Full Text of SB2188 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 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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