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90_HB2270

      750 ILCS 5/714 new
          Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of  Marriage
      Act.   Provides that a person who without good cause defaults
      on  an  order  for  child support issued by an Illinois court
      for a period of 2 months or longer is guilty  of  a  Class  A
      misdemeanor.  Provides for community service to be  performed
      by an offender.
                                                     LRB9004930DJcd
                                               LRB9004930DJcd
 1        AN  ACT to amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
 2    Marriage  Act by adding Section 714.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution of
 6    Marriage Act is  amended by adding Section 714 as follows:
 7        (750 ILCS 5/714 new)
 8        Sec. 714. Default on support; penalties.
 9        (a) Beginning on the effective date  of  this  amendatory
10    Act  of 1997, a  person who without good cause defaults on an
11    order for child support issued  by an Illinois  court  for  a
12    period  of  2  months  or  longer  is  guilty  of  a  Class A
13    misdemeanor.
14        (b)  In addition  to  any  other  sentence  that  may  be
15    imposed,  a court shall order any person convicted of default
16    on child support under subsection (a)  to  perform  community
17    service  for not less than 30 and not more than 120 hours, if
18    community service is available in  the  jurisdiction  and  is
19    funded  and  approved by the county board of the county where
20    the offense was committed. In addition, whenever  any  person
21    is  placed  on  supervision for an alleged offense under this
22    Section,  the  supervision  shall  be  conditioned  upon  the
23    performance of the community service.
24        This subsection does not apply when the court  imposes  a
25    sentence of incarceration.
26        (c)    This   Section   applies   to   any   judicial  or
27    administrative order for  child  support  issued  under  this
28    Act,  the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Non-Support of Spouse
29    and Children Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal  Enforcement
30    of Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984.

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