HB6970 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 16026 AMC 41651 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6970

Introduced 02/09/04, by Sara Feigenholtz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 10/12

from Ch. 23, par. 2222

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Prohibits a licensed child welfare agency that places children for the purposes of adoption from including in any published advertisement for the agency language that offers free medical care, housing, clothing, or transportation or makes any other offer of services that the Department may reasonably construe to be an inducement or offer for compensation for making a child available for placement with the child welfare agency.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning child care.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:

(225 ILCS 10/12) (from Ch. 23, par. 2222)

Sec. 12. Advertising.

A child care facility licensed or operating under a permit issued by the Department may publish advertisements of the services for which it is specifically licensed or issued a permit under this Act. No person, unless licensed or holding a permit as a child care facility, may cause to be published any advertisement soliciting a child or children for care or placement or offering a child or children for care or placement.

A licensed child welfare agency that places children for the purposes of adoption may not include in any published advertisement for the agency language that offers free medical care, housing, clothing, or transportation or makes any other offer of services that the Department may reasonably construe to be an inducement or offer for compensation for making a child available for placement with the child welfare agency. This paragraph does not prohibit a child welfare agency from advertising counseling and casework services.

(Source: P.A. 76-63.)