Bill Text: IL SB0147 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Personnel Code. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services must, within 10 calendar days after the end of each month, post on its Internet website a list showing the total number of those taking competitive examinations for employment during that month and receiving a "superior", "A", or otherwise designated highest test result, together with a breakdown of that total number categorizing the number of applicants receiving that highest grade by race as follows: African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, Caucasian, and Other. Provides that the list shall include only numbers and shall not identify individuals by name.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB0147 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB0147-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 147
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 147 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State | ||||||
| 5 | Employment Application Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Definition. In this Act: | ||||||
| 7 | "Application for State employment" means a written or | ||||||
| 8 | electronic form submitted by an applicant who is seeking | ||||||
| 9 | employment with a State agency. | ||||||
| 10 | "Violent offense" means an offense that is a violent crime | ||||||
| 11 | as defined in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. | ||||||
| 12 | "State agency" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section | ||||||
| 13 | 1-7 of the Illinois State Auditing Act.
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| 14 | Section 10. State employment application; required | ||||||
| 15 | question. Subject to the exception set out in Section 20 of | ||||||
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| 1 | this Act, an application for State employment may not contain | ||||||
| 2 | any question as to whether the applicant was convicted of or | ||||||
| 3 | placed on supervision for a non-violent criminal offense but | ||||||
| 4 | must contain a question as to whether the applicant for State | ||||||
| 5 | employment has ever been convicted of a violent offense that is | ||||||
| 6 | classified as a felony.
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| 7 | Section 15. Criminal background checks permitted. Nothing | ||||||
| 8 | in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a State agency from | ||||||
| 9 | conducting a criminal background check of an applicant for | ||||||
| 10 | State employment.
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| 11 | Section 20. Application of federal or State law. If a | ||||||
| 12 | federal or State law disqualifies a person convicted of certain | ||||||
| 13 | offenses from holding a position, an application for that | ||||||
| 14 | position may inquire as to whether the applicant has been | ||||||
| 15 | convicted of a disqualifying offense. If an applicant is | ||||||
| 16 | applying for a position of peace officer as defined in Section | ||||||
| 17 | 2-13 of the Criminal Code of 1961, an application for that | ||||||
| 18 | position may inquire as to whether the applicant has been | ||||||
| 19 | convicted of a disqualifying offense.
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| 20 | Section 25. Refusal to hire for conviction of a criminal | ||||||
| 21 | offense. Nothing in this Act prohibits a decision to refuse to | ||||||
| 22 | hire on the basis that the applicant has been convicted of a | ||||||
| 23 | criminal offense.
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| 1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 2 | becoming law.".
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