Full Text of SB1639 101st General Assembly
SB1639sam001 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Laura Fine Filed: 3/26/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1639
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1639 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 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; |
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| 1 | | test of character; test of
physical fitness; test of | 2 | | psychological fitness. No person with a record of
misdemeanor | 3 | | convictions except those under Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-7, | 4 | | 11-9,
11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-30, 11-35, 12-2, | 5 | | 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1,
24-5, 25-1, 28-3, | 6 | | 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, and 32-8, | 7 | | subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3, and
| 8 | | sub-sections 1, 6 and 8 of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of | 9 | | 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or
arrested for any cause | 10 | | but not convicted thereon shall be disqualified from
taking | 11 | | such examinations or subsequent appointment, unless the person | 12 | | is
attempting to qualify for a position which would give him | 13 | | the powers of a
peace officer, in which case the person's | 14 | | conviction or arrest record may
be considered as a factor in | 15 | | determining the person's fitness for the
position. The | 16 | | eligibility conditions specified for the position of
Assistant | 17 | | Director of Healthcare and Family Services in the Department of | 18 | | Healthcare and Family Services in Section
5-230 of the | 19 | | Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS
5/5-230) shall be | 20 | | applied to that position in addition to other
standards, tests | 21 | | or criteria established by the Director. All examinations
shall | 22 | | be announced publicly at least 2 weeks in advance of the date | 23 | | of the
examinations and may be advertised through the press, | 24 | | radio and other
media. The Director may, however, in his | 25 | | discretion, continue to receive
applications and examine | 26 | | candidates long enough to assure a sufficient
number of |
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| 1 | | eligibles to meet the needs of the service and may add the | 2 | | names
of successful candidates to existing eligible lists in | 3 | | accordance with
their respective ratings.
| 4 | | The Director may, in his discretion, accept the results of | 5 | | competitive
examinations conducted by any merit system | 6 | | established by federal law or by
the law of any State, and may | 7 | | compile eligible lists therefrom or may add
the names of | 8 | | successful candidates in examinations conducted by those merit
| 9 | | systems to existing eligible lists in accordance with their | 10 | | respective
ratings. For any position filled prior to January 1, | 11 | | 2020, no No person who is a non-resident of the State of | 12 | | Illinois may be
appointed from those eligible lists, however, | 13 | | unless the requirement that
applicants be residents of the | 14 | | State of Illinois is waived by the Director
of Central | 15 | | Management Services and unless there are less than 3 Illinois
| 16 | | residents available
for appointment from the appropriate | 17 | | eligible list. For any position filled after December 31, 2019, | 18 | | no person may be appointed to a position based in the State of | 19 | | Illinois from any eligible list unless that person becomes a | 20 | | resident of the State of Illinois within 3 months from the | 21 | | person's first day of employment in that position or unless the | 22 | | residency requirement is waived for just cause by the Director
| 23 | | of Central Management Services. The results of the
examinations | 24 | | conducted by other merit systems may not be used unless they
| 25 | | are comparable in difficulty and comprehensiveness to | 26 | | examinations
conducted by the Department of Central Management |
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| 1 | | Services
for similar positions. Special
linguistic options may | 2 | | also be established where deemed appropriate.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
| 4 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 | | becoming law.".
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