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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 3720   </title>
<shortdesc>ADOPTION ACT-NEED NO CONSENT</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios-Deborah L. Graham</sponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>1/11/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
</lastaction>
<synopsis>
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<reference>750 ILCS 50/8</reference><aliasreference>from Ch. 40, par. 1510</aliasreference><SynopsisText>     Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that a consent or surrender for adoption is not required from a person found by the court to have been indicated for child sexual abuse as defined in the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act that involved: (i) sexual penetration of the mother; or (ii) a person found to be at least 5 years older than the mother and the mother was under the age of 17 at the time of conception of the child to be adopted.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>3/3/2003</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios</action>
<statusdate>3/3/2003</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Deborah L. Graham</action>
<statusdate>3/31/2003</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>3/31/2003</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>1/11/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
</actions>
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