreation Corps. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3521 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB3521-Amended.html

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Sen. Mattie Hunter

Filed: 3/31/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3521
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3521 as follows:
on page 1, lines 5 through 6, by replacing "4, and 6" with "4,
6, and 9"; and
on page 2, line 18, by replacing "summer" with "summer"; and
on page 4, line 5, after the period, by inserting "Persons
employed through the Illinois Young Adult Recreation Corps
shall not perform work in State parks."; and
on page 4, line 10, by deleting "summer"; and
on page 4, line 21, by deleting "summer"; and
on page 5, line 14, after the period, by inserting "These rules
shall prohibit the use of Illinois Young Adult Recreation Corps

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employees in a manner that displaces or replaces regular
employees and shall prohibit any activity that impairs or is
inconsistent with an existing collective bargaining agreement
or with the collective bargaining rights of employees. Illinois
Young Adult Recreation Corps employees shall not be assigned
work within the scope of bargaining unit work without the
written consent of the exclusive bargaining representative.";
and
on page 6, immediately below line 2, by inserting the
following:
"(525 ILCS 50/9)
Sec. 9. Illinois Veteran Recreation Corps. With respect to
the Illinois Veteran Recreation Corps:
(a) Purpose. The Illinois Veteran Recreation Corps is
established for the purpose of making grants to local sponsors
to provide wages to veterans of any age operating and
instructing in conservation or recreational programs. Such
programs shall provide conservation or recreational
opportunities and shall include, but are not limited to, the
coordination and teaching of natural resource conservation and
management, physical activities, or learning activities
directly related to natural resource conservation management
or recreation. Such programs may charge user fees, but such
fees shall be designed to promote as much community involvement

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as possible, as determined by the Department.
(b) Application. Local sponsors who can provide necessary
facilities, materials, and management for summer conservation
or recreational activities within the community and who desire
a grant under this Act for the purpose of hiring managing
supervisors as necessary and eligible veterans for such
conservation or recreational programs may make application to
the Department. Applications shall be evaluated on the basis of
program content, location, need, local commitment of
resources, and consistency with the purposes of this Act.
(c) Enrollment. The Illinois Veteran Recreation Corps
shall be limited to citizens of this State who at the time of
enrollment are veterans of any age and are unemployed and who
have skills that can be utilized in the summer conservation or
recreational program. Preference may be given to veterans with
a disability.
The ratio of veterans employee enrollees to a managing
supervisor must not be less than 10 to 1 for any local sponsor
with a total number of veterans employee enrollees of 10 or
more. Any local sponsor program with a total number of veteran
employee enrollees of less than 10 must be limited to one
managing supervisor. Veterans who are unemployed shall be given
preference for employment as managing supervisors.
The local sponsors shall make public notification of the
availability of jobs for eligible veterans in the Illinois
Veteran Recreation Corps by the means of newspapers, electronic

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media, educational facilities, units of local government, and
Department of Employment Security offices. Application for
employment shall be made directly to the local sponsor.
The Department shall adopt reasonable rules pertaining to
the administration of the Illinois Veteran Recreation Corps.
(d) Terms of employment. The enrollment period for any
successful applicant of the program shall not be longer than 12
6 total months. Once enrolled in the program, each enrollee
shall receive a reasonable wage as set by the Department and
shall work hours as required by the conservation or recreation
program but not in excess of a maximum number of hours as
determined by the Department, except that an enrollee working
as a managing supervisor shall receive a higher wage than an
enrollee working in any other capacity on the conservation or
recreation program. Enrollees shall be employees of the local
sponsor and not contractual hires for the purpose of employment
taxes, except that enrollees shall not be classified as
employees of the State or the local sponsor for purposes of
contributions to the State Employees' Retirement System of
Illinois or any other public employee retirement system.
(Source: P.A. 97-738, eff. 7-5-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)".