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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State employment.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 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
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| 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 11-6, 11-7, 11-9,
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| 20 | 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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| 1 | cause but not convicted thereon shall be disqualified from
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| 2 | 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
shall | ||||||
| 13 | 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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| 26 | systems to existing eligible lists in accordance with their | ||||||
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| 1 | 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
of Central | ||||||
| 5 | Management Services and unless there are less than 3 Illinois
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| 6 | 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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