104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1564 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require every applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Provides that such testing shall be in addition to any other testing or application requirements for employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center. Effective immediately. LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1564 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new 20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require every applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Provides that such testing shall be in addition to any other testing or application requirements for employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center. Effective immediately. LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1564 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new 20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new
20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require every applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Provides that such testing shall be in addition to any other testing or application requirements for employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning State government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section
6 4.5 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new)
8 Sec. 4.5. TABE and physical agility testing for mental
9 health technicians. The Department shall require every
10 applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician
11 trainee at a State-operated developmental center to: (i)
12 complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score
13 that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at
14 a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical
15 agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the
16 applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile
17 walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Such
18 testing shall be in addition to any other testing or
19 application requirements for employment as a mental health
20 technician trainee at a State-operated developmental center.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1564 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new 20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new
20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require every applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a series of basic physical agility tests, including a test that demonstrates the applicant's ability to lift at least 50 pounds, a one-mile walk test, a shuttle run, and a patient transfer test. Provides that such testing shall be in addition to any other testing or application requirements for employment as a mental health technician at a State-operated developmental center. Effective immediately.
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LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b
A BILL FOR
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