Full Text of SB1728 99th General Assembly
SB1728eng 99TH 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 | | (20 ILCS 415/19a rep.) | 5 | | Section 5. The Personnel Code is amended by repealing | 6 | | Section 19a. | 7 | | Section 10. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by | 8 | | adding Section 2-106 as follows: | 9 | | (775 ILCS 5/2-106 new) | 10 | | Sec. 2-106. Interagency Committee on Employees with
| 11 | | Disabilities. | 12 | | (A) As used in this Section: | 13 | | "State agency" means all officers, boards, commissions, | 14 | | and agencies created by the Constitution in the executive | 15 | | branch; all officers, departments, boards, commissions, | 16 | | agencies, institutions, authorities, universities, bodies | 17 | | politic and corporate of the State; and administrative units or | 18 | | corporate outgrowths of the State government which are created | 19 | | by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government | 20 | | and their officers, school districts, and boards of election | 21 | | commissioners; all administrative units and corporate | 22 | | outgrowths of the above and as may be created by executive |
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| 1 | | order of the Governor. | 2 | | "State employee" means an employee of a State agency. | 3 | | (B) The Interagency Committee on Employees with
| 4 | | Disabilities, created under repealed Section 19a of the | 5 | | Personnel Code, is continued as set forth in this Section. The | 6 | | Committee is composed of 18 members as follows: the Chairperson | 7 | | of the Civil
Service Commission or his or her designee, the | 8 | | Director of Veterans' Affairs or his or her designee, the
| 9 | | Director of Central Management Services or his or her designee, | 10 | | the Secretary of Human Services or his or her designee, the
| 11 | | Director of Human Rights or his or her designee, the Director | 12 | | of the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities or his or | 13 | | her designee, the Lieutenant Governor or his or her designee, | 14 | | the Attorney General or his or her designee, the Secretary of | 15 | | State or his or her designee, the State Comptroller or his or | 16 | | her designee, the State Treasurer or his or her designee, and 7 | 17 | | State employees with disabilities appointed by and
serving at | 18 | | the pleasure of the Governor. | 19 | | (C) The Director of Human Rights and the Secretary of Human
| 20 | | Services shall serve as
co-chairpersons of the Committee. The | 21 | | Committee shall meet as often as it
deems necessary, but in no | 22 | | case less than 6 times annually at the call of the
| 23 | | co-chairpersons. Notice shall be given to the members in | 24 | | writing in advance of
a scheduled meeting. | 25 | | (D) The Department of Human Rights shall provide | 26 | | administrative support to the Committee. |
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| 1 | | (E) The purposes and functions of the Committee are: (1) to | 2 | | provide a
forum where problems of general concern to State | 3 | | employees with
disabilities can be raised and methods of their | 4 | | resolution can be suggested
to the appropriate State agencies; | 5 | | (2) to provide a
clearinghouse of information for State | 6 | | employees with disabilities by
working with those agencies to | 7 | | develop and retain such information; (3) to
promote affirmative | 8 | | action efforts pertaining to the employment of
persons with | 9 | | disabilities by State agencies; and (4) to recommend, where
| 10 | | appropriate, means of strengthening the affirmative action | 11 | | programs for
employees with disabilities in State agencies. | 12 | | (F) The Committee
shall annually make
a complete report to | 13 | | the General Assembly on the Committee's achievements
and | 14 | | accomplishments. Such report may also include an evaluation by | 15 | | the
Committee of the effectiveness of the hiring and | 16 | | advancement practices in
State government. | 17 | | (G) This amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly is not | 18 | | intended to
disqualify any current member of the Committee from | 19 | | continued membership
on the Committee in accordance with the | 20 | | terms of this Section or the member's
appointment.
| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 22 | | becoming law. |
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