Full Text of HB3779 97th General Assembly
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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 8b.1 as follows:
| 6 | | (20 ILCS 415/8b.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 63b108b.1)
| 7 | | Sec. 8b.1. For open competitive
examinations to test the | 8 | | relative fitness of
applicants for the respective positions.
| 9 | | Tests shall be designed to eliminate those who are not | 10 | | qualified for
entrance into or promotion within the service, | 11 | | and to discover the relative
fitness of those who are | 12 | | qualified. The Director may use any one of or any
combination | 13 | | of the following examination methods which in his judgment best
| 14 | | serves this end: investigation of education; investigation of | 15 | | experience;
test of cultural knowledge; test of capacity; test | 16 | | of knowledge; test of
manual skill; test of linguistic ability; | 17 | | test of character; test of
physical fitness; test of | 18 | | psychological fitness. No person with a record of
misdemeanor | 19 | | convictions except those under Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-7, | 20 | | 11-9,
11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-30, 11-35, 12-2, | 21 | | 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1,
24-5, 25-1, 28-3, | 22 | | 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, and 32-8, | 23 | | subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3, and
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| 1 | | sub-sections 1, 6 and 8 of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of | 2 | | 1961 or
arrested for any cause but not convicted thereon shall | 3 | | be disqualified from
taking such examinations or subsequent | 4 | | appointment, unless the person is
attempting to qualify for a | 5 | | position which would give him the powers of a
peace officer, in | 6 | | which case the person's conviction or arrest record may
be | 7 | | considered as a factor in determining the person's fitness for | 8 | | the
position. The eligibility conditions specified for the | 9 | | position of
Assistant Director of Healthcare and Family | 10 | | Services in the Department of Healthcare and Family Services in | 11 | | Section
5-230 of the Departments of State Government Law (20 | 12 | | ILCS
5/5-230) shall be applied to that position in addition to | 13 | | other
standards, tests or criteria established by the Director. | 14 | | All examinations
shall be announced publicly at least 2 weeks | 15 | | in advance of the date of the
examinations and may be | 16 | | advertised through the press, radio and other
media. The | 17 | | Director may, however, in his discretion, continue to receive
| 18 | | applications and examine candidates long enough to assure a | 19 | | sufficient
number of eligibles to meet the needs of the service | 20 | | and may add the names
of successful candidates to existing | 21 | | eligible lists in accordance with
their respective ratings.
| 22 | | Notwithstanding any other law, beginning on the effective | 23 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the | 24 | | Director of Central Management Services and the Department of | 25 | | Employment Security shall establish a 5-year pilot program | 26 | | under which the Director of Central Management Services and the |
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| 1 | | Department of Employment Security shall jointly administer the | 2 | | competitive examinations. Under the pilot program, the | 3 | | Director of Central Management Services and the Department of | 4 | | Employment Security shall determine the times and places where | 5 | | the competitive examinations shall be held, provided that the | 6 | | competitive examinations shall be held at one Department of | 7 | | Employment Security office per region at least once each | 8 | | quarter. Each designated Department of Employment Security | 9 | | testing office has the discretion to set the dates on which it | 10 | | shall hold the competitive examinations. By March 1, June 1, | 11 | | September 1, and December 1 of each year, a schedule of the | 12 | | times and places where the competitive examinations shall be | 13 | | held during the following quarter shall be posted on the | 14 | | official websites of the Department of Central Management | 15 | | Services and the Department of Employment Security. | 16 | | The Director may, in his discretion, accept the results of | 17 | | competitive
examinations conducted by any merit system | 18 | | established by federal law or by
the law of any State, and may | 19 | | compile eligible lists therefrom or may add
the names of | 20 | | successful candidates in examinations conducted by those merit
| 21 | | systems to existing eligible lists in accordance with their | 22 | | respective
ratings. No person who is a non-resident of the | 23 | | State of Illinois may be
appointed from those eligible lists, | 24 | | however, unless the requirement that
applicants be residents of | 25 | | the State of Illinois is waived by the Director
of Central | 26 | | Management Services and unless there are less than 3 Illinois
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| 1 | | residents available
for appointment from the appropriate | 2 | | eligible list. The results of the
examinations conducted by | 3 | | other merit systems may not be used unless they
are comparable | 4 | | in difficulty and comprehensiveness to examinations
conducted | 5 | | by the Department of Central Management Services
for similar | 6 | | positions. Special
linguistic options may also be established | 7 | | where deemed appropriate.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11 .)
| 9 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 10 | | 1, 2013.
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