Full Text of SB3222 97th General Assembly
SB3222 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 SB3222 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Linda Holmes SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 20 ILCS 415/9 | from Ch. 127, par. 63b109 |
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Amends the Personnel Code. Deletes a paragraph requiring the Director of the Department of Central Management Services to conduct research and planning regarding the total manpower needs of all offices, departments, agencies, boards, and commissions of the executive branch. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Personnel Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 9 as follows:
| 6 | | (20 ILCS 415/9) (from Ch. 127, par. 63b109)
| 7 | | Sec. 9. Director, powers and duties. The Director, as | 8 | | executive
head of the Department, shall direct and supervise | 9 | | all its
administrative and technical activities. In addition to | 10 | | the duties
imposed upon him elsewhere in this law, it shall be | 11 | | his duty:
| 12 | | (1) To apply and carry out this law and the rules adopted
| 13 | | thereunder.
| 14 | | (2) To attend meetings of the Commission.
| 15 | | (3) To establish and maintain a roster of all employees | 16 | | subject to
this Act, in which there shall be set forth, as to | 17 | | each employee, the
class, title, pay, status, and other | 18 | | pertinent data.
| 19 | | (4) To appoint, subject to the provisions of this Act, such
| 20 | | employees of the Department and such experts and special | 21 | | assistants as
may be necessary to carry out effectively this | 22 | | law.
| 23 | | (5) Subject to such exemptions or modifications as may be |
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| 1 | | necessary
to assure the continuity of federal contributions in | 2 | | those agencies
supported in whole or in part by federal funds, | 3 | | to make appointments to
vacancies; to approve all written | 4 | | charges seeking discharge, demotion,
or other disciplinary | 5 | | measures provided in this Act and to approve
transfers of | 6 | | employees from one geographical area to another in the
State, | 7 | | in offices, positions or places of employment covered by this
| 8 | | Act, after consultation with the operating unit.
| 9 | | (6) To formulate and administer service wide policies and | 10 | | programs
for the improvement of employee effectiveness, | 11 | | including training,
safety, health, incentive recognition, | 12 | | counseling, welfare and employee
relations. The Department | 13 | | shall formulate and administer recruitment
plans and testing of | 14 | | potential employees for agencies having direct
contact with | 15 | | significant numbers of non-English speaking or otherwise
| 16 | | culturally distinct persons. The Department shall require each | 17 | | State agency
to annually assess the need for employees with | 18 | | appropriate bilingual
capabilities to serve the significant | 19 | | numbers of non-English speaking or
culturally distinct | 20 | | persons. The Department shall develop a uniform
procedure for | 21 | | assessing an agency's need for employees with appropriate
| 22 | | bilingual capabilities. Agencies shall establish occupational | 23 | | titles or
designate positions as "bilingual option" for persons | 24 | | having sufficient
linguistic ability or cultural knowledge to | 25 | | be able to render effective
service to such persons. The | 26 | | Department shall ensure that any such option
is exercised |
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| 1 | | according to the agency's needs assessment and the
requirements | 2 | | of this Code. The Department shall make annual reports of the
| 3 | | needs assessment of each agency and the number of positions | 4 | | calling for
non-English linguistic ability to whom vacancy | 5 | | postings were sent, and the
number filled by each agency. Such | 6 | | policies and programs shall be subject
to approval by the | 7 | | Governor. Such policies, program reports and needs
assessment | 8 | | reports shall be filed with the General Assembly
by January 1 | 9 | | of each year and shall be available to the public.
| 10 | | The Department shall include within the report required | 11 | | above
the number of persons receiving the bilingual pay | 12 | | supplement established by
Section 8a.2 of this Code. The report | 13 | | shall provide the number of persons
receiving the bilingual pay | 14 | | supplement for languages other than English and for
signing. | 15 | | The report shall also indicate the number of persons, by the
| 16 | | categories of Hispanic and non-Hispanic, who are receiving the | 17 | | bilingual pay
supplement for language skills other than | 18 | | signing, in a language other than
English.
| 19 | | (7) To conduct negotiations affecting pay, hours of work, | 20 | | or other
working conditions of employees subject to this Act.
| 21 | | (8) To make continuing studies to improve the efficiency of | 22 | | State
services to the residents of Illinois, including but not | 23 | | limited to those
who are non-English speaking or culturally | 24 | | distinct, and to report his
findings and recommendations to the | 25 | | Commission and the Governor.
| 26 | | (9) To investigate from time to time the operation and |
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| 1 | | effect of
this law and the rules made thereunder and to report | 2 | | his findings and
recommendations to the Commission and to the
| 3 | | Governor.
| 4 | | (10) To make an annual report regarding the work of the | 5 | | Department,
and such special reports as he may consider | 6 | | desirable, to the Commission
and to the Governor, or as the | 7 | | Governor or Commission may request.
| 8 | | (11) (Blank). To conduct research and planning regarding | 9 | | the total manpower
needs of all offices, including the | 10 | | Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, State Treasurer, | 11 | | State Comptroller, State Superintendent of
Education, and | 12 | | Attorney General, and of all departments, agencies,
boards, and | 13 | | commissions of the executive branch, except state-supported
| 14 | | colleges and universities, and for that purpose to prescribe | 15 | | forms for
the reporting of such personnel information as the | 16 | | department may
request both for positions covered by this Act | 17 | | and for those exempt in
whole or in part.
| 18 | | (12) To prepare and publish a semi-annual statement showing | 19 | | the
number of employees exempt and non-exempt from merit | 20 | | selection in each
department. This report shall be in addition | 21 | | to other information on
merit selection maintained for public | 22 | | information under existing law.
| 23 | | (13) To authorize in every department or agency subject to
| 24 | | Jurisdiction C the use of flexible hours positions. A flexible | 25 | | hours
position is one that does not require an ordinary work | 26 | | schedule as
determined by the Department and includes but is |
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| 1 | | not limited to: 1) a
part time job of 20 hours or more per week, | 2 | | 2) a job which is shared by
2 employees or a compressed work | 3 | | week consisting of an ordinary number
of working hours | 4 | | performed on fewer than the number of days ordinarily
required | 5 | | to perform that job. The Department may define flexible time
to | 6 | | include other types of jobs that are defined above.
| 7 | | The Director and the director of each department or agency | 8 | | shall
together establish goals for flexible hours positions to | 9 | | be available in
every department or agency.
| 10 | | The Department shall give technical assistance to | 11 | | departments and
agencies in achieving their goals, and shall | 12 | | report to the Governor and
the General Assembly each year on | 13 | | the progress of each department and
agency.
| 14 | | When a goal of 10% of the positions in a department or | 15 | | agency being
available on a flexible hours basis has been | 16 | | reached, the Department
shall evaluate the effectiveness and | 17 | | efficiency of the program and
determine whether to expand the | 18 | | number of positions available for
flexible hours to 20%.
| 19 | | When a goal of 20% of the positions in a department or | 20 | | agency being
available on a flexible hours basis has been | 21 | | reached, the Department
shall evaluate the effectiveness and | 22 | | efficiency of the program and
determine whether to expand the | 23 | | number of positions available for
flexible hours.
| 24 | | Each department shall develop a plan for implementation of | 25 | | flexible
work requirements designed to reduce the need for day | 26 | | care of employees'
children outside the home. Each department |
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| 1 | | shall submit a report of its
plan to the Department of Central | 2 | | Management Services and the General
Assembly. This report shall | 3 | | be submitted biennially by March 1, with the
first report due | 4 | | March 1, 1993.
| 5 | | (14) To perform any other lawful acts which he may consider
| 6 | | necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes and provisions | 7 | | of this
law.
| 8 | | The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall | 9 | | be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, | 10 | | the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of | 11 | | Representatives and the President, the Minority
Leader and the | 12 | | Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research
Unit, as | 13 | | required by Section 3.1 of "An Act to revise the law in | 14 | | relation
to the General Assembly", approved February 25, 1874, | 15 | | as amended, and
filing such additional copies with the State | 16 | | Government Report Distribution
Center for the General Assembly | 17 | | as is required under paragraph (t) of
Section 7 of the State | 18 | | Library Act.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 86-1004; 87-552; 87-1050.)
| 20 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 | | becoming law.
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