Illinois HB 1564: DHS-MENTAL HLTH TECH-TESTING

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
HB1564

Introduced 1/28/2025, 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

HB1564LRB104 07467 KTG 17508 b

1 AN ACT concerning State government.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental 

5Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section 

64.5 as follows:

7 (20 ILCS 1705/4.5 new)

8 Sec. 4.5. TABE and physical agility testing for mental 

9health technicians. The Department shall require every 

10applicant seeking employment as a mental health technician 

11trainee at a State-operated developmental center to: (i) 

12complete the Test for Adult Basic Education and obtain a score 

13that demonstrates the applicant's ability to read and write at 

14a 5th grade level; and (ii) complete a serie