Bill Text: IL HB1490 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan Act. Contains a Purposes Section. Defines terms. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall: develop and implement plans to increase the number of young adult community members employed by State government, including those at supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels; prepare a Young Adult Community State Employment Plan; annually report to the General Assembly each State agency's activities that implement the Plan; and assist State agencies with training programs to meet their affirmative action and equal employment opportunity goals. Provides that each State agency shall implement programs under the Plan to increase the number of young adult community members employed by the State and report annually to the Department its activities that implement the Plan. Creates the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan Advisory Council, consisting of 11 members appointed by the Governor, each of whom shall be a subject matter expert on the young adult community. Provides that members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses from appropriated funds. Includes other provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0338 [HB1490 Detail]

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB1490 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan Act. Contains a Purposes Section. Defines terms. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall: develop and implement plans to increase the number of young adult community members employed by State government, including those at supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels; prepare a Young Adult Community State Employment Plan; annually report to the General Assembly each State agency's activities that implement the Plan; and assist State agencies with training programs to meet their affirmative action and equal employment opportunity goals. Provides that each State agency shall implement programs under the Plan to increase the number of young adult community members employed by the State and report annually to the Department its activities that implement the Plan. Creates the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan Advisory Council, consisting of 11 members appointed by the Governor, each of whom shall be a subject matter expert on the young adult community. Provides that members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses from appropriated funds. Includes other provisions. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Young
Adult Community State Employment Plan Act.
Section 5. Purposes. The purposes of this Act are as
follows:
(a) improve the delivery of State services to Illinois'
young adult community by increasing the number of members of
the young adult community who are State employees and the
number of members of the young adult community who are State
employees serving in supervisory, technical, professional, and
managerial positions;
(b) identify State agencies' staffing needs and
qualification requirements;
(c) track hiring practices and promotions of members of the
young adult community who are employed by State agencies;
(d) increase the number of members of the young adult
community employed by State agencies;
(e) increase the number of members of the young adult
community who are State employees who are promoted;
(f) increase the number of members of the young adult
community who are veterans hired by State agencies;

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(g) assist State agencies to meet their goals established
pursuant to the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan;
and
(h) establish the Young Adult Community State Employment
Plan Advisory Council.
Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Department" means the Department of Central Management
Services.
"State agency" or "agency", whether used in the singular or
plural, means all departments, officers, commissions, boards,
institutions, and bodies politic and corporate of the State.
The term, however, does not mean the judicial branch,
including, without limitation, the several courts of the State,
the offices of the clerk of the supreme court and the clerks of
the appellate court, and the Administrative Office of the
Illinois Courts, nor does it mean the legislature or its
committees or commissions.
"Young adult" means a person at least 18 years of age but
not more than 25 years of age.
Section 15. Young Adult Community State Employment Plan.
(a) The Department shall have a full-time position
designated as the Young Adult Community State Employment
Coordinator to monitor compliance with the Young Adult
Community State Employment Plan.

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(b) The Department shall develop and implement plans to
increase the number of members of the young adult community
employed by State agencies and the number of members of the
young adult community employed by State agencies at
supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels.
(c) The Department shall prepare and revise annually a
Young Adult Community State Employment Plan in consultation
with individuals and organizations knowledgeable on this
subject and with the Young Adult Community State Employment
Plan Advisory Council. The Department shall report to the
General Assembly by February 1 of each year, beginning with
February 1, 2016, each State agency's activities that implement
the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan.
Section 20. State agency affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity goals.
(a) Each State agency shall implement strategies and
programs in accordance with the Young Adult Community State
Employment Plan to increase the number of young adult community
members employed by that State agency and the number of young
adult community members employed by that State agency at
supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels.
(b) Each State agency shall report annually to the
Department and the Department of Human Rights, in a format
prescribed by the Department, all of the agency's activities in
implementing the Young Adult Community State Employment Plan.

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Each agency's annual report shall include: reports or
information related to the agency's young adult community
employment strategies and programs that the agency has received
from the Department, the Department of Human Rights, or the
Auditor General, pursuant to their periodic review
responsibilities; findings made by the Governor in his or her
report to the General Assembly; assessments of service needs
based upon the agency's service populations; information on the
agency's studies and monitoring success concerning the number
of young adult community members employed by the agency at the
supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels
and any increases in those categories from the prior year; and
information concerning the agency's young adult community
employment budget allocations.
(c) The Department shall assist State agencies required to
establish preparation and promotion training programs under
subsection (H) of Section 7-105 of the Illinois Human Rights
Act for failure to meet their affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity goals. The Department shall survey
State agencies to identify effective existing training
programs and shall serve as a resource to other State agencies.
The Department shall assist agencies in the development and
modification of training programs to enable them to meet their
affirmative action and equal employment opportunity goals and
shall provide information regarding other existing training
and educational resources, such as the Upward Mobility Program,

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the Illinois Institute for Training and Development, the
Central Management Services Training Center, Executive
Recruitment Internships, and Graduate Public Service
Internships.
Section 25. Young Adult Community State Employment Plan
Advisory Council.
(a) The Young Adult Community State Employment Plan
Advisory Council is created, consisting of 11 members, each of
whom shall be a subject matter expert on the young adult
community, appointed by the Governor.
(b) All members of the Young Adult Community State
Employment Plan Advisory Council shall serve without
compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and
necessary expenses from funds appropriated for that purpose.
(c) The Young Adult Community State Employment Plan
Advisory Council shall examine: (1) the prevalence and impact
of members of the young adult community employed by State
government; (2) the barriers faced by members of the young
adult community who seek employment or promotional
opportunities in State government; and (3) possible incentives
that could be offered to foster the employment of and the
promotion of members of the young adult community in State
government.
(d) The Council shall meet quarterly to provide
consultation to State agencies and the Young Adult Community

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State Employment Coordinator.
(e) The Young Adult Community State Employment Plan
Advisory Council shall receive administrative support from the
Department of Central Management Services and shall issue an
annual report of its activities each year on or before December
1, beginning with December 1, 2016.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.