Bill Text: IL SB1290 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that if and only if Senate Bill 1556, as passed by the 97th General Assembly, becomes law, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is amended (i) to prohibit the Governor from designating public employees who are classified as or who hold the title of Civil Engineer V, Civil Engineer VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I, Technical Manager II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager IV, Technical Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty Specialist III, Realty Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V, Technical Advisor I, Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor III, Technical Advisor IV, or Technical Advisor V for exclusion from collective bargaining and (ii) to specify that public employees who are classified as or who hold the employment title of Civil Engineer V, Civil Engineer VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I, Technical Manager II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager IV, Technical Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty Specialist III, Realty Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V, Technical Advisor I, Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor III, Technical Advisor IV, or Technical Advisor V qualify as public employees for purposes of the Act. Effective upon becoming law or on the effective date of Senate Bill 1556 of the 97th General Assembly, whichever is later.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1290 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1290-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1290 Introduced 2/5/2013, by Sen. Andy Manar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 315/3 from Ch. 48, par. 1603
5 ILCS 315/6.1
Provides that if and only if Senate Bill 1556, as passed by the 97th General Assembly, becomes law, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is amended (i) to prohibit the Governor from designating public employees who are classified as or who hold the title of Civil Engineer V, Civil Engineer VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I, Technical Manager II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager IV, Technical Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty Specialist III, Realty Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V, Technical Advisor I, Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor III, Technical Advisor IV, or Technical Advisor V for exclusion from collective bargaining and (ii) to specify that public employees who are classified as or who hold the employment title of Civil Engineer V, Civil Engineer VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I, Technical Manager II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager IV, Technical Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty Specialist III, Realty Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V, Technical Advisor I, Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor III, Technical Advisor IV, or Technical Advisor V qualify as public employees for purposes of the Act. Effective upon becoming law or on the effective date of Senate Bill 1556 of the 97th General Assembly, whichever is later.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. If and only if Senate Bill 1556, as passed by
the 97th General Assembly, becomes law, the Illinois Public
Labor Relations Act is amended by changing Sections 3 and 6.1
as follows:
(5 ILCS 315/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1603)
Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) "Board" means the Illinois Labor Relations Board or,
with respect to a matter over which the jurisdiction of the
Board is assigned to the State Panel or the Local Panel under
Section 5, the panel having jurisdiction over the matter.
(b) "Collective bargaining" means bargaining over terms
and conditions of employment, including hours, wages, and other
conditions of employment, as detailed in Section 7 and which
are not excluded by Section 4.
(c) "Confidential employee" means an employee who, in the
regular course of his or her duties, assists and acts in a
confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine, and
effectuate management policies with regard to labor relations
or who, in the regular course of his or her duties, has

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authorized access to information relating to the effectuation
or review of the employer's collective bargaining policies.
(d) "Craft employees" means skilled journeymen, crafts
persons, and their apprentices and helpers.
(e) "Essential services employees" means those public
employees performing functions so essential that the
interruption or termination of the function will constitute a
clear and present danger to the health and safety of the
persons in the affected community.
(f) "Exclusive representative", except with respect to
non-State fire fighters and paramedics employed by fire
departments and fire protection districts, non-State peace
officers, and peace officers in the Department of State Police,
means the labor organization that has been (i) designated by
the Board as the representative of a majority of public
employees in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with
the procedures contained in this Act, (ii) historically
recognized by the State of Illinois or any political
subdivision of the State before July 1, 1984 (the effective
date of this Act) as the exclusive representative of the
employees in an appropriate bargaining unit, (iii) after July
1, 1984 (the effective date of this Act) recognized by an
employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the labor
organization has been designated as the exclusive
representative by a majority of the employees in an appropriate
bargaining unit; (iv) recognized as the exclusive

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representative of personal care attendants or personal
assistants under Executive Order 2003-8 prior to the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, and
the organization shall be considered to be the exclusive
representative of the personal care attendants or personal
assistants as defined in this Section; or (v) recognized as the
exclusive representative of child and day care home providers,
including licensed and license exempt providers, pursuant to an
election held under Executive Order 2005-1 prior to the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
Assembly, and the organization shall be considered to be the
exclusive representative of the child and day care home
providers as defined in this Section.
With respect to non-State fire fighters and paramedics
employed by fire departments and fire protection districts,
non-State peace officers, and peace officers in the Department
of State Police, "exclusive representative" means the labor
organization that has been (i) designated by the Board as the
representative of a majority of peace officers or fire fighters
in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with the
procedures contained in this Act, (ii) historically recognized
by the State of Illinois or any political subdivision of the
State before January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1985) as the exclusive representative by a
majority of the peace officers or fire fighters in an
appropriate bargaining unit, or (iii) after January 1, 1986

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(the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985) recognized
by an employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the
labor organization has been designated as the exclusive
representative by a majority of the peace officers or fire
fighters in an appropriate bargaining unit.
Where a historical pattern of representation exists for the
workers of a water system that was owned by a public utility,
as defined in Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act, prior
to becoming certified employees of a municipality or
municipalities once the municipality or municipalities have
acquired the water system as authorized in Section 11-124-5 of
the Illinois Municipal Code, the Board shall find the labor
organization that has historically represented the workers to
be the exclusive representative under this Act, and shall find
the unit represented by the exclusive representative to be the
appropriate unit.
(g) "Fair share agreement" means an agreement between the
employer and an employee organization under which all or any of
the employees in a collective bargaining unit are required to
pay their proportionate share of the costs of the collective
bargaining process, contract administration, and pursuing
matters affecting wages, hours, and other conditions of
employment, but not to exceed the amount of dues uniformly
required of members. The amount certified by the exclusive
representative shall not include any fees for contributions
related to the election or support of any candidate for

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political office. Nothing in this subsection (g) shall preclude
an employee from making voluntary political contributions in
conjunction with his or her fair share payment.
(g-1) "Fire fighter" means, for the purposes of this Act
only, any person who has been or is hereafter appointed to a
fire department or fire protection district or employed by a
state university and sworn or commissioned to perform fire
fighter duties or paramedic duties, except that the following
persons are not included: part-time fire fighters, auxiliary,
reserve or voluntary fire fighters, including paid on-call fire
fighters, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of
a fire department or fire protection district who are not
routinely expected to perform fire fighter duties, or elected
officials.
(g-2) "General Assembly of the State of Illinois" means the
legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois,
as provided for under Article IV of the Constitution of the
State of Illinois, and includes but is not limited to the House
of Representatives, the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority
Leader of the Senate, the Joint Committee on Legislative
Support Services and any legislative support services agency
listed in the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of
1984.
(h) "Governing body" means, in the case of the State, the

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State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, the Director
of the Department of Central Management Services, and the
Director of the Department of Labor; the county board in the
case of a county; the corporate authorities in the case of a
municipality; and the appropriate body authorized to provide
for expenditures of its funds in the case of any other unit of
government.
(i) "Labor organization" means any organization in which
public employees participate and that exists for the purpose,
in whole or in part, of dealing with a public employer
concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
employment, including the settlement of grievances.
(j) "Managerial employee" means an individual who is
engaged predominantly in executive and management functions
and is charged with the responsibility of directing the
effectuation of management policies and practices.
(k) "Peace officer" means, for the purposes of this Act
only, any persons who have been or are hereafter appointed to a
police force, department, or agency and sworn or commissioned
to perform police duties, except that the following persons are
not included: part-time police officers, special police
officers, auxiliary police as defined by Section 3.1-30-20 of
the Illinois Municipal Code, night watchmen, "merchant
police", court security officers as defined by Section 3-6012.1
of the Counties Code, temporary employees, traffic guards or
wardens, civilian parking meter and parking facilities

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personnel or other individuals specially appointed to aid or
direct traffic at or near schools or public functions or to aid
in civil defense or disaster, parking enforcement employees who
are not commissioned as peace officers and who are not armed
and who are not routinely expected to effect arrests, parking
lot attendants, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian
employees of a police department who are not routinely expected
to effect arrests, or elected officials.
(l) "Person" includes one or more individuals, labor
organizations, public employees, associations, corporations,
legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy,
receivers, or the State of Illinois or any political
subdivision of the State or governing body, but does not
include the General Assembly of the State of Illinois or any
individual employed by the General Assembly of the State of
Illinois.
(m) "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in
work predominantly intellectual and varied in character rather
than routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work;
involving the consistent exercise of discretion and adjustment
in its performance; of such a character that the output
produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in
relation to a given period of time; and requiring advanced
knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily
acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual
instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a

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hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or
from apprenticeship or from training in the performance of
routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or any employee
who has completed the courses of specialized intellectual
instruction and study prescribed in this subsection (m) and is
performing related work under the supervision of a professional
person to qualify to become a professional employee as defined
in this subsection (m).
(n) "Public employee" or "employee", for the purposes of
this Act, means any individual employed by a public employer,
including (i) interns and residents at public hospitals, (ii)
as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd
General Assembly, but not before, personal care attendants and
personal assistants working under the Home Services Program
under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act,
subject to the limitations set forth in this Act and in the
Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, and (iii) as of the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
Assembly, but not before, child and day care home providers
participating in the child care assistance program under
Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to the
limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of the
Illinois Public Aid Code, , and (iv) beginning on the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any person
employed by a public employer and who is classified as or who

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holds the employment title of Civil Engineer V, Civil Engineer
VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I, Technical Manager
II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager IV, Technical
Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty Specialist III, Realty
Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V, Technical Advisor I,
Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor III, Technical Advisor
IV, or Technical Advisor V, but excluding all of the following:
employees of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois;
elected officials; executive heads of a department; members of
boards or commissions; the Executive Inspectors General; any
special Executive Inspectors General; employees of each Office
of an Executive Inspector General; commissioners and employees
of the Executive Ethics Commission; the Auditor General's
Inspector General; employees of the Office of the Auditor
General's Inspector General; the Legislative Inspector
General; any special Legislative Inspectors General; employees
of the Office of the Legislative Inspector General;
commissioners and employees of the Legislative Ethics
Commission; employees of any agency, board or commission
created by this Act; employees appointed to State positions of
a temporary or emergency nature; all employees of school
districts and higher education institutions except
firefighters and peace officers employed by a state university
and except peace officers employed by a school district in its
own police department in existence on the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly; managerial

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employees; short-term employees; confidential employees;
independent contractors; and supervisors except as provided in
this Act.
Personal care attendants and personal assistants shall not
be considered public employees for any purposes not
specifically provided for in the amendatory Act of the 93rd
General Assembly, including but not limited to, purposes of
vicarious liability in tort and purposes of statutory
retirement or health insurance benefits. Personal care
attendants and personal assistants shall not be covered by the
State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 (5 ILCS 375/).
Child and day care home providers shall not be considered
public employees for any purposes not specifically provided for
in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, including
but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and
purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits.
Child and day care home providers shall not be covered by the
State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
Notwithstanding Section 9, subsection (c), or any other
provisions of this Act, all peace officers above the rank of
captain in municipalities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants
shall be excluded from this Act.
(o) Except as otherwise in subsection (o-5), "public
employer" or "employer" means the State of Illinois; any
political subdivision of the State, unit of local government or
school district; authorities including departments, divisions,

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bureaus, boards, commissions, or other agencies of the
foregoing entities; and any person acting within the scope of
his or her authority, express or implied, on behalf of those
entities in dealing with its employees. As of the effective
date of the amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, but
not before, the State of Illinois shall be considered the
employer of the personal care attendants and personal
assistants working under the Home Services Program under
Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, subject
to the limitations set forth in this Act and in the Disabled
Persons Rehabilitation Act. The State shall not be considered
to be the employer of personal care attendants and personal
assistants for any purposes not specifically provided for in
this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, including but
not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and
purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits.
Personal care attendants and personal assistants shall not be
covered by the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 (5
ILCS 375/). As of the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 94th General Assembly but not before, the State of Illinois
shall be considered the employer of the day and child care home
providers participating in the child care assistance program
under Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to
the limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of
the Illinois Public Aid Code. The State shall not be considered
to be the employer of child and day care home providers for any

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purposes not specifically provided for in this amendatory Act
of the 94th General Assembly, including but not limited to,
purposes of vicarious liability in tort and purposes of
statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. Child and
day care home providers shall not be covered by the State
Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
"Public employer" or "employer" as used in this Act,
however, does not mean and shall not include the General
Assembly of the State of Illinois, the Executive Ethics
Commission, the Offices of the Executive Inspectors General,
the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the
Legislative Inspector General, the Office of the Auditor
General's Inspector General, and educational employers or
employers as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act, except with respect to a state university in its
employment of firefighters and peace officers and except with
respect to a school district in the employment of peace
officers in its own police department in existence on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly. County boards and county sheriffs shall be designated
as joint or co-employers of county peace officers appointed
under the authority of a county sheriff. Nothing in this
subsection (o) shall be construed to prevent the State Panel or
the Local Panel from determining that employers are joint or
co-employers.
(o-5) With respect to wages, fringe benefits, hours,

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holidays, vacations, proficiency examinations, sick leave, and
other conditions of employment, the public employer of public
employees who are court reporters, as defined in the Court
Reporters Act, shall be determined as follows:
(1) For court reporters employed by the Cook County
Judicial Circuit, the chief judge of the Cook County
Circuit Court is the public employer and employer
representative.
(2) For court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th,
19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial
circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those
circuits, acting jointly by majority vote, is the public
employer and employer representative.
(3) For court reporters employed by all other judicial
circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those
circuits, acting jointly by majority vote, is the public
employer and employer representative.
(p) "Security employee" means an employee who is
responsible for the supervision and control of inmates at
correctional facilities. The term also includes other
non-security employees in bargaining units having the majority
of employees being responsible for the supervision and control
of inmates at correctional facilities.
(q) "Short-term employee" means an employee who is employed
for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar
year and who does not have a reasonable assurance that he or

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she will be rehired by the same employer for the same service
in a subsequent calendar year.
(r) "Supervisor" is an employee whose principal work is
substantially different from that of his or her subordinates
and who has authority, in the interest of the employer, to
hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge,
direct, reward, or discipline employees, to adjust their
grievances, or to effectively recommend any of those actions,
if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely routine or
clerical nature, but requires the consistent use of independent
judgment. Except with respect to police employment, the term
"supervisor" includes only those individuals who devote a
preponderance of their employment time to exercising that
authority, State supervisors notwithstanding. In addition, in
determining supervisory status in police employment, rank
shall not be determinative. The Board shall consider, as
evidence of bargaining unit inclusion or exclusion, the common
law enforcement policies and relationships between police
officer ranks and certification under applicable civil service
law, ordinances, personnel codes, or Division 2.1 of Article 10
of the Illinois Municipal Code, but these factors shall not be
the sole or predominant factors considered by the Board in
determining police supervisory status.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph,
in determining supervisory status in fire fighter employment,
no fire fighter shall be excluded as a supervisor who has

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established representation rights under Section 9 of this Act.
Further, in new fire fighter units, employees shall consist of
fire fighters of the rank of company officer and below. If a
company officer otherwise qualifies as a supervisor under the
preceding paragraph, however, he or she shall not be included
in the fire fighter unit. If there is no rank between that of
chief and the highest company officer, the employer may
designate a position on each shift as a Shift Commander, and
the persons occupying those positions shall be supervisors. All
other ranks above that of company officer shall be supervisors.
(s)(1) "Unit" means a class of jobs or positions that are
held by employees whose collective interests may suitably be
represented by a labor organization for collective bargaining.
Except with respect to non-State fire fighters and paramedics
employed by fire departments and fire protection districts,
non-State peace officers, and peace officers in the Department
of State Police, a bargaining unit determined by the Board
shall not include both employees and supervisors, or
supervisors only, except as provided in paragraph (2) of this
subsection (s) and except for bargaining units in existence on
July 1, 1984 (the effective date of this Act). With respect to
non-State fire fighters and paramedics employed by fire
departments and fire protection districts, non-State peace
officers, and peace officers in the Department of State Police,
a bargaining unit determined by the Board shall not include
both supervisors and nonsupervisors, or supervisors only,

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except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (s) and
except for bargaining units in existence on January 1, 1986
(the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985). A
bargaining unit determined by the Board to contain peace
officers shall contain no employees other than peace officers
unless otherwise agreed to by the employer and the labor
organization or labor organizations involved. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, a bargaining unit, including a
historical bargaining unit, containing sworn peace officers of
the Department of Natural Resources (formerly designated the
Department of Conservation) shall contain no employees other
than such sworn peace officers upon the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1990 or upon the expiration date of any
collective bargaining agreement in effect upon the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1990 covering both such sworn
peace officers and other employees.
(2) Notwithstanding the exclusion of supervisors from
bargaining units as provided in paragraph (1) of this
subsection (s), a public employer may agree to permit its
supervisory employees to form bargaining units and may bargain
with those units. This Act shall apply if the public employer
chooses to bargain under this subsection.
(3) Public employees who are court reporters, as defined in
the Court Reporters Act, shall be divided into 3 units for
collective bargaining purposes. One unit shall be court
reporters employed by the Cook County Judicial Circuit; one

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unit shall be court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th, 19th,
and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial circuits;
and one unit shall be court reporters employed by all other
judicial circuits.
(Source: P.A. 96-1257, eff. 7-23-10; 97-586, eff. 8-26-11.)
(5 ILCS 315/6.1)
Sec. 6.1. Gubernatorial designation of certain public
employment positions as excluded from collective bargaining.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the
contrary, except subsection (e) of this Section, the Governor
is authorized to designate up to 3,580 State employment
positions collectively within State agencies directly
responsible to the Governor, and, upon designation, those
positions and employees in those positions, if any, are hereby
excluded from the self-organization and collective bargaining
provisions of Section 6 of this Act. Only those employment
positions that have been certified in a bargaining unit on or
after December 2, 2008, that have a pending petition for
certification in a bargaining unit on the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, or that
neither have been certified in a bargaining unit on or after
December 2, 2008 nor have a pending petition for certification
in a bargaining unit on the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 97th General Assembly are eligible to be designated
by the Governor under this Section. The Governor may not

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designate under this Section, however, more than 1,900
employment positions that have been certified in a bargaining
unit on or after December 2, 2008.
(b) In order to properly designate a State employment
position under this Section, the Governor shall provide in
writing to the Board: the job title and job duties of the
employment position; the name of the State employee currently
in the employment position, if any; the name of the State
agency employing the public employee; and the category under
which the position qualifies for designation under this
Section.
To qualify for designation under this Section, the
employment position must meet one or more of the following
requirements:
(1) it must authorize an employee in that position to
act as a legislative liaison;
(2) it must have a title of, or authorize a person who
holds that position to exercise substantially similar
duties as an, Agency General Counsel, Agency Chief of
Staff, Agency Executive Director, Agency Deputy Director,
Agency Chief Fiscal Officer, Agency Human Resources
Director, Senior Public Service Administrator, Public
Information Officer, or Chief Information Officer;
(3) it must be a Rutan-exempt, as designated by the
employer, position and completely exempt from jurisdiction
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(4) it must be a term appointed position pursuant to
Section 8b.18 or 8b.19 of the Personnel Code; or
(5) it must authorize an employee in that position to
have significant and independent discretionary authority
as an employee.
Within 60 days after the Governor makes a designation under
this Section, the Board shall determine, in a manner that is
consistent with the requirements of due process, whether the
designation comports with the requirements of this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section, a person has
significant and independent discretionary authority as an
employee if he or she (i) is engaged in executive and
management functions of a State agency and charged with the
effectuation of management policies and practices of a State
agency or represents management interests by taking or
recommending discretionary actions that effectively control or
implement the policy of a State agency or (ii) qualifies as a
supervisor of a State agency as that term is defined under
Section 152 of the National Labor Relations Act or any orders
of the National Labor Relations Board interpreting that
provision or decisions of courts reviewing decisions of the
National Labor Relations Board.
(d) The Governor must exercise the authority afforded under
this Section within 365 calendar days after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. Any
designation made by the Governor under this Section shall be

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presumed to have been properly made.
If the Governor chooses not to designate a position under
this Section, then that decision does not preclude a State
agency from otherwise challenging the certification of that
position under this Act.
The qualifying categories set forth in paragraphs (1)
through (5) of subsection (b) of this Section are operative and
function solely within this Section and do not expand or
restrict the scope of any other provision contained in this
Act.
(e) The provisions of this Section do not apply to any
employee who is employed by a public employer and who is
classified as, or holds the employment title of, Civil Engineer
V, Civil Engineer VI, Civil Engineer VII, Technical Manager I,
Technical Manager II, Technical Manager III, Technical Manager
IV, Technical Manager V, Technical Manager VI, Realty
Specialist III, Realty Specialist IV, Realty Specialist V,
Technical Advisor I, Technical Advisor II, Technical Advisor
III, Technical Advisor IV, or Technical Advisor V.
(Source: 09700SB1556ham002.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.