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Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that rates and minimum mandated wage increases for homemaker services shall be, at minimum, a rate of $23.40 per hour beginning July 1, 2020 to sustain a minimum wage of $14 per hour, and a rate of $24.96 per hour beginning July 1, 2021 to sustain a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Provides that rates in State fiscal year 2023 and every State fiscal year thereafter shall be no lower than the rates in effect on July 1, 2021. Requires providers of in-home services to certify to the Department on Aging that they remain in compliance with the mandated wage increase for direct service workers. Provides that fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, paid time off and payment for training, health insurance, travel, or transportation shall not be reduced in relation to the rate increases described in the amendatory Act. Effective July 1, 2020.

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Anna Moeller (D)*,  Jonathan Carroll (D),  Kelly Cassidy (D),  Deborah Conroy (D),  Robyn Gabel (D),  Edgar González (D),  Will Guzzardi (D),  Mike Halpin (D),  Lisa Hernandez (D),  Frances Hurley (D),  Lindsey LaPointe (D),  Camille Lilly (D),  Theresa Mah (D),  Natalie Manley (D),  Joyce Mason (D),  Michelle Mussman (D),  Aarón Ortíz (D),  Jonathan Pizer (D),  Chris Welch (D),  Maurice West (D),  Kathleen Willis (D),  Sam Yingling (D), 

Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee (on 06/23/2020)

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