PERSONNEL-HIRING-DISABLED

Amends the Personnel Code. Authorizes the appointment, without competitive examination, interview, or other pre-employment testing, of a person who has served as an employee in a trainee position with an agency for a period of at least one year and who has a severe disabling condition that impairs his or her ability to successfully complete examinations, interviews, or other pre-employment testing, provided that a counselor of the Division of Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Human Services has certified to the agency that the person is capable of performing the primary functions of the position. Specifies that appointments of such persons shall be without regard to eligible lists and without regard to the provisions of the Code requiring the appointment of the person standing among the 3 highest on the appropriate eligible list to fill a vacancy or from the highest category ranking group if the list is by rankings instead of numerical rankings. Effective immediately.