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91_HB1397

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution  of
 2    Marriage Act by changing Section 505.1.

 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 changing Section 505.1 as follows:

 7        (750 ILCS 5/505.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 505.1)
 8        Sec.   505.1.    (a)  Whenever  it  is  determined  in  a
 9    proceeding  to  establish  or  enforce  a  child  support  or
10    maintenance obligation  that  the  person  owing  a  duty  of
11    support is unemployed, the court may order the person to seek
12    employment and report periodically to the court with a diary,
13    listing  or  other  memorandum  of  his  or  her  efforts  in
14    accordance  with  the such order. Additionally, the court may
15    order the unemployed person to report to  the  Department  of
16    Employment  Security  for  job  search  services  or  to make
17    application with the local Job Jobs Training Partnership  Act
18    provider  for  participation  in job search, training or work
19    programs and where the duty of support is  owed  to  a  child
20    receiving  support  services  under Article X of the Illinois
21    Public  Aid  Code,  as  amended,  the  court  may  order  the
22    unemployed person to report to  the  Illinois  Department  of
23    Public  Aid for participation in job search, training or work
24    programs established under Section 9-6  and  Article  IXA  of
25    that Code.
26        (b)  Whenever   it  is  determined  that  a  person  owes
27    past-due support for a child or for a child  and  the  parent
28    with  whom  the  child  is living, and the child is receiving
29    assistance under the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  the  court
30    shall  order  at  the  request  of the Illinois Department of
31    Public Aid:
 
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 1             (1)  that the person pay  the  past-due  support  in
 2        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
 3             (2)  if   the   person  owing  past-due  support  is
 4        unemployed, is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is  not
 5        incapacitated,  that  the  person participate in such job
 6        search, training,  or  work  programs  established  under
 7        Section  9-6  and  Article IXA of the Illinois Public Aid
 8        Code as the court deems appropriate.
 9    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; revised 10-31-98.)

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