Bill Text: IL SB3214 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that each State agency shall implement an equal opportunity employment interview initiative in order to increase State employment opportunities provided to women, minority persons, and persons under specified employment plans. Provides that each State agency shall assign, if possible, the hiring of employees to persons that are representative of specified persons when an applicant that is representative of those persons applies for employment with the State agency. Allows such persons to be included in the interview procedure. Provides reporting requirements. Provides that the provisions shall not apply to State employment for job titles for which political considerations may be taken into account when hiring personnel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3214 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3214-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3214 Introduced 2/10/2020, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 405/405-123 new
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that each State agency shall implement an equal opportunity employment interview initiative in order to increase State employment opportunities provided to women, minority persons, and persons under specified employment plans. Provides that each State agency shall assign, if possible, the hiring of employees to persons that are representative of specified persons when an applicant that is representative of those persons applies for employment with the State agency. Allows such persons to be included in the interview procedure. Provides reporting requirements. Provides that the provisions shall not apply to State employment for job titles for which political considerations may be taken into account when hiring personnel.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning the Department of Central Management
Services.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
adding Section 405-123 as follows:
(20 ILCS 405/405-123 new)
Sec. 405-123. State agency equal opportunity employment
interview initiative.
(a) Each State agency shall implement an equal opportunity
employment interview initiative in order to increase State
employment opportunities provided to women, minority persons,
and persons to which the goals of the following programs apply:
(i) the African American Employment Plan; (ii) the Hispanic
Employment Plan; (iii) the Asian American Employment Plan; (iv)
the Native American Employment Plan; (v) the requirements
concerning employment of bilingual persons; and (vi) the
employees with a disability employment plan.
(b) Each State agency shall assign, if possible, the hiring
of employees to persons that are representative of the persons
specified under subsection (a) when an applicant that is
representative of those persons applies for employment with the

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State agency. Such person shall be included in the interview
procedure when the applicant is a person specified under
subsection (a), and the interview being conducted meets the
following criteria:
(1) the hiring State agency implements an interview
panel for the position consisting of 3 or more hiring
personnel; or
(2) the hiring State agency implements a multi-round
interview process consisting of 2 or more rounds for the
position.
(c) Each State agency shall submit an annual report to the
Governor and the General Assembly concerning their actions
under this Section. The report shall include the following:
(1) the number of applicants that were interviewed that
are representative of the persons and employment plans
specified under subsection (a);
(2) the number of equal opportunity interview
initiative interviews in which the hiring personnel and the
applicant were both representative of the persons or
employment plans specified under subsection (a); and
(3) the number of applicants that met the criteria of
the persons and employment plans specified under
subsection (a) that were hired by a State agency under an
equal opportunity employment interview initiative.
(d) The requirements of this Section shall not apply to
State employment for job titles that are classified as

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Rutan-exempt, or for which political considerations may be
taken into account when hiring personnel.