Illinois Administrative Code › Title 14 - COMMERCE › Part 680 - ILLINOIS WORKS JOBS PROGRAM ACT › Subpart A - ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS › Section 680.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to this Part.
"Act" means the Illinois Works Jobs Program
				  Act
[30 ILCS 559 /Art. 20].
"Agency" means each officer, board, commission, and
				  agency created by the Constitution, whether in the executive, legislative, or
				  judicial branch of State government, but other than the circuit court; each
				  officer, department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority,
				  university, and body politic and corporate of the State; each administrative
				  unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government that is created by or
				  pursuant to statute, other than units of local government and their officers,
				  school districts, and boards of election commissioners; and each administrative
				  unit or corporate outgrowth of these entities and as may be created by
				  executive order of the Governor.
[5 ILCS
				  100/1-20]
"Applicant" means a person, business, public or private
				  corporation, partnership, individual, union, committee, club, unincorporated
				  association, or other organization or group of individuals, or other legal
				  entity corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or joint venture
				  that applies for a grant or contract from appropriated capital funds to
				  finance, in whole or in part, a public works project.
"Apprentice" means a participant in an apprenticeship
				  program approved by and registered with the United States Department of Labor's
				  Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training.
[30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Apprenticeship Program" means an apprenticeship and
				  training program approved by and registered with the United States Department
				  of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training.
[30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Appropriated Capital Funds" means moneys appropriated by the
				  General Assembly from either a fund holding State of Illinois bonds proceeds or
				  any other fund that receives and holds public funds for use in funding capital
				  programs and projects. "Appropriated capital funds" are those appropriations
				  designated as capital appropriations in the Governor's Office of Management and
				  Budget document entitled "Enacted Budget - Enacted Appropriations by Line
				  Item", produced for each Fiscal Year and posted on the GOMB website at
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/budget/Pages/BudgetBooks.aspx
.
"Bid Credit" means a virtual dollar for a contractor
				  or subcontractor to use toward future bids on contracts with the State for
				  public works projects.
[30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Community-based Organization" means a nonprofit
				  organization, including an accredited public college or university,
industry associations, chambers of commerce, local workforce areas, community
				  colleges, technical schools and school districts
, selected by the
				  Department to participate in the Illinois Works Preapprenticeship Program. To
				  qualify as a "community-based organization", the organization must demonstrate
				  the following:
the ability to effectively serve diverse and
				  underrepresented populations, including by providing employment services to
				  those populations;
knowledge of the construction and building
				  trades;
the ability to recruit, prescreen, and provide
				  preapprenticeship training to prepare workers for employment in the
				  construction and building trades; and
a plan to provide the following:
preparatory classes;
workplace readiness skills, such as resume
				  preparation and interviewing techniques;
strategies for overcoming barriers to entry and
				  completion of an apprenticeship program; and
any prerequisites for acceptance into an
				  apprenticeship program.
[30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Contractor" means a person, corporation,
				  partnership, limited liability company, or joint venture entering into a
				  contract to construct a public work,
whether the contract is entered
				  directly with an agency or indirectly with a grantee using appropriated capital
				  funds to pay for the contract. [30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Department" means the Department of Commerce and
				  Economic Opportunity.
[30 ILCS
				  559/20-10]
"Estimated Total Project Cost" means a good faith
				  approximation of the costs of an entire project being paid for in whole or in
				  part by appropriated capital funds to construct a public work. Operational
				  costs are not included in the calculation of estimated total project
				  costs.
"GATA" means the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act
				  [30 ILCS 708].
"Grant" means a grant award issued under the Illinois Works
				  Jobs Program Act. [30 ILCS 559]
"Grantee" means the recipient of a grant award from an agency
				  paid from appropriated capital funds for the purpose of funding a public works
				  project.
"Labor Hours" means the total hours for workers who
				  are receiving an hourly wage and who are directly employed for the public works
				  project. "Labor hours" includes hours performed by workers employed by the
				  contractor and subcontractors on the public works project. "Labor hours" does
				  not include hours worked by the forepersons, superintendents, owners, and
				  workers who are not subject to prevailing wage requirements.
[30 ILCS
				  559/2-10]
"Minorities" means minority persons as defined in the
				  Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities
				  Act
[30 ILCS 575]
.
[30 ILCS 559/2-10]
"NOFO" or Notice of Funding Opportunity means an agency's
				  formally issued announcement of the availability of State, federal or federal
				  pass-through funding through one of its financial assistance programs. A NOFO
				  will provide eligibility and evaluation criteria, funding
				  preferences/priorities, the submission deadline, and information on how to
				  obtain an application for the funding opportunity, among other
				  information.
"Participant" is an individual enrolled in a
				  Preapprenticeship Program.
"Preapprenticeship Program" is a program funded under the
				  Illinois Works Jobs Program Act that has a documented partnership or
				  relationship with employers (including union and non-union contractors) and
				  trade unions, and is designed to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in a
				  registered apprenticeship program.
"Public works" means all projects, contracted or
				  funded by the State or any agency of the State, in whole or in part, from
				  appropriated capital funds
(as defined in this section)
, that
				  constitute public works under the Prevailing Wage Act
[820 ILCS 130].
				  [30 ILCS 559/2-10]
"Project" means the activities established by the agency and
				  set forth in the Grant Agreement or contract that are funded, in whole or in
				  part, by appropriated State funds.
"State" means the State of Illinois.
"Stipend" is a sum of money fixed by the Department and paid
				  to a participant in a preapprenticeship program in accordance with the
				  participant's performance in the program. The stipend is to be used for living
				  expenses while the participant is enrolled in the program.
"Subcontractor" means a person, corporation,
				  partnership, limited liability company, or joint venture that has contracted
				  with the contractor to perform all or part of the work to construct a public
				  work by a contractor.
[30 ILCS 559/2-10]
"Underrepresented Populations" means populations
				  identified by the Department that historically have had barriers to entry or
				  advancement in the workforce. "Underrepresented populations" includes, but is
				  not limited to, minorities, women, and veterans.
[30 ILCS
				  559/2-10]