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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1564 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require every applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Provides that such testing shall be in addition to any other testing or application requirements for employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center. Effective immediately. |
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| | HB1564 | | LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental |
| 5 | | Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section |
| 6 | | 4.5 as follows:
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| 7 | | (20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new) |
| 8 | | Sec. 4.5. TABE and physical agility testing for mental |
| 9 | | health technicians. The Department shall require every |
| 10 | | applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician |
| 11 | | trainee at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) |
| 12 | | complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score |
| 13 | | that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at |
| 14 | | a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical |
| 15 | | agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the |
| 16 | | applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile |
| 17 | | walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Such |
| 18 | | testing shall be in addition to any other testing or |
| 19 | | application requirements for employment as a mental health |
| 20 | | technician trainee at a State-operated developmental center.
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| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 22 | | becoming law. |