Sen. Donne E. Trotter
Filed: 3/14/2005
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1469 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1469  by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

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



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



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    Sec. 12. Advertising.


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

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placement or offering a child or children for care or 
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placement.

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    Only child care facilities or child welfare agencies 
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licensed or operating under a permit issued by the Department 
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may publish advertisements for the services that the facility 
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or agency is specifically licensed for or issued a permit under 
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this Act to provide.  A licensed child welfare agency that 
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places children for the purposes of adoption may not include in 
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any published advertisement for the agency language that offers 
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free medical care, housing, clothing, or transportation or any 
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other offer of services, unless the advertisement also 
 


 






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indicates that these services are provided with no obligation 
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on the part of the birth parent to make an adoption plan.  
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Nothing in the advertisement shall include any information that 
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the Department may reasonably construe to be an inducement or 
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offer for compensation in return for making a child available 
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for placement with a child welfare agency.  This paragraph shall 
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not prohibit a child welfare agency from advertising counseling 
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and casework services.

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