Full Text of HB4991 96th General Assembly
HB4991eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning State employment.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| 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
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| 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 11-6, 11-7, 11-9,
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| 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, | 21 |
| 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1,
24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, | 22 |
| 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, 32-8 and
sub-sections 1, 6 and 8 of | 23 |
| Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or
arrested for any |
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| cause but not convicted thereon shall be disqualified from
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| taking such examinations or subsequent appointment, unless the | 3 |
| person is
attempting to qualify for a position which would give | 4 |
| him the powers of a
peace officer, in which case the person's | 5 |
| conviction or arrest record may
be considered as a factor in | 6 |
| determining the person's fitness for the
position. The | 7 |
| eligibility conditions specified for the position of
Assistant | 8 |
| Director of Healthcare and Family Services in the Department of | 9 |
| Healthcare and Family Services in Section
5-230 of the | 10 |
| Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS
5/5-230) shall be | 11 |
| applied to that position in addition to other
standards, tests | 12 |
| or criteria established by the Director. All examinations
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| be announced publicly at least 2 weeks in advance of the date | 14 |
| of the
examinations and may be advertised through the press, | 15 |
| radio and other
media. The Director may, however, in his | 16 |
| discretion, continue to receive
applications and examine | 17 |
| candidates long enough to assure a sufficient
number of | 18 |
| eligibles to meet the needs of the service and may add the | 19 |
| names
of successful candidates to existing eligible lists in | 20 |
| accordance with
their respective ratings. | 21 |
| The Director may, in his discretion, accept the results of | 22 |
| competitive
examinations conducted by any merit system | 23 |
| established by federal law or by
the law of any State, and may | 24 |
| compile eligible lists therefrom or may add
the names of | 25 |
| successful candidates in examinations conducted by those merit
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| systems to existing eligible lists in accordance with their |
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| respective
ratings. No person who is a non-resident of the | 2 |
| State of Illinois may be
appointed from those eligible lists, | 3 |
| however, unless the requirement that
applicants be residents of | 4 |
| the State of Illinois is waived by the Director
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| Management Services and unless there are less than 3 Illinois
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| residents available
for appointment from the appropriate | 7 |
| eligible list. The results of the
examinations conducted by | 8 |
| other merit systems may not be used unless they
are comparable | 9 |
| in difficulty and comprehensiveness to examinations
conducted | 10 |
| by the Department of Central Management Services
for similar | 11 |
| positions. Special
linguistic options may also be established | 12 |
| where deemed appropriate. | 13 |
| Beginning with the 6th month after the month during which | 14 |
| this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly becomes law, | 15 |
| within 10 calendar days after the end of each month, the | 16 |
| Department must post on its Internet website a list showing the | 17 |
| total number of those taking competitive examinations for | 18 |
| employment during that month and receiving a "superior", "A", | 19 |
| or otherwise designated highest test result, together with a | 20 |
| breakdown of that total number categorizing the number of | 21 |
| applicants receiving that highest grade by race as follows: | 22 |
| African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, | 23 |
| Caucasian, and Other. The list shall include only numbers and | 24 |
| shall not identify individuals by name. | 25 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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