HB3062sam001 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Mary Edly-Allen

Filed: 4/29/2025

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3062

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3062 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Universities Civil Service Act is amended by changing Section 36f as follows:

(110 ILCS 70/36f) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 38b5)

Sec. 36f. Examinations.

(a) All examinations given under the University System shall be open to all applicants who are citizens of or residents in the State of Illinois and who can qualify by training and experience for the position for which application is made.

(1) From the date an employer begins a search in earnest for a candidate who is qualified pursuant to this Act and for the first 6 months of the employer's active and continuous search thereafter, the employer shall consider only applicants who are residents of Illinois and shall select a qualified Illinois candidate whenever possible in consideration of the needs of the employer.

(2) No applicant who resides outside of Illinois is eligible for employment within the first 6 months of an employer's active and continuous search. Thereafter, the out-of-state resident's examination may be scored and the out-of-state resident may be added to a register and considered for employment pursuant to this Act. Any candidate appointed to a civil service position pursuant to this subsection (a) shall have 90 days from the successful completion of the candidate's probationary period to establish residence within Illinois or within 60 miles of the campus location at which the candidate is employed.

(3) For classes within the professional, semi-professional, or managerial occupational areas for which a broader recruitment base is typically applied, out-of-state residents may be admitted to the examination and equally considered without regard to paragraphs (1) and (2). If the Illinois residency requirement is waived, these out-of-state candidates must establish Illinois residency within 180 calendar days after any employment offer or final appointment.

(4) In examinations for technical positions for which no qualified residents of this State are available the residence requirement may be waived.

(5) In examinations for law enforcement personnel, the residence requirement shall be waived.

(b) Examinations may be written; oral; by statement of training and experience; in the form of tests of knowledge, skill, capacity, intellect, or aptitude; or by any other method which, in the judgment of the Merit Board, is reasonable and practical for any particular classification. The examinations shall be practical and shall relate to the classification for which the examination is given. No question in any examination shall relate to political or religious affiliation or racial origins of the examinee.

(c) Different examining procedures may be determined for the examinations in different classifications, but all examinations in the same classification must be uniform. The examination requirement for the initial appointment, entry level position only, of law enforcement personnel may be waived if an applicant has satisfied all the requirements established by the Illinois Police Training Act for appointment of law enforcement officers and if the Merit Board allows for such a waiver by rule. Additional positions, entry level only, may have the examination requirement waived if the occupational standards are regulated by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, as designated by the Merit Board and provided for in adopted rules.

(Source: P.A. 103-287, eff. 1-1-24.)".