2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 330 - VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS › 330 ILCS 25/ - Veterans' Employment Act.

(330 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 201)
Sec. 1. 
		Short title. 
		This Act may be cited as the Veterans' Employment Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-12.)
(330 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 202)
Sec. 2. 
		
		The General Assembly hereby declares that it is the purpose
of this Act to increase the receptivity of employers in each community to
hiring veterans, through contacts with veterans occupying key positions
in business and industry; to persuade local institutions to make more resources
available to the solution of veterans' problems; to encourage and help Vietnam
veterans to make full use of and to support all volunteer activities available
to them, especially veterans service organizations; and to encourage and
help Vietnam veterans to make full use of all federal, State and community
activities and benefits available to them.
(Source: P.A. 83-283.)
(330 ILCS 25/3) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 203)
Sec. 3. Definition. For the purposes of this Act, "Director" means the
Director of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity or
its successor agency.
(Source: P.A. 94-99, eff. 1-1-06.)
(330 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 204)
Sec. 4. 
		
		The services to be offered under this Act shall be provided
to, but not necessarily be limited to, veterans of the United States armed
forces who served during the American involvement in Vietnam.
(Source: P.A. 83-283.)
(330 ILCS 25/5) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 205)
Sec. 5. Service centers.
(a) The Director shall designate multipurpose service
centers for veterans operated by community nonprofit
agencies or organizations.  To the greatest extent possible, the
Director shall rely on such agencies or organizations whose major
emphasis has been to provide social services.
(b) The Director shall search for such nonprofit agencies or
organizations to carry out the programs created under this Act.
(c) The Director shall designate the agencies or organizations to carry
out such programs.
(d) Subject to appropriation, the Director shall begin to provide the
necessary funds to the nonprofit agencies
or organizations to set up and begin the operation of the multipurpose
service centers.  Thereafter the Director shall provide the funds
appropriated for grants to the centers as the costs of the centers are
incurred.
(e) The Director shall, with the advice of the staff of the centers,
promulgate rules and regulations to implement this Act.  Such rules and
regulations shall include eligibility of persons for job training
programs, the level of stipends for the job training programs, and a
sliding fee scale for the service programs.
(f) In performing his duties pursuant to this Act, the Director shall
consult and cooperate with such State agencies as may be appropriate, including but not limited to the Department of
Employment Security and the Department of
Veterans' Affairs
to ensure that there is no
duplication of services.
(Source: P.A. 94-99, eff. 1-1-06.)
(330 ILCS 25/6) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 206)
Sec. 6. (a) The multipurpose service centers shall, after consulting
and in cooperation with the Illinois Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, develop job counseling and placement services by
cooperating with federal, State and local governmental agencies and private
employers.  The services shall include:
(1) counseling veterans with respect to appropriate     job opportunities;
(2) identifying community needs and seeking funding     for new public and private sector jobs in relation to this Act;
(3) providing veterans with training, skills and     referral services to help them to become gainfully employed and independent;
(4) developing plans to include more veterans in     existing training and placement programs; and
(5) referring veterans to agencies which provide     information and assistance with respect to health care, financial matters, education, nutrition and legal problems.
(b) To the extent possible, the centers shall serve
surrounding rural areas through a rural outreach effort.
(c) To the extent possible, supervisory, technical and
administrative positions relating to the multipurpose service
programs shall be filled by veterans.
(d) The director of each center shall submit an annual report
to the Director.  The report shall include evaluations
of the effectiveness of the job training, placement and service
programs to veterans including the number of
persons trained, the number of persons placed in employment,
follow-up data on such persons, the number of persons served
by the various service programs, and estimates of the cost effectiveness of the
various components of the center.
The Director shall also require quarterly reports and shall by rule specify
the information to be included in the quarterly reports.
(e) The director of each center may accept, use and
dispose of contributions of money, services and property
for the purposes of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-99, eff. 1-1-06.)
(330 ILCS 25/7) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 207)
Sec. 7. (a) The sponsoring nonprofit agency or organization shall
consult and cooperate with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
						
to ensure that there is no duplication of services, and shall cooperate
with federal, State and local agencies to coordinate the multiservice
programs established under this Act.
(b) The agency or organization and the communities
served by programs established under this Act shall
provide a total of not less than 5% of the cost of the
operation of the centers to supplement monies appropriated
to implement and continue this Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-99, eff. 1-1-06.)