|
Public Act 097-0352
|
| HB3550 Enrolled | LRB097 10822 KMW 51292 b |
|
|
AN ACT concerning local government.
|
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
|
represented in the General Assembly:
|
Section 5. The Fire Department Promotion Act is amended by |
changing Section 35 as follows:
|
(50 ILCS 742/35)
|
Sec. 35. Written examinations.
|
(a) The appointing authority may not condition eligibility |
to take the
written examination on the candidate's score on any |
of the previous components
of the examination. The written |
examination for a particular rank shall consist
of matters |
relating to the duties regularly performed by persons holding |
that
rank within the department. The examination shall be based |
only on the contents
of written materials that the appointing |
authority has identified and made
readily available to |
potential examinees at least 90 days before the
examination is |
administered. The test questions and material must be pertinent
|
to the particular rank for which the examination is being |
given. The written
examination shall be administered after the |
determination and posting of the
seniority list, ascertained |
merit points, and subjective evaluation scores. The
written |
examination shall be administered, the test materials opened, |
and the
results scored and tabulated.
|
|
(b) Written examinations shall be graded at the examination |
site on the day
of the examination immediately upon completion |
of the test in front of the
observers if such observers are |
appointed under Section 25, or if the tests
are graded offsite |
by a bona fide testing agency, the observers shall witness
the |
sealing and the shipping of the tests for grading and the |
subsequent
opening of the scores upon the return from the |
testing agency. Every
examinee shall have the right (i) to |
obtain his or her score on the
examination on the day of the |
examination or upon the day of its return from
the testing |
agency (or the appointing authority shall require the testing
|
agency to mail the individual scores to any address submitted |
by the
candidates on the day of the examination); and (ii) to |
review the answers to
the examination that the examiners |
consider correct. The appointing
authority may hold a review |
session after the examination for the purpose
of gathering |
feedback on the examination from the candidates. The review |
sessions shall be at no cost to the candidates.
|
(c) Sample written examinations may be examined by the |
appointing authority
and members of the department, but no |
person in the department or the
appointing authority (including |
the Chief, Civil Service Commissioners,
Board of Fire and |
Police Commissioners, Board of Fire Commissioners, or
Fire |
Protection District Board of Trustees and other appointed or |
elected
officials) may see or examine the specific questions on |
the actual written
examination before the examination is |
|
administered. If a sample
examination is used, actual test |
questions shall not be included. It is a
violation of this Act |
for any member of the department or the appointing
authority to |
obtain or divulge foreknowledge of the contents of the written
|
examination before it is administered.
|
(d) Each department shall maintain reading and study |
materials for its
current written examination and the reading |
list for the last 2 written
examinations or for a period of 5 |
years, whichever is less, for each rank and
shall make these |
materials available and accessible at each duty station.
|
(e) The provisions of this Section do not apply to the |
extent that they are
in conflict with provisions otherwise |
agreed to in a collective bargaining
agreement.
|
(Source: P.A. 93-411, eff. 8-4-03.)
|
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
|