Bill Text: IL SB1728 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Personnel Code. Defines "State agency" and "State employee". Makes changes concerning the membership of the Interagency Committee on Employees with Disabilities. Provides the purposes and functions of the Committee. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-31 - Motion Filed to Reconsider Vote Sen. John J. Cullerton [SB1728 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB1728-Engrossed.html

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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:
(20 ILCS 415/19a rep.)
Section 5. The Personnel Code is amended by repealing
Section 19a.
Section 10. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
adding Section 2-106 as follows:
(775 ILCS 5/2-106 new)
Sec. 2-106. Interagency Committee on Employees with
Disabilities.
(A) As used in this Section:
"State agency" means all officers, boards, commissions,
and agencies created by the Constitution in the executive
branch; all officers, departments, boards, commissions,
agencies, institutions, authorities, universities, bodies
politic and corporate of the State; and administrative units or
corporate outgrowths of the State government which are created
by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government
and their officers, school districts, and boards of election
commissioners; all administrative units and corporate
outgrowths of the above and as may be created by executive

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order of the Governor.
"State employee" means an employee of a State agency.
(B) The Interagency Committee on Employees with
Disabilities, created under repealed Section 19a of the
Personnel Code, is continued as set forth in this Section. The
Committee is composed of 18 members as follows: the Chairperson
of the Civil Service Commission or his or her designee, the
Director of Veterans' Affairs or his or her designee, the
Director of Central Management Services or his or her designee,
the Secretary of Human Services or his or her designee, the
Director of Human Rights or his or her designee, the Director
of the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities or his or
her designee, the Lieutenant Governor or his or her designee,
the Attorney General or his or her designee, the Secretary of
State or his or her designee, the State Comptroller or his or
her designee, the State Treasurer or his or her designee, and 7
State employees with disabilities appointed by and serving at
the pleasure of the Governor.
(C) The Director of Human Rights and the Secretary of Human
Services shall serve as co-chairpersons of the Committee. The
Committee shall meet as often as it deems necessary, but in no
case less than 6 times annually at the call of the
co-chairpersons. Notice shall be given to the members in
writing in advance of a scheduled meeting.
(D) The Department of Human Rights shall provide
administrative support to the Committee.

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(E) The purposes and functions of the Committee are: (1) to
provide a forum where problems of general concern to State
employees with disabilities can be raised and methods of their
resolution can be suggested to the appropriate State agencies;
(2) to provide a clearinghouse of information for State
employees with disabilities by working with those agencies to
develop and retain such information; (3) to promote affirmative
action efforts pertaining to the employment of persons with
disabilities by State agencies; and (4) to recommend, where
appropriate, means of strengthening the affirmative action
programs for employees with disabilities in State agencies.
(F) The Committee shall annually make a complete report to
the General Assembly on the Committee's achievements and
accomplishments. Such report may also include an evaluation by
the Committee of the effectiveness of the hiring and
advancement practices in State government.
(G) This amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly is not
intended to disqualify any current member of the Committee from
continued membership on the Committee in accordance with the
terms of this Section or the member's appointment.