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 1        AN ACT regarding child support.

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

 4        Section  5.   The  State  Comptroller  Act  is amended by
 5    changing Section 10.05a as follows:

 6        (15 ILCS 405/10.05a) (from Ch. 15, par. 210.05a)
 7        Sec. 10.05a.  Deductions from Warrants and  Payments  for
 8    Satisfaction  of Past Due Child Support.  At the direction of
 9    the Department of Public Aid, the  Comptroller  shall  deduct
10    from a warrant or other payment described in Section 10.05 of
11    this Act, in accordance with the procedures provided therein,
12    and pay over to the State Disbursement Unit established under
13    Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code Department that
14    amount  certified  as  necessary  to  satisfy, in whole or in
15    part, past due support owed by a person on account of support
16    action being taken by the Department under Article X  of  The
17    Illinois Public Aid Code, whether or not such support is owed
18    to  the  State.   Such deduction shall have priority over any
19    garnishment except that  for  payment  of  state  or  federal
20    taxes.   In  the  case of joint payees, the Comptroller shall
21    deduct and pay over to the State Disbursement Unit Department
22     the entire amount certified.  The Comptroller shall  provide
23    the Department with the address to which the warrant or other
24    payment  was  to  be mailed and the social security number of
25    each person from whom a deduction is made  pursuant  to  this
26    Section.
27    (Source: P.A. 84-825.)

28        Section 10.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
29    amended by changing Section 39b52 as follows:
 
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 1        (20 ILCS 2505/39b52)
 2        Sec.   39b52.  Collection  of  past  due  support.   Upon
 3    certification of past due  child  support  amounts  from  the
 4    Department  of  Public  Aid,  the  Department  of Revenue may
 5    collect the delinquency in  any  manner  authorized  for  the
 6    collection  of  any  tax  administered  by  the Department of
 7    Revenue.   The  Department  of  Revenue  shall   notify   the
 8    Department  of Public Aid when the delinquency or any portion
 9    of the delinquency has been  collected  under  this  Section.
10    Any  child support delinquency collected by the Department of
11    Revenue, including those amounts that result  in  overpayment
12    of  a  child  support delinquency, shall be paid to the State
13    Disbursement Unit established  under  Section  10-26  of  the
14    Illinois Public Aid Code deposited in, or transferred to, the
15    Child  Support  Enforcement  Trust  Fund.   The Department of
16    Revenue  may  implement  this  Section  through  the  use  of
17    emergency rules  in  accordance  with  Section  5-45  of  the
18    Illinois  Administrative  Procedure Act.  For purposes of the
19    Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of  rules
20    to  implement  this  Section shall be considered an emergency
21    and necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.
22    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 12-31-95; 90-491, eff. 1-1-98.)

23        Section 15.  The Illinois Income Tax Act  is  amended  by
24    changing Section 901 as follows:

25        (35 ILCS 5/901) (from Ch. 120, par. 9-901)
26        Sec. 901.  Collection Authority.
27        (a)  In general.
28        The  Department  shall  collect the taxes imposed by this
29    Act.  The Department shall collect certified past  due  child
30    support   amounts   under   Section   39b52   of   the  Civil
31    Administrative Code  of  Illinois.   Except  as  provided  in
32    subsections  (c)  and  (e)  of  this Section, money collected
 
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 1    pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of Section  201  of  this
 2    Act  shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund in the State
 3    treasury; money collected pursuant to subsections (c) and (d)
 4    of Section 201 of this Act shall be paid  into  the  Personal
 5    Property  Tax  Replacement  Fund, a special fund in the State
 6    Treasury; and money collected  under  Section  39b52  of  the
 7    Civil  Administrative  Code  of Illinois shall be paid to the
 8    State Disbursement Unit established under  Section  10-26  of
 9    the   Illinois   Public  Aid  Code  into  the  Child  Support
10    Enforcement Trust Fund, a  special  fund  outside  the  State
11    Treasury.
12        (b)  Local Governmental Distributive Fund.
13        Beginning August 1, 1969, and continuing through June 30,
14    1994,  the  Treasurer  shall  transfer  each  month  from the
15    General Revenue Fund to a special fund in the State treasury,
16    to be known as the "Local Government Distributive  Fund",  an
17    amount equal to 1/12 of the net revenue realized from the tax
18    imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act
19    during  the  preceding  month.  Beginning  July  1, 1994, and
20    continuing  through  June  30,  1995,  the  Treasurer   shall
21    transfer  each  month  from  the  General Revenue Fund to the
22    Local Government Distributive Fund an amount equal to 1/11 of
23    the net revenue realized from the tax imposed by  subsections
24    (a)  and  (b) of Section 201 of this Act during the preceding
25    month.  Beginning July 1, 1995, the Treasurer shall  transfer
26    each  month  from  the  General  Revenue  Fund  to  the Local
27    Government Distributive Fund an amount equal to 1/10  of  the
28    net  revenue realized from the tax imposed by subsections (a)
29    and (b) of Section 201 of the Illinois Income Tax Act  during
30    the  preceding  month. Net revenue realized for a month shall
31    be defined as the revenue from the tax imposed by subsections
32    (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act which is deposited  in
33    the General Revenue Fund, the Educational Assistance Fund and
34    the  Income  Tax Surcharge Local Government Distributive Fund
 
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 1    during the month minus the amount paid  out  of  the  General
 2    Revenue  Fund  in  State  warrants  during that same month as
 3    refunds to taxpayers for overpayment of liability  under  the
 4    tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this
 5    Act.

 6        (c)  Deposits Into Income Tax Refund Fund.
 7             (1)  Beginning  on  January  1, 1989 and thereafter,
 8        the Department shall deposit a percentage of the  amounts
 9        collected  pursuant  to  subsections (a) and (b)(1), (2),
10        and (3), of Section 201 of this Act into a  fund  in  the
11        State  treasury known as the Income Tax Refund Fund.  The
12        Department shall deposit 6% of such  amounts  during  the
13        period  beginning  January 1, 1989 and ending on June 30,
14        1989.  Beginning with State fiscal year 1990 and for each
15        fiscal year thereafter, the percentage deposited into the
16        Income Tax Refund Fund during a fiscal year shall be  the
17        Annual  Percentage.   For fiscal years 1999 through 2001,
18        the Annual Percentage  shall  be  7.1%.   For  all  other
19        fiscal  years,  the Annual Percentage shall be calculated
20        as a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the amount
21        of refunds approved for payment by the Department  during
22        the  preceding  fiscal year as a result of overpayment of
23        tax liability under subsections (a) and (b)(1), (2),  and
24        (3)  of  Section  201 of this Act plus the amount of such
25        refunds remaining approved but unpaid at the end  of  the
26        preceding  fiscal year, the denominator of which shall be
27        the  amounts  which  will  be   collected   pursuant   to
28        subsections  (a)  and (b)(1), (2), and (3) of Section 201
29        of this  Act  during  the  preceding  fiscal  year.   The
30        Director  of  Revenue shall certify the Annual Percentage
31        to the Comptroller on the last business day of the fiscal
32        year immediately preceding the fiscal year for  which  it
33        is to be effective.
34             (2)  Beginning  on  January  1, 1989 and thereafter,
 
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 1        the Department shall deposit a percentage of the  amounts
 2        collected  pursuant  to  subsections (a) and (b)(6), (7),
 3        and (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this  Act  into  a
 4        fund in the State treasury known as the Income Tax Refund
 5        Fund.   The  Department shall deposit 18% of such amounts
 6        during the period beginning January 1, 1989 and ending on
 7        June 30, 1989.  Beginning with State fiscal year 1990 and
 8        for each fiscal year thereafter, the percentage deposited
 9        into the Income Tax Refund  Fund  during  a  fiscal  year
10        shall  be  the Annual Percentage.  For fiscal years 1999,
11        2000, and 2001, the Annual Percentage shall be 19%.   For
12        all  other  fiscal  years, the Annual Percentage shall be
13        calculated as a fraction, the numerator of which shall be
14        the  amount  of  refunds  approved  for  payment  by  the
15        Department during the preceding fiscal year as  a  result
16        of overpayment of tax liability under subsections (a) and
17        (b)(6),  (7), and (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this
18        Act plus the amount of such  refunds  remaining  approved
19        but  unpaid  at the end of the preceding fiscal year, the
20        denominator of which shall be the amounts which  will  be
21        collected  pursuant  to  subsections (a) and (b)(6), (7),
22        and (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201 of  this  Act  during
23        the preceding fiscal year.  The Director of Revenue shall
24        certify  the  Annual Percentage to the Comptroller on the
25        last  business  day  of  the  fiscal   year   immediately
26        preceding   the  fiscal  year  for  which  it  is  to  be
27        effective.

28        (d)  Expenditures from Income Tax Refund Fund.
29             (1)  Beginning January 1, 1989, money in the  Income
30        Tax  Refund  Fund  shall  be expended exclusively for the
31        purpose of paying refunds resulting from  overpayment  of
32        tax  liability  under  Section  201  of  this Act and for
33        making transfers pursuant to this subsection (d).
34             (2)  The Director shall  order  payment  of  refunds
 
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 1        resulting from overpayment of tax liability under Section
 2        201  of  this Act from the Income Tax Refund Fund only to
 3        the extent that amounts collected pursuant to Section 201
 4        of this Act and transfers pursuant to this subsection (d)
 5        have been deposited and retained in the Fund.
 6             (3)  As soon as  possible  after  the  end  of  each
 7        fiscal year, the Director shall order transferred and the
 8        State Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from
 9        the  Income  Tax Refund Fund to the Personal Property Tax
10        Replacement Fund an amount, certified by the Director  to
11        the  Comptroller,  equal  to  the  excess  of  the amount
12        collected pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of  Section
13        201 of this Act deposited into the Income Tax Refund Fund
14        during  the  fiscal  year  over  the  amount  of  refunds
15        resulting   from   overpayment  of  tax  liability  under
16        subsections (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this  Act  paid
17        from the Income Tax Refund Fund during the fiscal year.
18             (4)  As  soon  as  possible  after  the  end of each
19        fiscal year, the Director shall order transferred and the
20        State Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from
21        the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to the  Income
22        Tax  Refund  Fund an amount, certified by the Director to
23        the Comptroller, equal to the excess  of  the  amount  of
24        refunds resulting from overpayment of tax liability under
25        subsections  (c)  and (d) of Section 201 of this Act paid
26        from the Income Tax Refund Fund during  the  fiscal  year
27        over the amount collected pursuant to subsections (c) and
28        (d)  of Section 201 of this Act deposited into the Income
29        Tax Refund Fund during the fiscal year.
30             (4.5)  As soon as possible after the end  of  fiscal
31        year  1999  and  of  each  fiscal  year  thereafter,  the
32        Director  shall order transferred and the State Treasurer
33        and State Comptroller shall transfer from the Income  Tax
34        Refund  Fund  to  the  General  Revenue  Fund any surplus
 
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 1        remaining in the Income Tax Refund Fund as of the end  of
 2        such fiscal year.
 3             (5)  This  Act  shall  constitute an irrevocable and
 4        continuing appropriation from the Income Tax Refund  Fund
 5        for  the  purpose of paying refunds upon the order of the
 6        Director  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this
 7        Section.
 8        (e)  Deposits into the Education Assistance Fund and  the
 9    Income Tax Surcharge Local Government Distributive Fund.
10        On July 1, 1991, and thereafter, of the amounts collected
11    pursuant  to  subsections  (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this
12    Act, minus deposits into the  Income  Tax  Refund  Fund,  the
13    Department  shall  deposit 7.3% into the Education Assistance
14    Fund in the State Treasury.   Beginning  July  1,  1991,  and
15    continuing through January 31, 1993, of the amounts collected
16    pursuant  to  subsections  (a)  and (b) of Section 201 of the
17    Illinois Income Tax Act, minus deposits into the  Income  Tax
18    Refund  Fund,  the  Department  shall  deposit  3.0% into the
19    Income Tax Surcharge Local Government  Distributive  Fund  in
20    the   State   Treasury.    Beginning  February  1,  1993  and
21    continuing through June 30, 1993, of  the  amounts  collected
22    pursuant  to  subsections  (a)  and (b) of Section 201 of the
23    Illinois Income Tax Act, minus deposits into the  Income  Tax
24    Refund  Fund,  the  Department  shall  deposit  4.4% into the
25    Income Tax Surcharge Local Government  Distributive  Fund  in
26    the  State  Treasury.  Beginning July 1, 1993, and continuing
27    through  June  30,  1994,  of  the  amounts  collected  under
28    subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201  of  this  Act,  minus
29    deposits  into  the  Income  Tax  Refund Fund, the Department
30    shall deposit 1.475% into  the  Income  Tax  Surcharge  Local
31    Government Distributive Fund in the State Treasury.
32    (Source:  P.A.  89-6,  eff.  12-31-95;  90-613,  eff. 7-9-98;
33    90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
 
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 1        Section 20.  The Illinois Public Aid Code is  amended  by
 2    changing  Sections 10-8, 10-10, 10-10.3, 10-11, 10-15, 10-16,
 3    10-17.9, 10-19, 12-9, and  12-10.2  and  by  adding  Sections
 4    10-10.4, 10-10.5, 10-11.2, and 10-26 as follows:

 5        (305 ILCS 5/10-8) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-8)
 6        Sec.  10-8.   Support  Payments  - Partial Support - Full
 7    Support.)   The  notice  to  responsible   relatives   issued
 8    pursuant  to  Section  10-7  shall  direct payment (a) to the
 9    Illinois Department in cases  of  applicants  and  recipients
10    under  Articles III, IV, V and VII, (b) except as provided in
11    Section 10-3.1, to the local governmental unit in the case of
12    applicants and recipients under Article VI, and  (c)  to  the
13    Illinois   Department   in   cases   of   non-applicants  and
14    non-recipients given access to the child and  spouse  support
15    services  of  this  Article,  as  provided  by  Section 10-1.
16    However, if the support payments by responsible relatives are
17    sufficient to meet needs of a recipient  in  full,  including
18    current  and  anticipated  medical  needs,  and  the Illinois
19    Department or the local governmental unit, as  the  case  may
20    be,  has  reasonable  grounds to believe that such needs will
21    continue to be provided in full by the responsible relatives,
22    the relatives may be  directed  to  make  subsequent  support
23    payments  to  the needy person or to some person or agency in
24    his behalf and the recipient shall be removed from the rolls.
25    In such instance the recipient  also  shall  be  notified  by
26    registered  or  certified  mail  of  the  action taken.  If a
27    recipient  removed  from  the  rolls  requests  the  Illinois
28    Department to continue to collect the support payments in his
29    behalf, the Department, at its option,  may  do  so  and  pay
30    amounts  so  collected  to  the  person.   The Department may
31    provide for deducting any costs incurred by it in making  the
32    collection  from the amount of any recovery made and pay only
33    the net amount to the person.
 
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 1        Payments under this Section to  the  Illinois  Department
 2    pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
 3    by  Title  IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be paid into
 4    the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other  payments
 5    under  this  Section  to  the  Illinois  Department  shall be
 6    deposited in the Public  Assistance  Recoveries  Trust  Fund.
 7    Disbursements  from  these  funds  shall  be  as  provided in
 8    Sections 12-9 and 12-10.2 of this Code. Payments received  by
 9    a  local  governmental unit shall be deposited in that unit's
10    General Assistance Fund.
11        To  the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section   are
12    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
13    Disbursement Unit under Sections 10-10.4 and  10-26  of  this
14    Code,  the  requirements pertaining to the State Disbursement
15    Unit shall apply.
16    (Source: P.A. 83-1126.)

17        (305 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-10)
18        Sec. 10-10.  Court  enforcement;  applicability  also  to
19    persons  who  are not applicants or recipients.  Except where
20    the Illinois Department, by agreement,  acts  for  the  local
21    governmental  unit,  as  provided  in  Section  10-3.1, local
22    governmental units shall refer to the State's Attorney or  to
23    the proper legal representative of the governmental unit, for
24    judicial   enforcement   as  herein  provided,  instances  of
25    non-support or insufficient support when the  dependents  are
26    applicants  or  recipients  under  Article VI.  The Child and
27    Spouse  Support  Unit  established  by  Section  10-3.1   may
28    institute  in  behalf  of the Illinois Department any actions
29    under this Section for judicial enforcement  of  the  support
30    liability   when   the   dependents  are  (a)  applicants  or
31    recipients under Articles III, IV, V or VII (b) applicants or
32    recipients in a local governmental  unit  when  the  Illinois
33    Department,   by   agreement,  acts  for  the  unit;  or  (c)
 
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 1    non-applicants or non-recipients who  are  receiving  support
 2    enforcement  services  under  this  Article X, as provided in
 3    Section 10-1. Where the Child and  Spouse  Support  Unit  has
 4    exercised   its  option  and  discretion  not  to  apply  the
 5    provisions of Sections 10-3 through 10-8, the failure by  the
 6    Unit  to apply such provisions shall not be a bar to bringing
 7    an action under this Section.
 8        Action shall be brought in the circuit  court  to  obtain
 9    support, or for the recovery of aid granted during the period
10    such  support was not provided, or both for the obtainment of
11    support and the recovery of the aid  provided.   Actions  for
12    the  recovery  of  aid may be taken separately or they may be
13    consolidated with actions to obtain  support.   Such  actions
14    may be brought in the name of the person or persons requiring
15    support,  or  may  be  brought  in  the  name of the Illinois
16    Department or  the  local  governmental  unit,  as  the  case
17    requires, in behalf of such persons.
18        The court may enter such orders for the payment of moneys
19    for  the  support  of the person as may be just and equitable
20    and may direct payment thereof for such period or periods  of
21    time  as  the  circumstances require, including support for a
22    period before the date the order for support is entered.  The
23    order may be entered against any  or  all  of  the  defendant
24    responsible relatives and may be based upon the proportionate
25    ability of each to contribute to the person's support.
26        The  Court  shall  determine  the amount of child support
27    (including child support for a period  before  the  date  the
28    order  for  child support is entered) by using the guidelines
29    and standards set forth in subsection (a) of Section 505  and
30    in  Section 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
31    Marriage Act. For purposes of determining the amount of child
32    support to be paid for a period before the date the order for
33    child support is entered, there is a  rebuttable  presumption
34    that  the  responsible  relative's net income for that period
 
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 1    was the same as his or her net income at the time  the  order
 2    is entered.
 3        An  order  entered  under  this  Section  shall include a
 4    provision requiring the obligor to report to the obligee  and
 5    to  the  clerk  of court within 10 days each time the obligor
 6    obtains  new  employment,  and  each   time   the   obligor's
 7    employment  is terminated for any reason. The report shall be
 8    in writing and shall, in the case of new employment,  include
 9    the  name  and address of the new employer. Failure to report
10    new employment or the termination of current  employment,  if
11    coupled  with nonpayment of support for a period in excess of
12    60 days, is indirect  criminal  contempt.   For  any  obligor
13    arrested  for  failure to report new employment bond shall be
14    set in the amount of the child support that should have  been
15    paid  during  the  period of unreported employment.  An order
16    entered under this Section shall  also  include  a  provision
17    requiring  the  obligor  and  obligee  parents to advise each
18    other of a change in residence within 5 days  of  the  change
19    except  when  the  court  finds that the physical, mental, or
20    emotional health of a party or that  of  a  minor  child,  or
21    both,  would  be  seriously  endangered  by disclosure of the
22    party's address.
23        The Court shall determine the amount of maintenance using
24    the standards set  forth  in  Section  504  of  the  Illinois
25    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
26        Any  new  or  existing support order entered by the court
27    under this  Section  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  series  of
28    judgments   against  the  person  obligated  to  pay  support
29    thereunder, each such judgment to be in the  amount  of  each
30    payment  or  installment of support and each such judgment to
31    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
32    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
33    Each such judgment shall have  the  full  force,  effect  and
34    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
 
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 1    ability  to  be  enforced.   Any  such judgment is subject to
 2    modification or termination only in accordance  with  Section
 3    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
 4    A  lien  arises  by  operation  of  law  against the real and
 5    personal  property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for   each
 6    installment  of  overdue  support  owed  by  the noncustodial
 7    parent.
 8        When an order is entered for the support of a minor,  the
 9    court  may  provide  therein for reasonable visitation of the
10    minor by the person or persons who provided support  pursuant
11    to  the order.  Whoever willfully refuses to comply with such
12    visitation order or willfully interferes with its enforcement
13    may be declared in contempt of court and punished therefor.
14        Except where the local governmental unit has entered into
15    an agreement with the Illinois Department for the  Child  and
16    Spouse  Support  Unit  to  act for it, as provided in Section
17    10-3.1,  support  orders  entered  by  the  court  in   cases
18    involving  applicants  or  recipients  under Article VI shall
19    provide that payments thereunder  be  made  directly  to  the
20    local governmental unit.  Orders for the support of all other
21    applicants   or   recipients   shall  provide  that  payments
22    thereunder be made directly to the  Illinois  Department.  In
23    accordance  with  federal  law  and regulations, the Illinois
24    Department  may  continue  to  collect  current   maintenance
25    payments  or  child  support  payments,  or both, after those
26    persons  cease  to  receive  public  assistance   and   until
27    termination  of  services  under  Article  X.   The  Illinois
28    Department  shall  pay  the  net  amount  collected  to those
29    persons after deducting any  costs  incurred  in  making  the
30    collection  or  any  collection  fee  from  the amount of any
31    recovery made.  In both cases  the  order  shall  permit  the
32    local  governmental  unit  or the Illinois Department, as the
33    case may be, to direct the responsible relative or  relatives
34    to  make support payments directly to the needy person, or to
 
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 1    some person or agency in his  behalf,  upon  removal  of  the
 2    person  from  the  public  aid  rolls  or upon termination of
 3    services under Article X.
 4        If the notice of support due issued pursuant  to  Section
 5    10-7  directs  that  support payments be made directly to the
 6    needy person, or to some person or agency in his behalf,  and
 7    the  recipient  is  removed  from the public aid rolls, court
 8    action  may  be  taken  against  the   responsible   relative
 9    hereunder  if  he fails to furnish support in accordance with
10    the terms of such notice.
11        Actions may also be brought under this Section in  behalf
12    of  any  person  who  is  in need of support from responsible
13    relatives, as defined in Section 2-11 of Article  II  who  is
14    not an applicant for or recipient of financial aid under this
15    Code.   In such instances, the State's Attorney of the county
16    in which such person resides shall bring action  against  the
17    responsible relatives hereunder.  If the Illinois Department,
18    as  authorized  by Section 10-1, extends the support services
19    provided by this Article to spouses  and  dependent  children
20    who  are  not  applicants  or recipients under this Code, the
21    Child and Spouse Support Unit established by  Section  10-3.1
22    shall   bring   action   against  the  responsible  relatives
23    hereunder and any support orders entered by the court in such
24    cases shall provide that payments thereunder be made directly
25    to the Illinois Department.
26        Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to establish or
27    enforce a child support or maintenance  obligation  that  the
28    person  owing  a duty of support is unemployed, the court may
29    order the person to seek employment and  report  periodically
30    to the court with a diary, listing or other memorandum of his
31    or  her efforts in accordance with such order.  Additionally,
32    the court may order the unemployed person to  report  to  the
33    Department  of Employment Security for job search services or
34    to make application with the local Jobs Training  Partnership
 
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 1    Act  provider  for  participation  in job search, training or
 2    work programs and where the duty of  support  is  owed  to  a
 3    child  receiving  support  services under this Article X, the
 4    court may order  the  unemployed  person  to  report  to  the
 5    Illinois Department for participation in job search, training
 6    or  work  programs  established under Section 9-6 and Article
 7    IXA of this Code.
 8        Whenever it is determined that  a  person  owes  past-due
 9    support for a child receiving assistance under this Code, the
10    court shall order at the request of the Illinois Department:
11             (1)  that  the  person  pay  the past-due support in
12        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
13             (2)  if  the  person  owing  past-due   support   is
14        unemployed,  is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is not
15        incapacitated, that the person participate  in  such  job
16        search,  training,  or  work  programs  established under
17        Section 9-6 and Article IXA of this  Code  as  the  court
18        deems appropriate.
19        A   determination   under   this  Section  shall  not  be
20    administratively reviewable by the  procedures  specified  in
21    Sections  10-12,  and  10-13  to 10-13.10.  Any determination
22    under these Sections, if made the basis of court action under
23    this  Section,  shall  not  affect  the  de   novo   judicial
24    determination required under this Section.
25        A  one-time charge of 20% is imposable upon the amount of
26    past-due child support owed on July 1, 1988 which has accrued
27    under a support order entered by the court.  The charge shall
28    be imposed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-21
29    of this  Code  and  shall  be  enforced  by  the  court  upon
30    petition.
31        All  orders  for support, when entered or modified, shall
32    include a provision requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to
33    notify  the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
34    child and spouse support services under this Article  X,  the
 
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 1    Illinois Department, within 7 days, (i) of the name, address,
 2    and telephone number of any new employer of the non-custodial
 3    parent,  (ii)  whether the non-custodial parent has access to
 4    health insurance coverage through the employer or other group
 5    coverage and, if so, the policy name and number and the names
 6    of persons covered under the policy, and  (iii)  of  any  new
 7    residential  or  mailing  address  or telephone number of the
 8    non-custodial parent.  In any subsequent action to enforce  a
 9    support  order,  upon  a  sufficient  showing that a diligent
10    effort has  been  made  to  ascertain  the  location  of  the
11    non-custodial  parent,  service  of  process  or provision of
12    notice necessary in the case may be made at  the  last  known
13    address  of  the non-custodial parent in any manner expressly
14    provided by the Code of Civil Procedure or this  Code,  which
15    service shall be sufficient for purposes of due process.
16    in accordance with the Income Withholding for Support Act
17        An  order  for  support shall include a date on which the
18    current support obligation terminates.  The termination  date
19    shall  be no earlier than the date on which the child covered
20    by the order will attain the age of majority or is  otherwise
21    emancipated.   The  order  for  support  shall state that the
22    termination date does not apply to  any  arrearage  that  may
23    remain  unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall
24    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
25        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
26    transmission from the Illinois Department to the clerk of the
27    court that a person who is receiving support  payments  under
28    this  Section  is  receiving services under the Child Support
29    Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the  Social
30    Security  Act,  any support payments subsequently received by
31    the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in  accordance
32    with  the  instructions  of the Illinois Department until the
33    Illinois Department gives notice to the clerk of the court to
34    cease  the  transmittal.  After  providing  the  notification
 
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 1    authorized under  this  paragraph,  the  Illinois  Department
 2    shall  be  entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of any further
 3    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
 4    copy of the Illinois Department's notification in  the  court
 5    file.     The   clerk's   failure  to  file  a  copy  of  the
 6    notification in the court file shall not, however, affect the
 7    Illinois Department's right  to  receive  notice  of  further
 8    proceedings.
 9        Payments  under  this  Section to the Illinois Department
10    pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
11    by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be  paid  into
12    the  Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments
13    under this  Section  to  the  Illinois  Department  shall  be
14    deposited  in  the  Public  Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.
15    Disbursements from  these  funds  shall  be  as  provided  in
16    Sections  12-9 and 12-10.2 of this Code. Payments received by
17    a local governmental unit shall be deposited in  that  unit's
18    General Assistance Fund.
19        To   the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section  are
20    inconsistent with the requirements pertaining  to  the  State
21    Disbursement  Unit  under  Sections 10-10.4 and 10-26 of this
22    Code, the requirements pertaining to the  State  Disbursement
23    Unit shall apply.
24    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-539,  eff.  6-1-98;
25    90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;  90-673,  eff.  1-1-99;  90-790, eff.
26    8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

27        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.3) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-10.3)
28        Sec. 10-10.3.  For those cases in which child support  is
29    payable  to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to
30    the Illinois Department by order of court,  the  clerk  shall
31    transmit all such payments, within 4 working days of receipt,
32    to insure that funds are available for immediate distribution
33    by the Department to the person or entity entitled thereto in
 
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 1    accordance  with  standards  of the Child Support Enforcement
 2    Program established under Title IV-D of the  Social  Security
 3    Act.   The  clerk  shall notify the Department of the date of
 4    receipt and amount thereof at the time of transmittal.  Where
 5    the clerk has entered into an agreement of  cooperation  with
 6    the  Department  to  record the terms of child support orders
 7    and payments made thereunder directly into  the  Department's
 8    automated  data  processing  system,  the clerk shall account
 9    for, transmit and otherwise distribute child support payments
10    in accordance with such agreement in lieu of the requirements
11    contained herein.
12        To  the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section   are
13    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
14    Disbursement Unit under Sections 10-10.4 and  10-26  of  this
15    Code,  the  requirements pertaining to the State Disbursement
16    Unit shall apply.
17    (Source: P.A. 86-1184.)

18        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.4 new)
19        Sec. 10-10.4.  Payment of Support to  State  Disbursement
20    Unit.
21        (a)  As used in this Section:
22        "Order  for  support",  "obligor", "obligee", and "payor"
23    mean those terms as defined in  the  Income  Withholding  for
24    Support Act.
25        (b)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this Code to
26    the contrary, each court or administrative order for  support
27    entered or modified on or after October 1, 1999 shall require
28    that  support payments be made to the State Disbursement Unit
29    established under Section 10-26 if:
30             (1)  a party to the order  is  receiving  child  and
31        spouse support services under this Article X; or
32             (2)  no  party  to  the order is receiving child and
33        spouse support services, but  the  support  payments  are
 
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 1        made through income withholding.
 2        (c)  The  Illinois Department shall provide notice to the
 3    obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's payor to make
 4    support payments to the State Disbursement Unit if:
 5             (1)  the  order  for  support  was  entered   before
 6        October  1,  1999,  and a party to the order is receiving
 7        child and spouse support services under this  Article  X;
 8        or
 9             (2)  the order for support was entered after January
10        1, 1994, no party to the order  is  receiving  child  and
11        spouse  support  services,  and  the support payments are
12        being made through income withholding.
13        (d)  The notice required under subsection (c) may be sent
14    by ordinary mail, certified mail, return  receipt  requested,
15    facsimile  transmission,  or other electronic process, or may
16    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
17    by law for service of a summons.  A copy of the notice  shall
18    be  provided  to  the obligee and, when the order for support
19    was entered by the court, to the clerk of the court.

20        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.5 new)
21        Sec. 10-10.5.  Information to State Case Registry.
22        (a)  When an order for support is entered or modified  by
23    the  circuit  court  under  Section  10-10,  the clerk of the
24    circuit court shall, within 5 business days, provide  to  the
25    Illinois  Department's  State Case Registry established under
26    Section 10-27 of this Code the court docket number and county
27    in which the order is entered or modified and  the  following
28    information, which the parties shall disclose to the court:
29             (1)  The  names  of  the custodial and non-custodial
30        parents and the child or children covered by the order.
31             (2)  The  dates  of  birth  of  the  custodial   and
32        non-custodial  parents  and  of  the  child  or  children
33        covered by the order.
 
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 1             (3)  The  social  security  numbers of the custodial
 2        and non-custodial parents and of the  child  or  children
 3        covered by the order.
 4             (4)  The  residential  and mailing addresses for the
 5        custodial and non-custodial parents.
 6             (5)  The telephone numbers  for  the  custodial  and
 7        non-custodial parents.
 8             (6)  The  driver's license numbers for the custodial
 9        and non-custodial parents.
10             (7)  The name, address, and telephone number of each
11        parent's employer or employers.
12        (b)  When a child support order is  entered  or  modified
13    for  a  case  in  which a party is receiving child and spouse
14    support services under Article X  of  this  Code,  the  clerk
15    shall  provide  the  State  Case  Registry with the following
16    information:
17             (1)  The information specified in subsection (a)  of
18        this Section.
19             (2)  The amount of monthly or other periodic support
20        owed   under  the  order  and  other  amounts,  including
21        arrearages, interest, or late payment penalties and fees,
22        due or overdue under the order.
23             (3)  Any amounts described  in  subdivision  (2)  of
24        this subsection (b) that have been received by the clerk.
25             (4)  The distribution of the amounts received by the
26        clerk.
27        (c)  A  party  shall  report  to the clerk of the circuit
28    court changes in information required to the disclosed  under
29    this Section  within 5 business days of the change.
30        (d)  To  the  extent  that  updated information is in the
31    clerk's possession, the clerk shall provide  updates  of  the
32    information  specified  in  subsection  (b)  of  this Section
33    within  5  business  days  after  the  Illinois  Department's
34    request for that updated information.
 
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 1        (305 ILCS 5/10-11) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-11)
 2        Sec. 10-11.  Administrative Orders. In  lieu  of  actions
 3    for  court  enforcement  of  support under Section 10-10, the
 4    Child and Spouse Support Unit of the Illinois Department,  in
 5    accordance  with  the  rules  of the Illinois Department, may
 6    issue  an  administrative  order  requiring  the  responsible
 7    relative to comply with the terms of  the  determination  and
 8    notice  of  support due, determined and issued under Sections
 9    10-6 and 10-7. The Unit  may  also  enter  an  administrative
10    order   under   subsection   (b)   of   Section   10-7.   The
11    administrative order shall be  served  upon  the  responsible
12    relative  by  United  States registered or certified mail. In
13    cases in which  the  responsible  relative  appeared  at  the
14    office  of  the  Child and Spouse Support Unit in response to
15    the notice of support obligation issued under  Section  10-4,
16    however,  or  in  cases  of  default  in which the notice was
17    served on the responsible relative by certified mail,  return
18    receipt requested, or by a private person as authorized under
19    Section 10-4, or by any method provided by law for service of
20    summons,  the  administrative  determination  of paternity or
21    administrative support order may be sent to  the  responsible
22    relative  by  ordinary  mail  addressed  to  the  responsible
23    relative's last known address.
24        If a responsible relative or a person receiving child and
25    spouse  support services under this Article fails to petition
26    the Illinois Department for release from or  modification  of
27    the  administrative  order,  as  provided in Section 10-12 or
28    Section 10-12.1, the order shall become final and there shall
29    be no further administrative or judicial remedy.  Likewise  a
30    decision  by  the  Illinois  Department  as  a  result  of an
31    administrative hearing, as  provided  in  Sections  10-13  to
32    10-13.10,   shall   become   final  and  enforceable  if  not
33    judicially reviewed under the Administrative Review  Law,  as
34    provided in Section 10-14.
 
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 1        Any new or existing support order entered by the Illinois
 2    Department  under this Section shall be deemed to be a series
 3    of judgments against the  person  obligated  to  pay  support
 4    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
 5    payment or installment of support and each such  judgment  to
 6    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
 7    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
 8    Each  such  judgment  shall  have  the full force, effect and
 9    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
10    ability to be enforced.  Any  such  judgment  is  subject  to
11    modification  or  termination only in accordance with Section
12    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
13    A lien arises by  operation  of  law  against  the  real  and
14    personal   property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for  each
15    installment of  overdue  support  owed  by  the  noncustodial
16    parent.
17        An  order  entered  under  this  Section  shall include a
18    provision requiring the obligor to report to the obligee  and
19    to  the  clerk  of court within 10 days each time the obligor
20    obtains  new  employment,  and  each   time   the   obligor's
21    employment  is terminated for any reason. The report shall be
22    in writing and shall, in the case of new employment,  include
23    the  name  and address of the new employer. Failure to report
24    new employment or the termination of current  employment,  if
25    coupled  with nonpayment of support for a period in excess of
26    60 days, is indirect  criminal  contempt.   For  any  obligor
27    arrested  for  failure to report new employment bond shall be
28    set in the amount of the child support that should have  been
29    paid  during  the  period of unreported employment.  An order
30    entered under this Section shall  also  include  a  provision
31    requiring  the  obligor  and  obligee  parents to advise each
32    other of a change in residence within 5 days  of  the  change
33    except  when  the  court  finds that the physical, mental, or
34    emotional health of a party or that  of  a  minor  child,  or
 
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 1    both,  would  be  seriously  endangered  by disclosure of the
 2    party's address.
 3        A one-time charge of 20% is imposable upon the amount  of
 4    past-due  child  support  owed  on  July  1,  1988, which has
 5    accrued  under  a  support  order  entered  by  the  Illinois
 6    Department under this Section.  The charge shall  be  imposed
 7    in  accordance with the provisions of Section 10-21 and shall
 8    be enforced by the court in a suit filed under Section 10-15.
 9    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-539,  eff.  6-1-98;
10    90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-790, eff. 8-14-98.)

11        (305 ILCS 5/10-11.2 new)
12        Sec. 10-11.2.  Administrative support  order  information
13    for State Case Registry.  When the Illinois Department enters
14    an  administrative  support  order  under  Section  10-8.1 or
15    Section 10-11, or  modifies  such  an  order,  the  custodial
16    parent  and  the  non-custodial  parent  shall provide to the
17    Illinois Department, and update as appropriate, the following
18    information  to  be  included  in  the  State  Case  Registry
19    established under Section 10-27:
20             (1)  The names of the  custodial  and  non-custodial
21        parents  and  of  the  child  or  children covered by the
22        order.
23             (2)  The  dates  of  birth  of   the  custodial  and
24        non-custodial  parents  and  of  the  child  or  children
25        covered by the order.
26             (3)  The social security numbers  of  the  custodial
27        and  non-custodial  parents  and of the child or children
28        covered by the order.
29             (4)  The residential and mailing addresses  for  the
30        custodial and non-custodial parents.
31             (5)  The  telephone  numbers  for  the custodial and
32        non-custodial parents.
33             (6)  The driver's license numbers for the  custodial
 
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 1        and non-custodial parents.
 2             (7)  The name, address, and telephone number of each
 3        parent's employer or employers.
 4             (8)  Any  other  information  that  may  be required
 5        under Title IV, Part D of  the  Social  Security  Act  or
 6        regulations promulgated thereunder.

 7        (305 ILCS 5/10-15) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-15)
 8        Sec.  10-15.  Enforcement of Administrative Order - Costs
 9    and Fees. If a responsible  relative  refuses,  neglects,  or
10    fails  to  comply  with  a  final  administrative  support or
11    reimbursement order of the Illinois Department entered by the
12    Child and Spouse Support Unit pursuant to Sections  10-11  or
13    10-11.1  or registered pursuant to Section 10-17.1, the Child
14    and Spouse Support Unit may file suit against the responsible
15    relative  or  relatives  to  secure   compliance   with   the
16    administrative order.
17        Suits  shall  be  instituted in the name of the People of
18    the State of Illinois on the relation of  the  Department  of
19    Public  Aid  of  the  State  of  Illinois  and  the spouse or
20    dependent children  for  whom  the  support  order  has  been
21    issued.
22        The   court  shall  order  the  payment  of  the  support
23    obligation, or orders for reimbursement of moneys for support
24    provided, directly to the Illinois Department but  the  order
25    shall   permit   the   Illinois   Department  to  direct  the
26    responsible relative or relatives to make payments of support
27    directly to the spouse or  dependent  children,  or  to  some
28    person  or  agency  in  his  or  their behalf, as provided in
29    Section 10-8 or 10-10, as applicable.
30        Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to  enforce  an
31    administrative   order   that  the  responsible  relative  is
32    unemployed, and support is sought on behalf of applicants for
33    or recipients of financial aid under Article IV of this  Code
 
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 1    or other persons who are given access to the child and spouse
 2    support services of this Article as provided in Section 10-1,
 3    the   court  may  order  the  responsible  relative  to  seek
 4    employment and report periodically to the court with a diary,
 5    listing  or  other  memorandum  of  his  or  her  efforts  in
 6    accordance with such order.  In addition, the court may order
 7    the unemployed responsible relative to report to the Illinois
 8    Department for participation in job search, training or  work
 9    programs established under Section 9-6 of this Code or to the
10    Illinois  Department  of  Employment  Security for job search
11    services or to make application with the local Jobs  Training
12    Partnership  Act  provider  for  participation in job search,
13    training or work programs.
14        Charges imposed in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of
15    Section  10-21 shall be enforced by the Court in a suit filed
16    under this Section.
17        To  the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section   are
18    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
19    Disbursement Unit under Sections 10-10.4 and  10-26  of  this
20    Code,  the  requirements pertaining to the State Disbursement
21    Unit shall apply.
22    (Source: P.A. 85-1440.)

23        (305 ILCS 5/10-16) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-16)
24        Sec.  10-16.    Judicial   enforcement   of   court   and
25    administrative  support  orders.)  Court  orders  entered  in
26    proceedings   under   Section  10-10  and  court  orders  for
27    enforcement of an administrative order  under  Section  10-15
28    and for the payment of money may be enforced by attachment as
29    for  contempt  against  the persons of the defendants, and in
30    addition, as other judgments for the payment  of  money,  and
31    costs  may be adjudged against the defendants and apportioned
32    among them; but if the complaint is dismissed, costs shall be
33    borne by the Illinois Department or  the  local  governmental
 
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 1    unit,  as  the  case  may  be.   If a responsible relative is
 2    directed  by  the   Illinois   Department,   or   the   local
 3    governmental  unit,  under  the  conditions stated in Section
 4    10-8, to make support payments directly to the person, or  to
 5    some  person or agency in his behalf, the court order entered
 6    against him under  this  Section  or  Section  10-10  may  be
 7    enforced as herein provided if he thereafter fails to furnish
 8    support  in accordance with its terms.  The State of Illinois
 9    shall not be required to make a deposit for or pay any  costs
10    or  fees  of  any  court or officer thereof in any proceeding
11    instituted under this Section.
12        The  provisions  of  the  Civil  Practice  Law,  and  all
13    amendments and modifications  thereof,  shall  apply  to  and
14    govern  all actions instituted under this Section and Section
15    10-10. In such actions proof that a person  is  an  applicant
16    for or recipient of public aid under any Article of this Code
17    shall be prima facie proof that he is a person in necessitous
18    circumstances  by  reason of infirmity, unemployment or other
19    cause depriving him of the means of a  livelihood  compatible
20    with health and well-being.
21        Payments  under  this  Section to the Illinois Department
22    pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
23    by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be  paid  into
24    the  Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments
25    under this  Section  to  the  Illinois  Department  shall  be
26    deposited  in  the  Public  Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.
27    Disbursements from  these  funds  shall  be  as  provided  in
28    Sections  12-9 and 12-10.2 of this Code. Payments received by
29    a local governmental unit shall be deposited in  that  unit's
30    General Assistance Fund.
31        In  addition  to  the penalties or punishment that may be
32    imposed  under  this  Section,  any  person   whose   conduct
33    constitutes  a  violation  of Section 1 of the Non-Support of
34    Spouse and Children Act may be prosecuted under that Section,
 
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 1    and a person convicted under that Section may be sentenced in
 2    accordance with that Section.  The sentence may  include  but
 3    need  not be limited to a requirement that the person perform
 4    community service under subsection (b)  of  that  Section  or
 5    participate  in  a  work alternative program under subsection
 6    (c) of that  Section.   A  person  may  not  be  required  to
 7    participate  in  a  work alternative program under subsection
 8    (c) of that Section if the person is currently  participating
 9    in a work program pursuant to Section 10-11.1 of this Code.
10        To   the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section  are
11    inconsistent with the requirements pertaining  to  the  State
12    Disbursement  Unit  under  Sections 10-10.4 and 10-26 of this
13    Code, the requirements pertaining to the  State  Disbursement
14    Unit shall apply.
15    (Source: P.A. 90-733, eff. 8-11-98.)

16        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.9)
17        Sec.  10-17.9.  Past  due  support  information  to State
18    Department of Revenue.
19        (a)  The Illinois Department  may  provide  by  rule  for
20    certification  to  the Illinois Department of Revenue of past
21    due support owed by responsible  relatives  under  a  support
22    order  entered  by  a court or administrative body of this or
23    any  other  State  on  behalf  of  resident  or  non-resident
24    persons.  The  rule  shall  provide  for  notice  to  and  an
25    opportunity   to   be  heard  by  each  responsible  relative
26    affected.  Any final administrative decision rendered by  the
27    Department  shall  be  reviewed  only under and in accordance
28    with the Administrative Review Law.  A  responsible  relative
29    may avoid certification to the Illinois Department of Revenue
30    by establishing a satisfactory repayment record as determined
31    by the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
32        (b)  A  certified past due support amount shall be final.
33    The  certified  amount  shall  be  payable  to  the  Illinois
 
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 1    Department  of  Revenue  upon  written  notification  of  the
 2    certification to the responsible  relative  by  the  Illinois
 3    Department of Revenue.
 4        (c)  In   the   event  a  responsible  relative  overpays
 5    pursuant to collection under this Section and the  applicable
 6    Sections  of  the  Illinois  Income  Tax Act, the overpayment
 7    shall be a credit against future support obligations.  If the
 8    current support obligation of the  responsible  relative  has
 9    terminated under  operation of law or court order, any moneys
10    overpaid  but still in the possession of the Department shall
11    be promptly returned to the responsible relative.
12        (d)  Except as otherwise provided in  this  Article,  any
13    child   support   delinquency   certified   to  the  Illinois
14    Department of Revenue shall be treated  as  a  child  support
15    delinquency for all other purposes, and any collection action
16    by the State's Attorney or the Illinois Department of Revenue
17    with  respect to any delinquency certified under this Article
18    shall have the same priority against  attachment,  execution,
19    assignment,  or other collection action as is provided by any
20    other provision of State law.
21        (e)  Any  child  support  delinquency  collected  by  the
22    Illinois Department of Revenue, including those amounts  that
23    result  in  overpayment of a child support delinquency, shall
24    be paid to the  State  Disbursement  Unit  established  under
25    Section  10-26  deposited  in,  or  transferred to, the Child
26    Support Enforcement Trust Fund.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 12-31-95.)

28        (305 ILCS 5/10-19) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-19)
29        Sec. 10-19.  (Support payments ordered under other  laws;
30    where   deposited.)   The   Illinois   Department  and  local
31    governmental  units  are  authorized  to   receive   payments
32    directed  by  court  order  for the support of recipients, as
33    provided in the following Acts:
 
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 1        1.  "Non-Support of Spouse and  Children  Act",  approved
 2    June 24, 1915, as amended,
 3        2.  "Illinois  Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act",
 4    as now or hereafter amended,
 5        3.  The Illinois Parentage Act, as amended,
 6        4.  "Revised Uniform Reciprocal  Enforcement  of  Support
 7    Act", approved August 28, 1969, as amended,
 8        5.  The  Juvenile  Court Act or the Juvenile Court Act of
 9    1987, as amended,
10        6.  The "Unified Code of Corrections", approved July  26,
11    1972, as amended,
12        7.  Part 7 of Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure,
13    as amended,
14        8.  Part 8 of Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure,
15    as amended, and
16        9.  Other  laws  which  may provide by judicial order for
17    direct payment of support moneys.
18        Payments under this Section to  the  Illinois  Department
19    pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
20    by  Title  IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be paid into
21    the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other  payments
22    under  this  Section  to  the  Illinois  Department  shall be
23    deposited in the Public  Assistance  Recoveries  Trust  Fund.
24    Disbursements  from  these  funds  shall  be  as  provided in
25    Sections 12-9 and 12-10.2 of this Code. Payments received  by
26    a  local  governmental unit shall be deposited in that unit's
27    General Assistance Fund.
28        To  the  extent  the  provisions  of  this  Section   are
29    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
30    Disbursement Unit under Sections 10-10.4 and  10-26  of  this
31    Code,  the  requirements pertaining to the State Disbursement
32    Unit shall apply.
33    (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)
 
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 1        (305 ILCS 5/10-26 new)
 2        Sec. 10-26. State Disbursement Unit.
 3        (a)  Effective October 1, 1999  the  Illinois  Department
 4    shall  establish a State Disbursement Unit in accordance with
 5    the requirements of Title IV-D of the  Social  Security  Act.
 6    The  Illinois Department shall enter into an agreement with a
 7    State or local governmental unit or private entity to perform
 8    the functions of the State Disbursement Unit as set forth  in
 9    this  Section.   The  purpose  of the State Disbursement Unit
10    shall be to collect and disburse support payments made  under
11    court and administrative support orders:
12             (1)  being  enforced  in  cases  in  which child and
13        spouse support services are  being  provided  under  this
14        Article X; and
15             (2)  in all cases in which the order for support was
16        entered  after  January 1, 1994, child and spouse support
17        services are not being provided under this Article X, and
18        in which support payments are made under  the  provisions
19        of the Income Withholding for Support Act.
20        (b)  All  payments  received  by  the  State Disbursement
21    Unit:
22             (1)  shall be deposited into an account obtained  by
23        the  State or local  governmental unit or private entity,
24        as the case may be, and
25             (2)  distributed  and   disbursed   by   the   State
26        Disbursement  Unit,  in accordance with the directions of
27        the Illinois Department, pursuant to Title  IV-D  of  the
28        Social   Security   Act  and  rules  promulgated  by  the
29        Department.
30        (c)  All  support  payments  assigned  to  the   Illinois
31    Department under Article X of this Code and rules promulgated
32    by the Illinois Department that are disbursed to the Illinois
33    Department  by the State Disbursement Unit shall be paid into
34    the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund.
 
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 1        (d)  If  the  agreement   with   the   State   or   local
 2    governmental  unit  or  private  entity  provided for in this
 3    Section is not in effect for any reason, the Department shall
 4    perform the functions of the State Disbursement Unit  as  set
 5    forth in this Section for a maximum of 12 months.


 6        (305 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-9)
 7        Sec.  12-9.   Public  Assistance  Recoveries  Trust Fund;
 8    uses. The  Public  Assistance  Recoveries  Trust  Fund  shall
 9    consist  of  recoveries authorized by this Code in respect to
10    applicants or recipients under Articles III, IV,  V,  VI  and
11    VII,  including  recoveries  from  the  estates  of  deceased
12    recipients, and payments received by the Illinois  Department
13    under  Sections  10-3.1, 10-8, 10-10, 10-16, and 10-19 except
14    those pursuant  to  the  Child  Support  Enforcement  Program
15    established  by  Title  IV-D  of  the Social Security Act and
16    required  to  be  paid  to  the   State   Disbursement   Unit
17    established  under  Section  10-26  of  this Code or into the
18    Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund under Section 12-10.2 of
19    this Code, that are required by such Sections to be paid into
20    the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.  Until  July  1,
21    1998,  this  fund  shall  be  held  by the State treasurer as
22    ex-officio custodian outside the State treasury.  After  June
23    30,  1998,  the  fund  shall be held as a special fund in the
24    State treasury.
25        Disbursements from this fund shall be only  (1)  for  the
26    reimbursement of claims  collected by the Illinois Department
27    through  error  or  mistake,  (2)  for  payment to persons or
28    agencies designated as payees or co-payees on any instrument,
29    whether  or  not  negotiable,  delivered  to   the   Illinois
30    Department  as a recovery under this Section, such payment to
31    be in proportion to the respective interests of the payees in
32    the amount so collected, (3) for payments  to non-recipients,
33    or to former recipients of financial aid of  the  collections
 
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 1    which  are  made in their behalf under Article X except those
 2    pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program established
 3    by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act required to be paid
 4    from the State Disbursement Unit Revolving Fund under Section
 5    12-8.1 of this Code or from  the  Child  Support  Enforcement
 6    Trust  Fund  under  Section  12-10.2  of  this  Code, (4) for
 7    payment to  local  governmental  units  of  support  payments
 8    collected by the Illinois Department pursuant to an agreement
 9    under  Section  10-3.1,  (5)  for  payment  of administrative
10    expenses incurred in performing the activities authorized  by
11    Article   X  except  those  pursuant  to  the  Child  Support
12    Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the  Social
13    Security  Act  required  to  be  paid  from the Child Support
14    Enforcement Trust Fund under Section 12-10.2  of  this  Code,
15    (6)  for  payment  of  fees  to  persons  or  agencies in the
16    performance of  activities  pursuant  to  the  collection  of
17    monies  owed  the  State  except those monies pursuant to the
18    Child Support Enforcement Program established by  Title  IV-D
19    of the Social Security Act required to be paid from the Child
20    Support  Enforcement Trust Fund under Section 12-10.2 of this
21    Code, (7) for payments of any amounts which are  reimbursable
22    to  the  Federal  government which are required to be paid by
23    State warrant by either the State or Federal  government  and
24    (8)  for  disbursements  to  attorneys or advocates for legal
25    representation  in  an  appeal  of  any  claim  for   federal
26    Supplemental    Security    Income    benefits    before   an
27    administrative law judge as provided for in Section  3-13  of
28    this  Code.  Until July 1, 1998, disbursements from this fund
29    shall be by  warrants  drawn  by  the  State  Comptroller  as
30    receipt  of  vouchers  duly  executed  and  certified  by the
31    Illinois Department. After June 30, 1998, disbursements  from
32    this  fund  for  purposes  of items (5), (6), and (8) of this
33    paragraph shall be subject to appropriations from the fund to
34    the Illinois Department.
 
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 1        The balance in  this  fund  on  the  first  day  of  each
 2    calendar  quarter,  after  payment  therefrom of  any amounts
 3    reimbursable to the Federal Government, and minus the  amount
 4    reasonably anticipated to be needed to make the disbursements
 5    during  that  quarter  authorized  by  this Section, shall be
 6    certified by the Director  of  the  Illinois  Department  and
 7    transferred  by  the State Comptroller to the General Revenue
 8    Fund in the State Treasury within 30 days of the first day of
 9    each calendar quarter.
10    (Source: P.A. 90-255, eff. 1-1-98.)

11        (305 ILCS 5/12-10.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-10.2)
12        Sec. 12-10.2.  The Child Support Enforcement Trust  Fund,
13    to  be  held  by  the State Treasurer as ex-officio custodian
14    outside the State Treasury, pursuant  to  the  Child  Support
15    Enforcement  Program  established by Title IV-D of the Social
16    Security Act, shall  consist  of  (1)  all  support  payments
17    assigned  to  the Illinois Department under Article X of this
18    Code and rules promulgated by the  Illinois  Department  that
19    are  disbursed  to  the  Illinois  Department  by  the  State
20    Disbursement Unit established under Section 10-26 received by
21    the Illinois Department under Sections 10-8, 10-10, 10-16 and
22    10-19  that are required by such Sections to be paid into the
23    Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund,  and  (2)  all  federal
24    grants  received  by  the Illinois Department funded by Title
25    IV-D of the Social Security Act, except those  federal  funds
26    received  under  the  Title IV-D program as reimbursement for
27    expenditures from the General Revenue Fund, and (3) incentive
28    payments received  by  the  Illinois  Department  from  other
29    states  or  political  subdivisions  of  other states for the
30    enforcement and collection by the Department of  an  assigned
31    child  support  obligation  in behalf of such other states or
32    their political subdivisions pursuant to  the  provisions  of
33    Title  IV-D  of  the  Social  Security Act, and (4) incentive
 
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 1    payments retained by the Illinois Department from the amounts
 2    which otherwise would be paid to the  Federal  government  to
 3    reimburse  the  Federal  government's  share  of  the support
 4    collection for the Department's enforcement and collection of
 5    an assigned support obligation on  behalf  of  the  State  of
 6    Illinois  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of Title IV-D of the
 7    Social  Security  Act,  and  (5)  all  fees  charged  by  the
 8    Department  for  child  support  enforcement   services,   as
 9    authorized  under  Title  IV-D of the Social Security Act and
10    Section 10-1 of this Code, and any other fees, costs,  fines,
11    recoveries, or penalties provided for by State or federal law
12    and  received  by  the  Department  under  the  Child Support
13    Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the  Social
14    Security Act, and (6) all amounts appropriated by the General
15    Assembly for deposit into the Fund.
16        Disbursements  from  this  Fund  shall  be  only  for the
17    following  purposes:  (1)  for  the  reimbursement  of  funds
18    received by the Illinois Department through error or mistake,
19    and (2)  (blank)  for  payments  to  non-recipients,  current
20    recipients  and former recipients of financial aid of support
21    payments received on their behalf under  Article  X  of  this
22    Code,  pursuant to the provisions of Title IV-D of the Social
23    Security Act and rules promulgated by the Department, and (3)
24    for payment of any administrative expenses, including payment
25    to the Health Insurance  Reserve  Fund  for  group  insurance
26    costs  at  the  rate  certified  by the Department of Central
27    Management Services, except those required to  be  paid  from
28    the  General Revenue Fund, including personal and contractual
29    services, incurred in performing the  Title  IV-D  activities
30    authorized  by  Article  X  of  this  Code,  and  (4) for the
31    reimbursement of the Public  Assistance  Emergency  Revolving
32    Fund  for  expenditures  made  from that Fund for payments to
33    former recipients of public aid for child support made to the
34    Illinois Department when the former public aid  recipient  is
 
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 1    legally  entitled  to  all  or  part  of  the  child  support
 2    payments,  pursuant  to  the  provisions of Title IV-D of the
 3    Social Security Act, and (5) for  the  payment  of  incentive
 4    amounts  owed  to  other  states or political subdivisions of
 5    other states that enforce and  collect  an  assigned  support
 6    obligation on behalf of the State of Illinois pursuant to the
 7    provisions  of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, and (6)
 8    for the  payment  of  incentive  amounts  owed  to  political
 9    subdivisions  of  the  State  of  Illinois  that  enforce and
10    collect an assigned support obligation on behalf of the State
11    pursuant to the  provisions  of  Title  IV-D  of  the  Social
12    Security  Act,  and (7) for payments of any amounts which are
13    reimbursable to the Federal government which are required  to
14    be  paid  by  State  warrant  by  either the State or Federal
15    government. Disbursements from this Fund shall be by warrants
16    drawn by the State Comptroller on receipt  of  vouchers  duly
17    executed  and  certified  by  the  Illinois Department or any
18    other State agency that receives an  appropriation  from  the
19    Fund.
20    (Source:  P.A.  89-21,  eff.  7-1-95;  89-499,  eff. 6-28-96;
21    90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-587, eff. 6-4-98.)

22        Section 22.  The Code of Civil Procedure  is  amended  by
23    changing Section 2-101 as follows:

24        (735 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-101)
25        Sec.  2-101.   Generally. Except as otherwise provided in
26    this Act, every action must be commenced (1) in the county of
27    residence of any defendant who is joined in  good  faith  and
28    with  probable  cause for the purpose of obtaining a judgment
29    against him or her and not solely for the purpose  of  fixing
30    venue  in  that  county,  or  (2)  in the county in which the
31    transaction or some part thereof occurred out  of  which  the
32    cause of action arose.
 
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 1        If  a  check, draft, money order, or other instrument for
 2    the payment of child support payable to or delivered  to  the
 3    State  Disbursement  Unit  established under Section 10-26 of
 4    the Illinois Public Aid Code  is  returned  by  the  bank  or
 5    depository  for  any reason, venue for the enforcement of any
 6    criminal proceedings or civil cause of  action  for  recovery
 7    and  attorney fees shall be in the county where the principal
 8    office of the State Disbursement Unit is located.
 9        If all defendants  are  nonresidents  of  the  State,  an
10    action may be commenced in any county.
11        If the corporate limits of a city, village or town extend
12    into  more  than  one  county, then the venue of an action or
13    proceeding instituted by that  municipality  to  enforce  any
14    fine,  imprisonment,  penalty  or forfeiture for violation of
15    any ordinance of that municipality, regardless of the  county
16    in  which  the violation was committed or occurred, may be in
17    the appropriate court (i) in the county wherein the office of
18    the clerk of the municipality  is  located  or  (ii)  in  any
19    county  in  which  at  least  35% of the territory within the
20    municipality's corporate limits is located.
21    (Source: P.A. 89-28, eff. 1-1-96.)

22        Section 25.  The Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
23    Marriage  Act  is  amended by changing Sections 507, 705, and
24    709 and adding Sections 505.3 and 507.1 as follows:

25        (750 ILCS 5/505.3 new)
26        Sec. 505.3.  Information to State Case Registry.
27        (a)  When an order for support  is  entered  or  modified
28    under  this Act, the clerk of the circuit court shall, within
29    5  business  days,  provide  to  the  State   Case   Registry
30    established  under  Section  10-27 of the Illinois Public Aid
31    Code the court docket number and county in which the order is
32    entered or modified and the following information, which  the
 
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 1    parties shall disclose to the court:
 2             (1)  The  names  of  the custodial and non-custodial
 3        parents and of the  child  or  children  covered  by  the
 4        order.
 5             (2)  The   dates  of  birth  of  the  custodial  and
 6        non-custodial  parents  and  of  the  child  or  children
 7        covered by the order.
 8             (3)  The social security numbers  of  the  custodial
 9        and  non-custodial  parents  and of the child or children
10        covered by the order.
11             (4)  The residential and mailing addresses  for  the
12        custodial and non-custodial parents.
13             (5)  The  telephone  numbers  for  the custodial and
14        non-custodial parents.
15             (6)  The driver's license numbers for the  custodial
16        and non-custodial parents.
17             (7)  The name, address, and telephone number of each
18        parent's employer or employers.
19        (b)  When  a  child  support order is entered or modified
20    for a case in which a party is  receiving  child  and  spouse
21    support  services  under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
22    Code, the clerk shall provide the State  Case  Registry  with
23    the following information:
24             (1)  The  information specified in subsection (a) of
25        this Section.
26             (2)  The amount of monthly or other periodic support
27        owed  under  the  order  and  other  amounts,   including
28        arrearages, interest, or late payment penalties and fees,
29        due or overdue under the order.
30             (3)  Any  amounts  described  in  subdivision (2) of
31        this subsection (b) that have been received by the clerk.
32             (4)  The distribution of the amounts received by the
33        clerk.
34        (c)  A party shall report to the  clerk  of  the  circuit
 
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 1    court  changes in information required to the disclosed under
 2    this Section  within 5 business days of the change.
 3        (d)  To the extent that updated  information  is  in  the
 4    clerk's  possession,  the  clerk shall provide updates of the
 5    information specified  in  subsection  (b)  of  this  Section
 6    within  5  business  days  after  the  Illinois Department of
 7    Public Aid's request for that updated information.

 8        (750 ILCS 5/507) (from Ch. 40, par. 507)
 9        Sec. 507.  Payment of maintenance or support to court.
10        (a)  In actions instituted  under  this  Act,  the  court
11    shall  order that maintenance and support payments be made to
12    the clerk of court as trustee for remittance  to  the  person
13    entitled  to receive the payments.  However, the court in its
14    discretion  may  direct  otherwise  where  circumstances   so
15    warrant.
16    in accordance with the Income Withholding for Support
17        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
18    transmission  from  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid to
19    the clerk of the court that a person who is receiving support
20    payments under this Section is receiving services  under  the
21    Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D
22    of the Social Security Act, any support payments subsequently
23    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
24    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
25    of Public Aid until the Department gives notice to the  clerk
26    of  the  court  to cease the transmittal. After providing the
27    notification authorized under this  paragraph,  the  Illinois
28    Department  of  Public  Aid  shall  be entitled as a party to
29    notice of any further proceedings in the case.  The clerk  of
30    the  court  shall  file  a copy of the Illinois Department of
31    Public Aid's notification in the court file.  The failure  of
32    the  clerk  to  file  a copy of the notification in the court
33    file shall not, however, affect the  Illinois  Department  of
 
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 1    Public Aid's right to receive notice of further proceedings.
 2        (b)  The  clerk  of  court shall maintain records listing
 3    the amount of payments, the date payments are required to  be
 4    made  and  the names and addresses of the parties affected by
 5    the order. For those cases in which support is payable to the
 6    clerk of the circuit court for transmittal  to  the  Illinois
 7    Department  of  Public  Aid  by  order  of  the court or upon
 8    notification of the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid,  and
 9    the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid collects support by
10    assignment, offset, withholding, deduction or  other  process
11    permitted  by  law,  the Illinois Department shall notify the
12    clerk of  the  date  and  amount  of  such  collection.  Upon
13    notification,  the  clerk  shall record the collection on the
14    payment record for the case.
15        (c)  The parties affected by the order shall  inform  the
16    clerk of court of any change of address or of other condition
17    that may affect the administration of the order.
18        (d)  The  provisions  of  this Section shall not apply to
19    cases that come under the provisions of Sections 709  through
20    712.
21        (e)  To  the  extent  the  provisions of this Section are
22    inconsistent with the requirements pertaining  to  the  State
23    Disbursement Unit under Section 507.1 of this Act and Section
24    10-26  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the requirements
25    pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
26    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-673,  eff.  1-1-99;
27    90-790, eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

28        (750 ILCS 5/507.1 new)
29        Sec. 507.1. Payment  of  Support  to  State  Disbursement
30    Unit.
31        (a)  As used in this Section:
32        "Order  for  support",  "obligor", "obligee", and "payor"
33    mean those terms as defined in  the  Income  Withholding  for
 
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 1    Support Act.
 2        (b)  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of this Act to
 3    the contrary, each order for support entered or  modified  on
 4    or  after October 1, 1999 shall require that support payments
 5    be made to the  State  Disbursement  Unit  established  under
 6    Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code if:
 7             (1)  a  party  to  the  order is receiving child and
 8        spouse support services under Article X of  the  Illinois
 9        Public Aid Code; or
10             (2)  no  party  to  the order is receiving child and
11        spouse support services, but  the  support  payments  are
12        made through income withholding.
13        (c)  The  Illinois Department of Public Aid shall provide
14    notice to the obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's
15    payor to make support payments to the State Disbursement Unit
16    if:
17             (1)  the  order  for  support  was  entered   before
18        October  1,  1999,  and a party to the order is receiving
19        child and spouse support services under Article X of  the
20        Illinois Public Aid Code; or
21             (2)  the order for support was entered after January
22        1,  1994,  no  party  to the order is receiving child and
23        spouse support services, and  the  support  payments  are
24        being made through income withholding.
25        (d)  The notice required under subsection (c) may be sent
26    by  ordinary  mail, certified mail, return receipt requested,
27    facsimile transmission, or other electronic process,  or  may
28    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
29    by  law for service of a summons.  The Illinois Department of
30    Public Aid shall provide a copy of the notice to the  obligee
31    and to the clerk of the court.

32        (750 ILCS 5/705) (from Ch. 40, par. 705)
33        Sec.  705.   Support  payments;  receiving and disbursing
 
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 1    agents.
 2        (1)  The provisions of this Section shall  apply,  except
 3    as provided in Sections 709 through 712.
 4        (2)  In  a  dissolution  of  marriage  action  filed in a
 5    county of less than 3 million population in which an order or
 6    judgment for child support is entered, and  in  supplementary
 7    proceedings  in  any such county to enforce or vary the terms
 8    of such order or  judgment  arising  out  of  an  action  for
 9    dissolution  of  marriage  filed  in  such county, the court,
10    except as it otherwise orders, under subsection (4)  of  this
11    Section,  may  direct  that child support payments be made to
12    the clerk of the court.
13        (3)  In a dissolution of marriage  action  filed  in  any
14    county  of  3 million or more population in which an order or
15    judgment for child support is entered, and  in  supplementary
16    proceedings  in  any such county to enforce or vary the terms
17    of such order or  judgment  arising  out  of  an  action  for
18    dissolution  of  marriage  filed  in  such county, the court,
19    except as it otherwise orders under subsection  (4)  of  this
20    Section,  may  direct  that  child  support  payments be made
21    either to the clerk of the court  or  to  the  Court  Service
22    Division  of  the County Department of Public Aid.  After the
23    effective date of this Act, the court, except as it otherwise
24    orders under subsection (4) of this Section, may direct  that
25    child  support  payments  be  made either to the clerk of the
26    court or to the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
27        (4)  In a dissolution of marriage action or supplementary
28    proceedings involving maintenance or child support  payments,
29    or  both,  to  persons  who  are  recipients of aid under the
30    Illinois Public Aid Code, the court shall  direct  that  such
31    payments be made to (a) the Illinois Department of Public Aid
32    if the persons are recipients under Articles III, IV, or V of
33    the  Code, or (b) the local governmental unit responsible for
34    their support if they are recipients under Articles VI or VII
 
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 1    of the Code. In accordance with federal law and  regulations,
 2    the Illinois Department of Public Aid may continue to collect
 3    current  maintenance  payments  or child support payments, or
 4    both, after those persons cease to receive public  assistance
 5    and  until  termination  of  services  under Article X of the
 6    Illinois Public Aid Code.  The Illinois Department of  Public
 7    Aid shall pay the net amount collected to those persons after
 8    deducting  any costs incurred in making the collection or any
 9    collection fee from the amount of  any  recovery  made.   The
10    order  shall  permit the Illinois Department of Public Aid or
11    the local governmental unit, as the case may  be,  to  direct
12    that  payments  be  made  directly  to the former spouse, the
13    children, or both, or to  some  person  or  agency  in  their
14    behalf,  upon  removal  of the former spouse or children from
15    the public aid rolls or upon termination  of  services  under
16    Article  X  of  the  Illinois  Public Aid Code; and upon such
17    direction, the  Illinois  Department  or  local  governmental
18    unit,  as the case requires, shall give notice of such action
19    to the court in writing or by electronic transmission.
20        (5)  All clerks  of  the  court  and  the  Court  Service
21    Division  of a County Department of Public Aid and, after the
22    effective date of this Act, all clerks of the court  and  the
23    Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid, receiving child support
24    payments under subsections (2) and (3) of this Section  shall
25    disburse  the  payments  to  the  person  or persons entitled
26    thereto under the terms of the order or judgment.  They shall
27    establish and maintain current records of all moneys received
28    and disbursed and of defaults and delinquencies  in  required
29    payments.  The  court, by order or rule, shall make provision
30    for the carrying out of these duties.
31    in effect in  accordance  with  the  Income  Withholding  for
32    Support
33        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
34    transmission  from  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid to
 
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 1    the clerk of the court that a person who is receiving support
 2    payments under this Section is receiving services  under  the
 3    Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D
 4    of the Social Security Act, any support payments subsequently
 5    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
 6    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
 7    of Public Aid until the Department gives notice to the  clerk
 8    of  the  court  to cease the transmittal. After providing the
 9    notification authorized under this  paragraph,  the  Illinois
10    Department  of  Public  Aid  shall  be entitled as a party to
11    notice of any further proceedings in the case.  The clerk  of
12    the  court  shall  file  a copy of the Illinois Department of
13    Public Aid's notification in the court file.  The failure  of
14    the  clerk  to  file  a copy of the notification in the court
15    file shall not, however, affect the  Illinois  Department  of
16    Public Aid's right to receive notice of further proceedings.
17        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
18    Public  Aid pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program
19    established by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be
20    paid into the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other
21    payments under this Section to  the  Illinois  Department  of
22    Public  Aid  shall  be  deposited  in  the  Public Assistance
23    Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements from these  funds  shall
24    be  as  provided  in  the  Illinois Public Aid Code. Payments
25    received by a local governmental unit shall be  deposited  in
26    that  unit's  General  Assistance  Fund.  Any  order of court
27    directing payment of child support to a clerk of court or the
28    Court Service Division of a County Department of Public  Aid,
29    which order has been entered on or after August 14, 1961, and
30    prior  to  the  effective date of this Act, may be amended by
31    the court  in  line  with  this  Act;  and  orders  involving
32    payments  of  maintenance  or  child support to recipients of
33    public aid may in like manner be amended to conform  to  this
34    Act.
 
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 1        (6)  No  filing  fee  or  costs  will  be required in any
 2    action brought at the request of the Illinois  Department  of
 3    Public  Aid  in  any proceeding under this Act.  However, any
 4    such fees or costs may be assessed by the court  against  the
 5    respondent   in   the   court's   order  of  support  or  any
 6    modification thereof in a proceeding under this Act.
 7        (7)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
 8    the clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to  the
 9    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid by order of court or upon
10    notification by the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid,  the
11    clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4 working days
12    of  receipt, to insure that funds are available for immediate
13    distribution by  the  Department  to  the  person  or  entity
14    entitled  thereto  in  accordance with standards of the Child
15    Support Enforcement Program established under Title  IV-D  of
16    the   Social  Security  Act.   The  clerk  shall  notify  the
17    Department of the date of receipt and amount thereof  at  the
18    time  of  transmittal.   Where  the clerk has entered into an
19    agreement of cooperation with the Department  to  record  the
20    terms  of  child  support orders and payments made thereunder
21    directly into  the  Department's  automated  data  processing
22    system,  the  clerk shall account for, transmit and otherwise
23    distribute child support payments  in  accordance  with  such
24    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
25        In  any  action  filed  in  a county with a population of
26    1,000,000  or  less,  the  court  shall  assess  against  the
27    respondent in any order of maintenance or child  support  any
28    sum  up to $36 annually authorized by ordinance of the county
29    board to be collected by the clerk of the court as costs  for
30    administering  the collection and disbursement of maintenance
31    and child support payments.  Such sum shall be in addition to
32    and separate from amounts ordered to be paid  as  maintenance
33    or child support.
34        (8)  To  the  extent  the  provisions of this Section are
 
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 1    inconsistent with the requirements pertaining  to  the  State
 2    Disbursement Unit under Section 507.1 of this Act and Section
 3    10-26  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the requirements
 4    pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
 5    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-673,  eff.  1-1-99;
 6    90-790, eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

 7        (750 ILCS 5/709) (from Ch. 40, par. 709)
 8        Sec. 709.  Mandatory child support payments to clerk.
 9        (a)  As of January 1, 1982, child support orders  entered
10    in  any  county  covered  by  this  subsection  shall be made
11    pursuant to the provisions of Sections  709  through  712  of
12    this  Act.   For  purposes of these Sections, the term "child
13    support payment"  or  "payment"  shall  include  any  payment
14    ordered to be made solely for the purpose of the support of a
15    child  or children or any payment ordered for general support
16    which includes  any  amount  for  support  of  any  child  or
17    children.
18        The  provisions  of  Sections  709  through  712 shall be
19    applicable to any county with a population of  2  million  or
20    more and to any other county which notifies the Supreme Court
21    of  its  desire  to  be included within the coverage of these
22    Sections and is certified pursuant to Supreme Court Rules.
23        The  effective  date  of  inclusion,  however,  shall  be
24    subject to approval of the application for  reimbursement  of
25    the  costs of the support program by the Department of Public
26    Aid as provided in Section 712.
27        (b)  In any proceeding for  a  dissolution  of  marriage,
28    legal  separation,  or declaration of invalidity of marriage,
29    or in any supplementary proceedings in which  a  judgment  or
30    modification  thereof  for  the  payment  of child support is
31    entered on or after January 1, 1982, in any county covered by
32    Sections 709 through 712, and the person entitled to  payment
33    is receiving a grant of financial aid under Article IV of the
 
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 1    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or has applied and qualified for
 2    support services under Section 10-1 of that Code,  the  court
 3    shall direct:  (1) that such payments be made to the clerk of
 4    the  court  and  (2)  that  the  parties  affected shall each
 5    thereafter notify the clerk  of  any  change  of  address  or
 6    change in other conditions that may affect the administration
 7    of  the  order,  including  the  fact  that  a  party who was
 8    previously not on public aid has become a recipient of public
 9    aid, within 10 days of such change.  All notices sent to  the
10    obligor's  last known address on file with the clerk shall be
11    deemed sufficient to proceed with enforcement pursuant to the
12    provisions of Sections 709 through 712.
13        In all other cases, the court may direct that payments be
14    made to the clerk of the court.
15        (c)  Except  as  provided  in  subsection  (d)  of   this
16    Section,  the clerk shall disburse the payments to the person
17    or persons entitled thereto under the terms of the  order  or
18    judgment.
19        (d)  The court shall determine, prior to the entry of the
20    support  order, if the party who is to receive the support is
21    presently receiving public aid or has a  current  application
22    for  public  aid  pending  and shall enter the finding on the
23    record.
24        If the person entitled to payment is a recipient  of  aid
25    under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid Code, the clerk, upon being
26    informed  of  this  fact  by  finding  of   the   court,   by
27    notification  by  the  party  entitled  to  payment,  by  the
28    Illinois   Department   of   Public   Aid  or  by  the  local
29    governmental unit, shall  make  all  payments  to:   (1)  the
30    Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  if  the  person  is  a
31    recipient  under Article III, IV, or V of the Code or (2) the
32    local governmental unit responsible for his or her support if
33    the person is a recipient under Article  VI  or  VII  of  the
34    Code.  In  accordance  with  federal law and regulations, the
 
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 1    Illinois Department of Public Aid  may  continue  to  collect
 2    current  maintenance  payments  or child support payments, or
 3    both, after those persons cease to receive public  assistance
 4    and  until  termination  of  services  under Article X of the
 5    Illinois Public Aid Code.  The Illinois Department of  Public
 6    Aid shall pay the net amount collected to those persons after
 7    deducting  any costs incurred in making the collection or any
 8    collection fee from the amount of  any  recovery  made.  Upon
 9    termination  of  public  aid  payments to such a recipient or
10    termination of services  under  Article  X  of  the  Illinois
11    Public Aid Code, the Illinois Department of Public Aid or the
12    appropriate local governmental unit shall notify the clerk in
13    writing  or  by  electronic  transmission that all subsequent
14    payments are to be  sent  directly  to  the  person  entitled
15    thereto.
16        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
17    transmission  from  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid to
18    the clerk of the court that a person who is receiving support
19    payments under this Section is receiving services  under  the
20    Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D
21    of the Social Security Act, any support payments subsequently
22    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
23    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
24    of Public Aid until the Department gives notice to the  clerk
25    of  the  court  to cease the transmittal. After providing the
26    notification authorized under this  paragraph,  the  Illinois
27    Department  of  Public  Aid  shall  be entitled as a party to
28    notice of any further proceedings in the case.  The clerk  of
29    the  court  shall  file  a copy of the Illinois Department of
30    Public Aid's notification in the court file.  The failure  of
31    the  clerk  to  file  a copy of the notification in the court
32    file shall not, however, affect the  Illinois  Department  of
33    Public Aid's right to receive notice of further proceedings.
34        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
 
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 1    Public  Aid pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program
 2    established by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be
 3    paid into the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other
 4    payments under this Section to  the  Illinois  Department  of
 5    Public  Aid  shall  be  deposited  in  the  Public Assistance
 6    Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements from these  funds  shall
 7    be  as  provided  in  the  Illinois Public Aid Code. Payments
 8    received by a local governmental unit shall be  deposited  in
 9    that unit's General Assistance Fund.
10        (e)  Any  order  or judgment may be amended by the court,
11    upon its own motion or upon the motion of  either  party,  to
12    conform  with  the  provisions  of  Sections 709 through 712,
13    either as to the requirement of making payments to the  clerk
14    or, where payments are already being made to the clerk, as to
15    the statutory fees provided for under Section 711.
16        (f)  The clerk may invest in any interest bearing account
17    or  in  any securities, monies collected for the benefit of a
18    payee,  where  such  payee  cannot  be  found;  however,  the
19    investment may be only for the period until the clerk is able
20    to locate and present the payee with such monies.  The  clerk
21    may  invest  in  any  interest  bearing  account,  or  in any
22    securities, monies collected for the  benefit  of  any  other
23    payee; however, this does not alter the clerk's obligation to
24    make  payments to the payee in a timely manner.  Any interest
25    or capital gains accrued shall be  for  the  benefit  of  the
26    county and shall be paid into the special fund established in
27    subsection (b) of Section 711.
28        (g)  The  clerk  shall  establish  and maintain a payment
29    record of all monies received and disbursed and  such  record
30    shall  constitute  prima  facie  evidence of such payment and
31    non-payment, as the case may be.
32        (h)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
33    the clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to  the
34    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid by order of court or upon
 
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 1    notification by the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid,  the
 2    clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4 working days
 3    of  receipt, to insure that funds are available for immediate
 4    distribution by  the  Department  to  the  person  or  entity
 5    entitled  thereto  in  accordance with standards of the Child
 6    Support Enforcement Program established under Title  IV-D  of
 7    the   Social  Security  Act.   The  clerk  shall  notify  the
 8    Department of the date of receipt and amount thereof  at  the
 9    time  of  transmittal.   Where  the clerk has entered into an
10    agreement of cooperation with the Department  to  record  the
11    terms  of  child  support orders and payments made thereunder
12    directly into  the  Department's  automated  data  processing
13    system,  the  clerk shall account for, transmit and otherwise
14    distribute child support payments  in  accordance  with  such
15    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
16        (i)  To  the  extent  the  provisions of this Section are
17    inconsistent with the requirements pertaining  to  the  State
18    Disbursement Unit under Section 507.1 of this Act and Section
19    10-26  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the requirements
20    pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
21    (Source: P.A. 87-1252; 88-687, eff. 1-24-95.)

22        Section 30.  The Non-Support of Spouse and  Children  Act
23    is  amended  by  changing Section 2.1 and adding Sections 2.2
24    and 12.2 as follows:

25        (750 ILCS 15/2.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 1105)
26        Sec. 2.1.  Support  payments;  receiving  and  disbursing
27    agents.
28        (1)  In  actions  instituted  under this Act on and after
29    August 14, 1961, involving a minor  child  or  children,  the
30    Court,  except  in  actions instituted on or after August 26,
31    1969, in which the  support  payments  are  in  behalf  of  a
32    recipient  of  aid  under the Illinois Public Aid Code, shall
 
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 1    direct that moneys ordered  to  be  paid  for  support  under
 2    Sections  3  and  4 of this Act shall be paid to the clerk of
 3    the court in counties of less than 3 million population,  and
 4    in  counties of 3 million or more population, to the clerk or
 5    probation officer of  the  court  or  to  the  Court  Service
 6    Division  of  the County Department of Public Aid.  After the
 7    effective date of this amendatory  Act  of  1975,  the  court
 8    shall direct that such support moneys be paid to the clerk or
 9    probation  officer  or the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
10    However, the court in its  discretion  may  direct  otherwise
11    where  exceptional circumstances so warrant. If payment is to
12    be made to persons other than the clerk or probation officer,
13    the Court Service Division of the County Department of Public
14    Aid, or the Illinois Department of Public Aid,  the  judgment
15    or  order  of  support  shall  set  forth  the  facts  of the
16    exceptional circumstances.
17        (2)  In actions instituted after August 26,  1969,  where
18    the  support  payments are in behalf of spouses, children, or
19    both, who are recipients of aid under the Illinois Public Aid
20    Code, the court shall order the payments to be made  directly
21    to (1) the Illinois Department of Public Aid if the person is
22    a  recipient  under Articles III, IV or V of the Code, or (2)
23    to the local governmental unit responsible for the support of
24    the person if he or she is a recipient under Articles  VI  or
25    VII   of  the  Code.  In  accordance  with  federal  law  and
26    regulations,  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  may
27    continue to collect current  maintenance  payments  or  child
28    support  payments,  or  both,  after  those  persons cease to
29    receive public assistance and until termination  of  services
30    under  Article  X  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code.  The
31    Illinois Department of Public Aid shall pay  the  net  amount
32    collected to those persons after deducting any costs incurred
33    in  making  the  collection  or  any  collection fee from the
34    amount of any recovery  made.  The  order  shall  permit  the
 
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 1    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid or the local governmental
 2    unit, as the case may be, to direct that support payments  be
 3    made  directly  to  the spouse, children, or both, or to some
 4    person or agency in their behalf, upon removal of the  spouse
 5    or  children from the public aid rolls or upon termination of
 6    services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code; and
 7    upon such direction, the Illinois  Department  or  the  local
 8    governmental unit, as the case requires, shall give notice of
 9    such  action  to  the  court  in  writing  or  by  electronic
10    transmission.
11        (3)  The   clerks,  probation  officers,  and  the  Court
12    Service Division of the County Department of  Public  Aid  in
13    counties  of  3  million  or  more population, and, after the
14    effective date of this amendatory Act of  1975,  the  clerks,
15    probation  officers,  and  the  Illinois Department of Public
16    Aid, shall disburse moneys paid to  them  to  the  person  or
17    persons  entitled thereto under the order of the Court.  They
18    shall establish and maintain current records  of  all  moneys
19    received  and  disbursed and of delinquencies and defaults in
20    required payments.  The Court, by order or rule,  shall  make
21    provision for the carrying out of these duties.
22    in accordance with the Income Withholding for Support
23        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
24    transmission  from  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid to
25    the clerk of the court that a person who is receiving support
26    payments under this Section is receiving services  under  the
27    Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D
28    of the Social Security Act, any support payments subsequently
29    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
30    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
31    of Public Aid until the Department gives notice to cease  the
32    transmittal.  After  providing  the  notification  authorized
33    under  this  paragraph, the Illinois Department of Public Aid
34    shall be entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of  any  further
 
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 1    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
 2    copy  of the Illinois Department of Public Aid's notification
 3    in the court file.  The failure of the clerk to file  a  copy
 4    of  the  notification  in  the court file shall not, however,
 5    affect the Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid's  right  to
 6    receive notice of further proceedings.
 7        (4)  Payments   under   this   Section  to  the  Illinois
 8    Department of  Public  Aid  pursuant  to  the  Child  Support
 9    Enforcement  Program  established by Title IV-D of the Social
10    Security Act shall be paid into the Child Support Enforcement
11    Trust Fund. All other payments  under  this  Section  to  the
12    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid shall be deposited in the
13    Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.  Disbursements  from
14    these  funds  shall be as provided in the Illinois Public Aid
15    Code. Payments received by a local governmental unit shall be
16    deposited in that unit's General Assistance Fund.
17        (5)  Orders and assignments entered or executed prior  to
18    the  Act  approved  August  14,  1961  shall  not be affected
19    thereby.  Employers served  with  wage  assignments  executed
20    prior  to  that  date  shall  comply  with the terms thereof.
21    However, the Court, on petition of the state's  attorney,  or
22    of   the   Illinois   Department   of  Public  Aid  or  local
23    governmental unit in respect to recipients of public aid, may
24    order the execution of new assignments and enter  new  orders
25    designating  the  clerk,  probation  officer, or the Illinois
26    Department of Public Aid or  appropriate  local  governmental
27    unit in respect to payments in behalf of recipients of public
28    aid,  as  the  person  or  agency  authorized  to receive and
29    disburse the salary or wages assigned.  On like petition  the
30    Court   may  enter  new  orders  designating  such  officers,
31    agencies or governmental units to receive  and  disburse  the
32    payments ordered under Section 4.
33        (6)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
34    the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to the
 
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 1    Illinois Department of Public Aid by order of court  or  upon
 2    notification  by  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid, the
 3    clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4 working days
 4    of receipt, to insure that funds are available for  immediate
 5    distribution  by  the  Department  to  the  person  or entity
 6    entitled thereto in accordance with standards  of  the  Child
 7    Support  Enforcement  Program established under Title IV-D of
 8    the  Social  Security  Act.   The  clerk  shall  notify   the
 9    Department  of  the date of receipt and amount thereof at the
10    time of transmittal.  Where the clerk  has  entered  into  an
11    agreement  of  cooperation  with the Department to record the
12    terms of child support orders and  payments  made  thereunder
13    directly  into  the  Department's  automated  data processing
14    system, the clerk shall account for, transmit  and  otherwise
15    distribute  child  support  payments  in accordance with such
16    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
17        (7)  To the extent the provisions  of  this  Section  are
18    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
19    Disbursement Unit under Section 2.2 of this Act  and  Section
20    10-26  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the requirements
21    pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
22    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-673,  eff.  1-1-99;
23    90-790, eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

24        (750 ILCS 15/2.2 new)
25        Sec. 2.2. Payment of Support to State Disbursement Unit.
26        (a)  As used in this Section:
27        "Order for support", "obligor",  "obligee",  and  "payor"
28    mean  those  terms  as  defined in the Income Withholding for
29    Support Act.
30        (b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this  Act  to
31    the  contrary,  each order for support entered or modified on
32    or after October 1, 1999 shall require that support  payments
33    be  made  to  the  State  Disbursement Unit established under
 
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 1    Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code if:
 2             (1)  a party to the order  is  receiving  child  and
 3        spouse  support  services under Article X of the Illinois
 4        Public Aid Code; or
 5             (2)  no party to the order is  receiving  child  and
 6        spouse  support  services,  but  the support payments are
 7        made through income withholding.
 8        (c)  The Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  provide
 9    notice to the obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's
10    payor to make support payments to the State Disbursement Unit
11    if:
12             (1)  the   order  for  support  was  entered  before
13        October 1, 1999, and a party to the  order  is  receiving
14        child  and spouse support services under Article X of the
15        Illinois Public Aid Code; or
16             (2)  the order for support was entered after January
17        1, 1994, no party to the order  is  receiving  child  and
18        spouse  support  services,  and  the support payments are
19        being made through income withholding.
20        (d)  The notice required under subsection (c) may be sent
21    by ordinary mail, certified mail, return  receipt  requested,
22    facsimile  transmission,  or other electronic process, or may
23    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
24    by law for service of a summons.  The Illinois Department  of
25    Public  Aid shall provide a copy of the notice to the obligee
26    and to the clerk of the court.

27        (750 ILCS 15/12.2 new)
28        Sec. 12.2.  Information to State Case Registry.
29        (a)  When an order for support  is  entered  or  modified
30    under  this Act, the clerk of the circuit court shall, within
31    5  business  days,  provide  to  the  State   Case   Registry
32    established  under  Section  10-27 of the Illinois Public Aid
33    Code the court docket number and county in which the order is
 
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 1    entered or modified and the following information, which  the
 2    parties shall disclose to the court:
 3             (1)  The  names  of  the custodial and non-custodial
 4        parents and of the  child  or  children  covered  by  the
 5        order.
 6             (2)  The   dates  of  birth  of  the  custodial  and
 7        non-custodial  parents  and  of  the  child  or  children
 8        covered by the order.
 9             (3)  The social security numbers  of  the  custodial
10        and  non-custodial  parents  and of the child or children
11        covered by the order.
12             (4)  The residential and mailing addresses  for  the
13        custodial and non-custodial parents.
14             (5)  The  telephone  numbers  for  the custodial and
15        non-custodial parents.
16             (6)  The driver's license numbers for the  custodial
17        and non-custodial parents.
18             (7)  The name, address, and telephone number of each
19        parent's employer or employers.
20        (b)  When  a  child  support order is entered or modified
21    for a case in which a party is  receiving  child  and  spouse
22    support  services  under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
23    Code, the clerk shall provide the State  Case  Registry  with
24    the following information:
25             (1)  The  information specified in subsection (a) of
26        this Section.
27             (2)  The amount of monthly or other periodic support
28        owed  under  the  order  and  other  amounts,   including
29        arrearages, interest, or late payment penalties and fees,
30        due or overdue under the order.
31             (3)  Any  amounts  described  in  subdivision (2) of
32        this subsection (b) that have been received by the clerk.
33             (4)  The distribution of the amounts received by the
34        clerk.
 
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 1        (c)  The parties affected by the order shall  inform  the
 2    clerk of court of any change of address or of other condition
 3    that may affect the administration of the order.
 4        (d)  To  the  extent  that  updated information is in the
 5    clerk's possession, the clerk shall provide  updates  of  the
 6    information  specified  in  subsection  (b)  of  this Section
 7    within 5 business  days  after  the  Illinois  Department  of
 8    Public Aid's request for that updated information.

 9        Section  35.   The  Income Withholding for Support Act is
10    amended by changing Sections 15, 20, 35, and 45 as follows:

11        (750 ILCS 28/15)
12        Sec. 15.  Definitions.
13        (a)  "Order for support" means any  order  of  the  court
14    which  provides for periodic payment of funds for the support
15    of a child or maintenance of a spouse, whether  temporary  or
16    final, and includes any such order which provides for:
17             (1)  modification  or  resumption  of, or payment of
18        arrearage accrued under, a previously existing order;
19             (2)  reimbursement of support;
20             (3)  payment or reimbursement  of  the  expenses  of
21        pregnancy  and  delivery  (for orders for support entered
22        under  the  Illinois  Parentage  Act  of  1984   or   its
23        predecessor the Paternity Act); or
24             (4)  enrollment  in  a health insurance plan that is
25        available to the obligor through  an  employer  or  labor
26        union or trade union.
27        (b)  "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
28    obligations  as determined by the court and incorporated into
29    an order for support.
30        (b-5)  "Business day" means a day on which State  offices
31    are open for regular business.
32        (c)  "Delinquency"  means  any payment under an order for
 
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 1    support which becomes due and remains unpaid after  entry  of
 2    the order for support.
 3        (d)  "Income"  means  any  form of periodic payment to an
 4    individual, regardless of source, including, but not  limited
 5    to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
 6    contractor,   workers'   compensation,  disability,  annuity,
 7    pension,  and  retirement  benefits,  lottery  prize  awards,
 8    insurance proceeds,  vacation  pay,  bonuses,  profit-sharing
 9    payments,  interest,  and  any  other  payments,  made by any
10    person, private entity, federal or state government, any unit
11    of local government, school district or any entity created by
12    Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
13             (1)  any amounts required by  law  to  be  withheld,
14        other  than  creditor  claims, including, but not limited
15        to, federal, State and local taxes, Social  Security  and
16        other retirement and disability contributions;
17             (2)  union dues;
18             (3)  any  amounts  exempted  by the federal Consumer
19        Credit Protection Act;
20             (4)  public assistance payments; and
21             (5)  unemployment  insurance  benefits   except   as
22        provided by law.
23        Any  other  State  or  local  laws  which limit or exempt
24    income or the amount or percentage  of  income  that  can  be
25    withheld shall not apply.
26        (e)  "Obligor"  means  the  individual who owes a duty to
27    make payments under an order for support.
28        (f)  "Obligee" means the individual to  whom  a  duty  of
29    support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
30        (g)  "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
31        (h)  "Public  office"  means  any elected official or any
32    State or local agency which is or may become  responsible  by
33    law  for enforcement of, or which is or may become authorized
34    to enforce, an order for support, including, but not  limited
 
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 1    to:  the  Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Public
 2    Aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services, the  Illinois
 3    Department  of  Children and Family Services, and the various
 4    State's  Attorneys,  Clerks  of   the   Circuit   Court   and
 5    supervisors of general assistance.
 6        (i)  "Premium"  means  the  dollar  amount  for which the
 7    obligor is liable to his employer or  labor  union  or  trade
 8    union and which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in
 9    a  health  insurance  plan  that  is available to the obligor
10    through an employer or labor union or trade union.
11        (j)  "State Disbursement Unit" means the unit established
12    to collect and disburse support payments in  accordance  with
13    the  provisions  of  Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid
14    Code.
15    (Source: P.A. 90-673, eff. 1-1-99; incorporates P.A.  90-790,
16    eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

17        (750 ILCS 28/20)
18        Sec.  20.  Entry  of  order for support containing income
19    withholding provisions; income withholding notice.
20        (a)  In addition to  any  content  required  under  other
21    laws,  every  order  for  support entered on or after July 1,
22    1997, shall:
23             (1)  Require an  income  withholding  notice  to  be
24        prepared  and  served  immediately  upon any payor of the
25        obligor by the obligee or public office, unless a written
26        agreement is reached between and signed by  both  parties
27        providing  for  an  alternative arrangement, approved and
28        entered into the  record  by  the  court,  which  ensures
29        payment  of support.  In that case, the order for support
30        shall provide that an income withholding notice is to  be
31        prepared   and   served   only  if  the  obligor  becomes
32        delinquent in paying the order for support; and
33             (2)  Contain  a  dollar  amount  to  be  paid  until
 
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 1        payment in full of any  delinquency  that  accrues  after
 2        entry  of  the order for support.  The amount for payment
 3        of delinquency shall not be less than 20% of the total of
 4        the current support amount and  the  amount  to  be  paid
 5        periodically  for  payment of any arrearage stated in the
 6        order for support; and
 7             (3)  Include the obligor's Social  Security  Number,
 8        which  the  obligor  shall  disclose to the court. If the
 9        obligor is not a United States citizen, the obligor shall
10        disclose to the court, and the court shall include in the
11        order  for  support,  the  obligor's  alien  registration
12        number,  passport  number,  and  home  country's   social
13        security or national health number, if applicable.
14        (b)  At  the  time  the order for support is entered, the
15    Clerk of the Circuit Court shall provide a copy of the  order
16    to the obligor and shall make copies available to the obligee
17    and public office.
18        (c)  The income withholding notice shall:
19             (1)  be  in  the  standard  format prescribed by the
20        federal Department of Health and Human Services; and
21             (1.1)  state the date of  entry  of  the  order  for
22        support  upon  which  the  income  withholding  notice is
23        based; and
24             (2)  direct any payor to withhold the dollar  amount
25        required for current support under the order for support;
26        and
27             (3)  direct  any payor to withhold the dollar amount
28        required to be paid  periodically  under  the  order  for
29        support for payment of the amount of any arrearage stated
30        in the order for support; and
31             (4)  direct  any payor or labor union or trade union
32        to enroll a child as a beneficiary of a health  insurance
33        plan and withhold or cause to be withheld, if applicable,
34        any required premiums; and
 
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 1             (5)  state   the   amount   of   the   payor  income
 2        withholding fee specified under this Section; and
 3             (6)  state that the amount  actually  withheld  from
 4        the  obligor's  income  for  support  and other purposes,
 5        including the payor withholding fee specified under  this
 6        Section,  may  not  be  in  excess  of the maximum amount
 7        permitted under the federal  Consumer  Credit  Protection
 8        Act; and
 9             (7)  state the duties of the payor and the fines and
10        penalties for failure to withhold and pay over income and
11        for  discharging,  disciplining,  refusing  to  hire,  or
12        otherwise  penalizing  the obligor because of the duty to
13        withhold and pay over income under this Section; and
14             (8)  state the rights, remedies, and duties  of  the
15        obligor under this Section; and
16             (9)  include  the  obligor's Social Security Numbers
17        of the obligor, the obligee, and the  child  or  children
18        included in the order for support Number; and
19             (10)  include  the date that withholding for current
20        support  terminates,  which  shall   be   the   date   of
21        termination  of  the current support obligation set forth
22        in the order for support; and.
23             (11)  contain the signature of the  obligee  or  the
24        printed  name  and  telephone  number  of  the authorized
25        representative of the  public  office,  except  that  the
26        failure  to  contain  the signature of the obligee or the
27        printed name  and  telephone  number  of  the  authorized
28        representative  of the public office shall not affect the
29        validity of the income withholding  notice; and
30             (12) direct any payor to pay over  amounts  withheld
31        for payment of support to the State Disbursement Unit.
32        (d)  The  accrual  of  a  delinquency  as a condition for
33    service of an income withholding notice, under the  exception
34    to  immediate  withholding in subsection (a) of this Section,
 
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 1    shall  apply  only  to  the  initial  service  of  an  income
 2    withholding notice on a payor of the obligor.
 3        (e)  Notwithstanding   the   exception    to    immediate
 4    withholding  contained  in subsection (a) of this Section, if
 5    the court finds at the time of any hearing that an  arrearage
 6    has  accrued,  the  court shall order immediate service of an
 7    income withholding notice upon the payor.
 8        (f)  If the order for support,  under  the  exception  to
 9    immediate  withholding  contained  in  subsection (a) of this
10    Section, provides that an income withholding notice is to  be
11    prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent in
12    paying  the  order  for  support,  the  obligor may execute a
13    written  waiver  of  that  condition  and  request  immediate
14    service on the payor.
15        (g)  The obligee or public office may  serve  the  income
16    withholding  notice  on  the  payor  or  its  superintendent,
17    manager,  or  other  agent by ordinary mail or certified mail
18    return receipt requested, by facsimile transmission or  other
19    electronic  means,  by  personal  delivery,  or by any method
20    provided by law for service of a summons.   At  the  time  of
21    service  on  the  payor  and  as  notice that withholding has
22    commenced, the obligee or public office shall serve a copy of
23    the income withholding notice on the obligor by ordinary mail
24    addressed to his or her last known address.  A  copy  of  the
25    income  withholding notice together with proofs of service on
26    the payor and the obligor shall be filed with  the  Clerk  of
27    the Circuit Court.
28        (h)  At  any  time after the initial service of an income
29    withholding notice, any other payor of  the  obligor  may  be
30    served  with  the  same  income  withholding  notice  without
31    further   notice  to  the  obligor.  A  copy  of  the  income
32    withholding notice together with a proof of  service  on  the
33    other  payor  shall  be  filed  with the Clerk of the Circuit
34    Court.
 
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 1        (i)  New service of an income withholding notice  is  not
 2    required in order to resume withholding of income in the case
 3    of  an  obligor  with  respect  to whom an income withholding
 4    notice was previously served on the payor if  withholding  of
 5    income  was  terminated  because  of  an  interruption in the
 6    obligor's employment of less than 180 days.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-673, eff. 1-1-99; incorporates P.A.  90-790,
 8    eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

 9        (750 ILCS 28/35)
10        Sec. 35.  Duties of payor.
11        (a)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any payor who has been
12    served with an income withholding notice to  deduct  and  pay
13    over  income  as  provided  in this Section.  The payor shall
14    deduct  the  amount  designated  in  the  income  withholding
15    notice, as supplemented by any notice  provided  pursuant  to
16    subsection  (f)  of  Section  45, beginning no later than the
17    next payment of income which is payable or creditable to  the
18    obligor  that  occurs  14  days following the date the income
19    withholding notice was mailed, sent  by  facsimile  or  other
20    electronic  means,  or  placed  for  personal  delivery to or
21    service on the payor.  The  payor  may  combine  all  amounts
22    withheld  for the benefit of an obligee or public office into
23    a single payment and transmit the payment with a  listing  of
24    obligors  from  whom withholding has been effected. The payor
25    shall pay the amount withheld to the State Disbursement Unit
26    obligee or public office within 7  business  days  after  the
27    date  the  amount would (but for the duty to withhold income)
28    have been paid or credited  to  the  obligor.  If  the  payor
29    knowingly  fails  to  pay  any  amount  withheld to the State
30    Disbursement Unit obligee or public office within 7  business
31    days  after  the  date  the  amount  would  have been paid or
32    credited to the obligor, the payor shall  pay  a  penalty  of
33    $100 for each day that the withheld amount is not paid to the
 
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 1    State  Disbursement  Unit  obligee or public office after the
 2    period of 7 business days has  expired.   The  failure  of  a
 3    payor,  on more than one occasion, to pay amounts withheld to
 4    the State Disbursement Unit obligee or public office within 7
 5    business days after the date the amount would have been  paid
 6    or  credited  to  the  obligor creates a presumption that the
 7    payor knowingly failed to pay over the amounts.  This penalty
 8    may be collected in a  civil  action  which  may  be  brought
 9    against the payor in favor of the obligee or public office. A
10    finding  of a payor's nonperformance within the time required
11    under this Act must be documented by a certified mail  return
12    receipt  showing  the  date the income withholding notice was
13    served on the payor. For purposes of  this  Act,  a  withheld
14    amount  shall be considered paid by a payor on the date it is
15    mailed by the payor, or  on  the  date  an  electronic  funds
16    transfer of the amount has been initiated by the payor, or on
17    the  date  delivery  of  the amount has been initiated by the
18    payor. For each deduction, the payor shall provide the  State
19    Disbursement  Unit  obligee  or public office, at the time of
20    transmittal, with the date the amount would (but for the duty
21    to withhold  income)  have  been  paid  or  credited  to  the
22    obligor.
23        Upon  receipt  of  an income withholding notice requiring
24    that a minor child be named as  a  beneficiary  of  a  health
25    insurance  plan  available through an employer or labor union
26    or trade union, the employer or labor union  or  trade  union
27    shall  immediately enroll the minor child as a beneficiary in
28    the  health  insurance  plan   designated   by   the   income
29    withholding  notice. The employer shall withhold any required
30    premiums and  pay  over  any  amounts  so  withheld  and  any
31    additional amounts the employer pays to the insurance carrier
32    in  a  timely  manner.   The employer or labor union or trade
33    union shall mail to the obligee, within 15 days of enrollment
34    or upon request, notice of the date of coverage,  information
 
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 1    on  the  dependent  coverage plan, and all forms necessary to
 2    obtain reimbursement for covered  health  expenses,  such  as
 3    would  be made available to a new employee. When an order for
 4    dependent coverage is in effect and the insurance coverage is
 5    terminated or changed for any reason, the employer  or  labor
 6    union  or trade union shall notify the obligee within 10 days
 7    of the termination  or  change  date  along  with  notice  of
 8    conversion privileges.
 9        For withholding of income, the payor shall be entitled to
10    receive a fee not to exceed $5 per month to be taken from the
11    income to be paid to the obligor.
12        (b)  Whenever  the  obligor is no longer receiving income
13    from the payor, the payor shall return a copy of  the  income
14    withholding  notice to the obligee or public office and shall
15    provide information for the purpose of enforcing this Act.
16        (c)  Withholding of income under this Act shall  be  made
17    without  regard  to  any  prior  or  subsequent garnishments,
18    attachments,  wage  assignments,  or  any  other  claims   of
19    creditors.  Withholding of income under this Act shall not be
20    in  excess of the maximum amounts permitted under the federal
21    Consumer Credit Protection Act. If the payor has been  served
22    with  more  than  one income withholding notice pertaining to
23    the same obligor, the payor shall allocate  income  available
24    for  withholding  on  a  proportionate  share  basis,  giving
25    priority to current support payments.  If there is any income
26    available  for  withholding after withholding for all current
27    support obligations, the payor shall allocate the  income  to
28    past  due  support  payments  ordered  in cases in which cash
29    assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code  is  not  being
30    provided to the obligee and then to past due support payments
31    ordered  in cases in which cash assistance under the Illinois
32    Public Aid Code is being provided to the obligee, both  on  a
33    proportionate  share  basis.  A  payor  who  complies with an
34    income withholding notice that is regular on its  face  shall
 
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 1    not  be  subject  to  civil  liability  with  respect  to any
 2    individual, any agency, or any creditor of  the  obligor  for
 3    conduct in compliance with the notice.
 4        (d)  No payor shall discharge, discipline, refuse to hire
 5    or  otherwise  penalize  any  obligor  because of the duty to
 6    withhold income.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-673, eff. 1-1-99.)

 8        (750 ILCS 28/45)
 9        Sec. 45.  Additional duties.
10        (a)  An  obligee  who  is  receiving  income  withholding
11    payments under this Act shall notify the  State  Disbursement
12    Unit and payor, if the obligee receives the payments directly
13    from  the  payor,  or  the  public office or the Clerk of the
14    Circuit Court, as  appropriate,  of  any  change  of  address
15    within 7 days of such change.
16        (b)  An  obligee  who  is a recipient of public aid shall
17    send a copy of any income withholding notice  served  by  the
18    obligee  to  the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the
19    Illinois Department of Public Aid.
20        (c)  Each obligor shall notify the  obligee,  the  public
21    office,  and  the Clerk of the Circuit Court of any change of
22    address within 7 days.
23        (d)  An obligor whose income is being withheld or who has
24    been served with a notice of delinquency pursuant to this Act
25    shall notify the obligee, the public office, and the Clerk of
26    the Circuit Court of any new payor, within 7 days.
27        (e)  (Blank.) When the Illinois Department of Public  Aid
28    is  no longer authorized to receive payments for the obligee,
29    it  shall,  within  7  days,  notify  the  payor  or,   where
30    appropriate,  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit Court, to redirect
31    income withholding payments to the obligee.
32        (f)  The obligee or public office shall provide notice to
33    the payor and Clerk of the Circuit Court of any other support
 
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 1    payment made, including but not limited to, a  set-off  under
 2    federal  and  State law or partial payment of the delinquency
 3    or arrearage, or both.
 4        (g)  The State Disbursement Unit Any  public  office  and
 5    Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  which  collects, disburses or
 6    receives payments  pursuant  to  income  withholding  notices
 7    shall  maintain  complete, accurate, and clear records of all
 8    income  withholding   payments   and   their   disbursements.
 9    Certified  copies  of payment records maintained by the State
10    Disbursement Unit, a public  office,  or  the  Clerk  of  the
11    Circuit  Court shall, without further proof, be admitted into
12    evidence in any legal proceedings under this Act.
13        (h)  The Illinois Department of Public Aid  shall  design
14    suggested legal forms for proceeding under this Act and shall
15    make  available  to  the  courts such forms and informational
16    materials which describe  the  procedures  and  remedies  set
17    forth  herein  for  distribution  to  all  parties in support
18    actions.
19        (i)  At the time of transmitting  each  support  payment,
20    the  State Disbursement Unit Clerk of the Circuit Court shall
21    provide the obligee or public office,  as  appropriate,  with
22    any  information  furnished  by  the payor as to the date the
23    amount would (but for the duty to withhold income) have  been
24    paid or credited to the obligor.
25    (Source:  P.A. 90-673, eff. 1-1-99; incorporates P.A. 90-790,
26    eff. 8-14-98; revised 9-14-98.)

27        Section 40.   The  Illinois  Parentage  Act  of  1984  is
28    amended  by  changing Section 21 and adding Sections 14.1 and
29    21.1 as follows:

30        (750 ILCS 45/14.1 new)
31        Sec. 14.1.  Information to State Case Registry.
32        (a)  When an order for support  is  entered  or  modified
 
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 1    under this Act,  the clerk of the circuit court shall, within
 2    5  business  days,   provide   to   the  State  Case Registry
 3    established under Section 10-27  of the Illinois  Public  Aid
 4    Code the court docket number and county  in which the   order
 5    is    entered  or  modified  and  the  following information,
 6    which the parties shall disclose to the court:
 7             (1)  The names of the  custodial  and  non-custodial
 8        parents  and  of  the  child   or children covered by the
 9        order.
10             (2)  The  dates  of  birth  of  the  custodial   and
11        non-custodial  parents  and  of  the  child  or  children
12        covered by the order.
13             (3)  The  social  security  numbers of the custodial
14        and non-custodial parents and of the  child  or  children
15        covered by the order.
16             (4)  The  residential  and mailing addresses for the
17        custodial and non-custodial parents.
18             (5)  The telephone numbers  for  the  custodial  and
19        non-custodial parents.
20             (6)  The driver's license numbers for the  custodial
21        and non-custodial parents.
22             (7)  The name, address, and telephone number of each
23        parent's employer or employers.
24        (b)  When  a  child  support order is entered or modified
25    for a case in which a party is  receiving  child  and  spouse
26    support  services  under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
27    Code, the clerk shall provide the State  Case  Registry  with
28    the following information:
29             (1)  The  information specified in subsection (a) of
30        this Section.
31             (2)  The amount of monthly or other periodic support
32        owed  under  the   order  and  other  amounts,  including
33        arrearages, interest, or late payment penalties and fees,
34        due or overdue under the order.
 
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 1             (3)  Any  amounts  described  in  subdivision (2) of
 2        this subsection (b) that have been received by the clerk.
 3             (4)  The distribution of the amounts received by the
 4        clerk.
 5        (c)  The parties affected by the order shall  inform  the
 6    clerk of court of any change of address or of other condition
 7    that may affect the administration of the order.
 8        (d)  To  the  extent  that  updated information is in the
 9    clerk's possession, the clerk shall provide  updates  of  the
10    information  specified  in  subsection  (b)  of  this Section
11    within 5 business  days  after  the  Illinois  Department  of
12    Public Aid's request for that updated information.

13        (750 ILCS 45/21) (from Ch. 40, par. 2521)
14        Sec.  21.  Support  payments;  receiving  and  disbursing
15    agents.
16        (1)  In an action filed in a county counties of less than
17    3  million  population in which an order for child support is
18    entered, and in supplementary proceedings in  such  a  county
19    counties  to  enforce or vary the terms of such order arising
20    out of an action filed in such a county counties, the  court,
21    except  in  actions or supplementary proceedings in which the
22    pregnancy and delivery expenses of the mother  or  the  child
23    support  payments  are  for  a  recipient  of  aid  under the
24    Illinois Public Aid Code, shall  direct  that  child  support
25    payments  be  made  to  the  clerk of the court unless in the
26    discretion of the  court  exceptional  circumstances  warrant
27    otherwise.   In  cases where payment is to be made to persons
28    other than the clerk of the court the judgment  or  order  of
29    support   shall  set  forth  the  facts  of  the  exceptional
30    circumstances.
31        (2)  In an action filed in a county counties of 3 million
32    or more population in which an order  for  child  support  is
33    entered,  and  in  supplementary proceedings in such a county
 
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 1    counties to enforce or vary the terms of such  order  arising
 2    out  of  an  action filed date in such a county counties, the
 3    court, except in  actions  or  supplementary  proceedings  in
 4    which  the  pregnancy  and delivery expenses of the mother or
 5    the child support payments are for a recipient of  aid  under
 6    the Illinois Public Aid Code, shall direct that child support
 7    payments  be  made either to the clerk of the court or to the
 8    Court Service Division of the  County  Department  of  Public
 9    Aid,  or  to  the  clerk  of  the  court  or  to the Illinois
10    Department of Public Aid, unless in  the  discretion  of  the
11    court  exceptional circumstances warrant otherwise.  In cases
12    where payment is to be made to persons other than  the  clerk
13    of  the  court,  the  Court  Service  Division  of the County
14    Department of Public  Aid,  or  the  Illinois  Department  of
15    Public  Aid, the judgment or order of support shall set forth
16    the facts of the exceptional circumstances.
17        (3)  Where the action or supplementary proceeding  is  in
18    behalf of a mother for pregnancy and delivery expenses or for
19    child  support,  or both, and the mother, child, or both, are
20    recipients of aid under the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  the
21    court  shall  order that the payments be made directly to (a)
22    the Illinois Department of Public Aid if the mother or child,
23    or both, are recipients under Articles IV or V of  the  Code,
24    or  (b)  the  local  governmental  unit  responsible  for the
25    support of  the  mother  or  child,  or  both,  if  they  are
26    recipients   under  Articles  VI  or  VII  of  the  Code.  In
27    accordance with federal law  and  regulations,  the  Illinois
28    Department  of  Public  Aid  may  continue to collect current
29    maintenance payments or  child  support  payments,  or  both,
30    after  those  persons  cease to receive public assistance and
31    until termination of services under Article X of the Illinois
32    Public Aid Code.  The Illinois Department of Public Aid shall
33    pay the net amount collected to those persons after deducting
34    any costs incurred in making the collection or any collection
 
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 1    fee from the  amount  of  any  recovery  made.  The  Illinois
 2    Department  of  Public Aid or the local governmental unit, as
 3    the case may be, may direct that payments be made directly to
 4    the mother of the child, or to some other person or agency in
 5    the child's behalf, upon the removal of the mother and  child
 6    from  the  public  aid  rolls or upon termination of services
 7    under Article X of the Illinois Public  Aid  Code;  and  upon
 8    such   direction,   the  Illinois  Department  or  the  local
 9    governmental unit, as the case requires, shall give notice of
10    such  action  to  the  court  in  writing  or  by  electronic
11    transmission.
12        (4)  All clerks  of  the  court  and  the  Court  Service
13    Division  of  a  County  Department  of  Public  Aid  and the
14    Illinois Department of Public Aid,  receiving  child  support
15    payments  under paragraphs (1) or (2) shall disburse the same
16    to the person or persons entitled thereto under the terms  of
17    the  order.   They  shall  establish  and  maintain clear and
18    current records of all moneys received and disbursed  and  of
19    defaults  and delinquencies in required payments.  The court,
20    by order or rule, shall make provision for the  carrying  out
21    of these duties.
22    in accordance with the Income Withholding for Support
23        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
24    transmission  from  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid to
25    the clerk of the court that a person who is receiving support
26    payments under this Section is receiving services  under  the
27    Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D
28    of the Social Security Act, any support payments subsequently
29    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
30    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
31    of Public Aid until the Department gives notice to cease  the
32    transmittal.   After  providing  the  notification authorized
33    under this paragraph, the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid
34    shall  be  entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of any further
 
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 1    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
 2    copy of the Illinois Department of Public Aid's  notification
 3    in  the  court file.  The failure of the clerk to file a copy
 4    of the notification in the court  file  shall  not,  however,
 5    affect  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid's right to
 6    receive notice of further proceedings.
 7        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
 8    Public Aid pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement  Program
 9    established by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be
10    paid  into  the  Child  Support  Enforcement Trust Fund.  All
11    other payments under this Section to the Illinois  Department
12    of  Public  Aid  shall  be deposited in the Public Assistance
13    Recoveries Trust Fund.  Disbursement from these  funds  shall
14    be  as  provided  in  the Illinois Public Aid Code.  Payments
15    received by a local governmental unit shall be  deposited  in
16    that unit's General Assistance Fund.
17        (5)  The   moneys   received   by   persons  or  agencies
18    designated by  the  court  shall  be  disbursed  by  them  in
19    accordance  with  the order.  However, the court, on petition
20    of the state's attorney, may enter new orders designating the
21    clerk of the court or the Illinois Department of Public  Aid,
22    as  the  person  or agency authorized to receive and disburse
23    child support payments and, in  the  case  of  recipients  of
24    public aid, the court, on petition of the Attorney General or
25    State's Attorney, shall direct subsequent payments to be paid
26    to   the   Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  or  to  the
27    appropriate local governmental unit, as provided in paragraph
28    (3). Payments of child support by principals or  sureties  on
29    bonds,  or  proceeds  of  any  sale  for the enforcement of a
30    judgment shall be  made  to  the  clerk  of  the  court,  the
31    Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid or the appropriate local
32    governmental unit,  as  the  respective  provisions  of  this
33    Section require.
34        (6)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
 
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 1    the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to the
 2    Illinois Department of Public Aid by order of court  or  upon
 3    notification  by  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid, the
 4    clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4 working days
 5    of receipt, to insure that funds are available for  immediate
 6    distribution  by  the  Department  to  the  person  or entity
 7    entitled thereto in accordance with standards  of  the  Child
 8    Support  Enforcement  Program established under Title IV-D of
 9    the  Social  Security  Act.   The  clerk  shall  notify   the
10    Department  of  the date of receipt and amount thereof at the
11    time of transmittal.  Where the clerk  has  entered  into  an
12    agreement  of  cooperation  with the Department to record the
13    terms of child support orders and  payments  made  thereunder
14    directly  into  the  Department's  automated  data processing
15    system, the clerk shall account for, transmit  and  otherwise
16    distribute  child  support  payments  in accordance with such
17    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
18        (7)  To the extent the provisions  of  this  Section  are
19    inconsistent  with  the  requirements pertaining to the State
20    Disbursement Unit under Section 21.1 of this Act and  Section
21    10-26  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the requirements
22    pertaining to the State Disbursement Unit shall apply.
23    (Source:  P.A.  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-673,  eff.  1-1-99;
24    90-790, eff. 8-14-98; revised 11-5-98.)

25        (750 ILCS 45/21.1 new)
26        Sec. 21.1. Payment of Support to State Disbursement Unit.
27        (a) As used in this Section:
28        "Order for support", "obligor",  "obligee",  and  "payor"
29    mean  those  terms  as  defined in the Income Withholding for
30    Support Act.
31        (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of  this  Act  to
32    the  contrary,  each order for support entered or modified on
33    or after October 1, 1999 shall require that support  payments
 
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 1    be  made  to  the  State  Disbursement Unit established under
 2    Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid Code if:
 3             (1) a party to the  order  is  receiving  child  and
 4        spouse  support  services under Article X of the Illinois
 5        Public Aid Code; or
 6             (2) no party to the order  is  receiving  child  and
 7        spouse  support  services,  but  the support payments are
 8        made through income withholding.
 9        (c) The Illinois Department of Public Aid  shall  provide
10    notice to the obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's
11    payor to make support payments to the State Disbursement Unit
12    if:
13             (1) the order for support was entered before October
14        1,  1999, and a party to the order is receiving child and
15        spouse support services under Article X of  the  Illinois
16        Public Aid Code; or
17             (2)  the order for support was entered after January
18        1,  1994,  no  party  to the order is receiving child and
19        spouse support services, and  the  support  payments  are
20        being made through income withholding.
21        (d)  The notice required under subsection (c) may be sent
22    by ordinary mail, certified mail, return  receipt  requested,
23    facsimile  transmission,  or other electronic process, or may
24    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
25    by law for service of a summons.  The Illinois Department  of
26    Public  Aid shall provide a copy of the notice to the obligee
27    and to the clerk of the court.

28        Section 45.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
29    changing Section 1300 as follows:

30        (820 ILCS 405/1300) (from Ch. 48, par. 540)
31        Sec. 1300.   Waiver  or  transfer  of  benefit  rights  -
32    Partial exemption.
 
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 1        (A)  Except as otherwise provided herein any agreement by
 2    an  individual  to waive, release or commute his rights under
 3    this Act shall be void.
 4        (B)  Benefits due under this Act shall not  be  assigned,
 5    pledged, encumbered, released or commuted and shall be exempt
 6    from  all  claims  of  creditors and from levy, execution and
 7    attachment or other remedy for recovery or  collection  of  a
 8    debt.   However,  nothing  in  this  Section shall prohibit a
 9    specified or  agreed  upon  deduction  from  benefits  by  an
10    individual,   or   a   court   or  administrative  order  for
11    withholding of income, for payment of past due child  support
12    from being enforced and collected by the Department of Public
13    Aid  on  behalf of persons receiving a grant of financial aid
14    under Article IV of The Illinois Public Aid Code, persons for
15    whom an application has been made and  approved  for  support
16    services   under  Section  10-1  of  such  Code,  or  persons
17    similarly situated and receiving  like  support  services  in
18    other states.   It is provided that:
19             (1)  The  aforementioned  deduction  of benefits and
20        order for withholding of income apply only if appropriate
21        arrangements have been  made  for  reimbursement  to  the
22        Director   by  the  Department  of  Public  Aid  for  any
23        administrative costs incurred by the Director under  this
24        Section.
25             (2)  The  Director  shall  deduct  and withhold from
26        benefits payable under this Act, or under any arrangement
27        for the payment of benefits entered into by the  Director
28        pursuant to the powers granted under Section 2700 of this
29        Act, the amount specified or agreed upon.  In the case of
30        a  court    or  administrative  order  for withholding of
31        income, the Director shall withhold  the  amount  of  the
32        order.
33             (3)  Any   amount   deducted  and  withheld  by  the
34        Director shall be paid to  the  State  Disbursement  Unit
 
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 1        established  under  Section  10-26 of the Illinois Public
 2        Aid Code Department  of  Public  Aid  on  behalf  of  the
 3        individual.
 4             (4)  Any   amount   deducted   and   withheld  under
 5        subsection (3) shall for all purposes be treated as if it
 6        were paid to the individual as benefits and paid by  such
 7        individual  to  the State Disbursement Unit Department of
 8        Public Aid in  satisfaction  of  the  individual's  child
 9        support obligations.
10             (5)  For  the purpose of this Section, child support
11        is defined as those obligations which are being  enforced
12        pursuant to a plan described in Title IV, Part D, Section
13        454  of  the  Social  Security  Act  and  approved by the
14        Secretary of Health and Human Services.
15             (6)  The  deduction  of  benefits  and   order   for
16        withholding of income for child support shall be governed
17        by  Titles  III and IV of the Social Security Act and all
18        regulations duly promulgated thereunder.
19        (C)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
20    voluntarily electing to have federal income tax deducted  and
21    withheld  from  his  or  her  unemployment  insurance benefit
22    payments.
23             (1)  The  Director  shall,  at  the  time  that   an
24        individual  files  his  or  her  claim  for benefits that
25        establishes  his  or  her  benefit   year,   inform   the
26        individual that:
27                  (a)  unemployment   insurance   is  subject  to
28             federal, State, and local income taxes;
29                  (b)  requirements exist pertaining to estimated
30             tax payments;
31                  (c)  the individual may elect to  have  federal
32             income  tax  deducted  and  withheld from his or her
33             payments of unemployment  insurance  in  the  amount
34             specified in the federal Internal Revenue Code; and
 
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 1                  (d)  the  individual  is  permitted to change a
 2             previously elected withholding status.
 3             (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
 4        insurance shall remain in  the  unemployment  fund  until
 5        transferred  to the federal taxing authority as a payment
 6        of income tax.
 7             (3)  The  Director  shall  follow   all   procedures
 8        specified  by  the  United States Department of Labor and
 9        the federal Internal Revenue Service  pertaining  to  the
10        deducting and withholding of income tax.
11             (4)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
12        accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
13        promulgated by the Director.
14        (D)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
15    voluntarily  electing  to  have  State of Illinois income tax
16    deducted and withheld from his or her unemployment  insurance
17    benefit   payments  if  such  deduction  and  withholding  is
18    provided for pursuant to rules promulgated by the Director.
19             (1)  If  pursuant  to  rules  promulgated   by   the
20        Director,  an  individual  may  voluntarily elect to have
21        State of Illinois income tax deducted and  withheld  from
22        his  or  her unemployment insurance benefit payments, the
23        Director shall, at the time that an individual files  his
24        or  her  claim  for  benefits that establishes his or her
25        benefit  year,  in  addition  to  providing  the   notice
26        required under subsection C, inform the individual that:
27                  (a)  the  individual may elect to have State of
28             Illinois income tax deducted and withheld  from  his
29             or  her  payments  of  unemployment insurance in the
30             amount specified pursuant to  rules  promulgated  by
31             the Director; and
32                  (b)  the  individual  is  permitted to change a
33             previously elected withholding status.
34             (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
 
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 1        insurance shall remain in  the  unemployment  fund  until
 2        transferred  to the Department of Revenue as a payment of
 3        State of Illinois income tax.
 4             (3)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
 5        accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
 6        promulgated by the Director.
 7        (E)  Nothing in this Section prohibits the deduction  and
 8    withholding  of  an  uncollected  overissuance  of food stamp
 9    coupons from unemployment insurance benefits pursuant to this
10    subsection (E).
11             (1)  At the time that an individual  files  a  claim
12        for  benefits  that  establishes his or her benefit year,
13        that individual must disclose whether or not  he  or  she
14        owes  an  uncollected overissuance (as defined in Section
15        13(c)(1) of the federal Food Stamp Act of 1977)  of  food
16        stamp  coupons.  The Director shall notify the State food
17        stamp agency enforcing such obligation of any  individual
18        who   discloses  that  he  or  she  owes  an  uncollected
19        overissuance of food stamp  coupons  and  who  meets  the
20        monetary  eligibility  requirements  of  subsection  E of
21        Section 500.
22             (2)  The Director shall deduct and withhold from any
23        unemployment insurance benefits payable to an  individual
24        who  owes  an  uncollected  overissuance  of  food  stamp
25        coupons:
26                  (a)  the  amount specified by the individual to
27             the Director to be deducted and withheld under  this
28             subsection (E);
29                  (b)  the amount (if any) determined pursuant to
30             an  agreement  submitted  to  the  State  food stamp
31             agency under Section 13(c)(3)(A) of the federal Food
32             Stamp Act of 1977; or
33                  (c)  any  amount  otherwise  required   to   be
34             deducted  and  withheld  from unemployment insurance
 
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 1             benefits pursuant  to  Section  13(c)(3)(B)  of  the
 2             federal Food Stamp Act of 1977.
 3             (3)  Any  amount  deducted  and withheld pursuant to
 4        this subsection (E) shall be paid by the Director to  the
 5        State food stamp agency.
 6             (4)  Any  amount  deducted  and withheld pursuant to
 7        this subsection (E) shall for all purposes be treated  as
 8        if  it  were  paid  to  the  individual  as  unemployment
 9        insurance  benefits  and  paid  by  the individual to the
10        State food stamp agency as repayment of the  individual's
11        uncollected overissuance of food stamp coupons.
12             (5)  For    purposes   of   this   subsection   (E),
13        "unemployment insurance benefits" means any  compensation
14        payable  under  this Act including amounts payable by the
15        Director pursuant to an agreement under any  federal  law
16        providing  for  compensation,  assistance,  or allowances
17        with respect to unemployment.
18             (6)  This   subsection   (E)   applies    only    if
19        arrangements  have  been  made  for  reimbursement by the
20        State food stamp  agency  for  the  administrative  costs
21        incurred  by the Director under this subsection (E) which
22        are  attributable  to  the   repayment   of   uncollected
23        overissuances  of  food  stamp  coupons to the State food
24        stamp agency.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-446,  eff.  1-1-97;  90-425,  eff.  8-15-97;
26    90-554, eff. 12-12-97.)

27        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
28    becoming law.
 
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    15 ILCS 405/10.05a        from Ch. 15, par. 210.05a
 4    20 ILCS 2505/39b52
 5    35 ILCS 5/901             from Ch. 120, par. 9-901
 6    305 ILCS 5/10-8           from Ch. 23, par. 10-8
 7    305 ILCS 5/10-10          from Ch. 23, par. 10-10
 8    305 ILCS 5/10-10.4 new
 9    305 ILCS 5/10-16          from Ch. 23, par. 10-16
10    305 ILCS 5/10-17.9
11    305 ILCS 5/10-19          from Ch. 23, par. 10-19
12    305 ILCS 5/10-26 new
13    305 ILCS 5/12-8.1 new
14    305 ILCS 5/12-9           from Ch. 23, par. 12-9
15    305 ILCS 5/12-10.2        from Ch. 23, par. 12-10.2
16    750 ILCS 5/507.1 new
17    750 ILCS 5/705            from Ch. 40, par. 705
18    750 ILCS 5/709            from Ch. 40, par. 709
19    750 ILCS 15/2.1           from Ch. 40, par. 1105
20    750 ILCS 15/2.2 new
21    750 ILCS 28/15
22    750 ILCS 28/20
23    750 ILCS 28/35
24    750 ILCS 28/45
25    750 ILCS 45/21            from Ch. 40, par. 2521
26    750 ILCS 45/21.1 new
27    820 ILCS 405/1300         from Ch. 48, par. 540

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