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1    AN ACT concerning parentage.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by
5changing Sections 1-3 and 6-9 as follows:
 
6    (705 ILCS 405/1-3)  (from Ch. 37, par. 801-3)
7    Sec. 1-3. Definitions. Terms used in this Act, unless the
8context otherwise requires, have the following meanings
9ascribed to them:
10    (1) "Adjudicatory hearing" means a hearing to determine
11whether the allegations of a petition under Section 2-13, 3-15
12or 4-12 that a minor under 18 years of age is abused, neglected
13or dependent, or requires authoritative intervention, or
14addicted, respectively, are supported by a preponderance of the
15evidence or whether the allegations of a petition under Section
165-520 that a minor is delinquent are proved beyond a reasonable
17doubt.
18    (2) "Adult" means a person 21 years of age or older.
19    (3) "Agency" means a public or private child care facility
20legally authorized or licensed by this State for placement or
21institutional care or for both placement and institutional
22care.
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1private, engaged in welfare functions which include services to
2or on behalf of children but does not include "agency" as
3herein defined.
4    (4.05) Whenever a "best interest" determination is
5required, the following factors shall be considered in the
6context of the child's age and developmental needs:
7        (a) the physical safety and welfare of the child,
8    including food, shelter, health, and clothing;
9        (b) the development of the child's identity;
10        (c) the child's background and ties, including
11    familial, cultural, and religious;
12        (d) the child's sense of attachments, including:
13            (i) where the child actually feels love,
14        attachment, and a sense of being valued (as opposed to
15        where adults believe the child should feel such love,
16        attachment, and a sense of being valued);
17            (ii) the child's sense of security;
18            (iii) the child's sense of familiarity;
19            (iv) continuity of affection for the child;
20            (v) the least disruptive placement alternative for
21        the child;
22        (e) the child's wishes and long-term goals;
23        (f) the child's community ties, including church,
24    school, and friends;
25        (g) the child's need for permanence which includes the
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1    with parent figures and with siblings and other relatives;
2        (h) the uniqueness of every family and child;
3        (i) the risks attendant to entering and being in
4    substitute care; and
5        (j) the preferences of the persons available to care
6    for the child.
7    (4.1) "Chronic truant" shall have the definition ascribed
8to it in Section 26-2a of the School Code.
9    (5) "Court" means the circuit court in a session or
10division assigned to hear proceedings under this Act.
11    (6) "Dispositional hearing" means a hearing to determine
12whether a minor should be adjudged to be a ward of the court,
13and to determine what order of disposition should be made in
14respect to a minor adjudged to be a ward of the court.
15    (7) "Emancipated minor" means any minor 16 years of age or
16over who has been completely or partially emancipated under the
17Emancipation of Minors Act or under this Act.
18    (8) "Guardianship of the person" of a minor means the duty
19and authority to act in the best interests of the minor,
20subject to residual parental rights and responsibilities, to
21make important decisions in matters having a permanent effect
22on the life and development of the minor and to be concerned
23with his or her general welfare. It includes but is not
24necessarily limited to:
25        (a) the authority to consent to marriage, to enlistment
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1    medical, psychiatric, and surgical treatment; to represent
2    the minor in legal actions; and to make other decisions of
3    substantial legal significance concerning the minor;
4        (b) the authority and duty of reasonable visitation,
5    except to the extent that these have been limited in the
6    best interests of the minor by court order;
7        (c) the rights and responsibilities of legal custody
8    except where legal custody has been vested in another
9    person or agency; and
10        (d) the power to consent to the adoption of the minor,
11    but only if expressly conferred on the guardian in
12    accordance with Section 2-29, 3-30, or 4-27.
13    (9) "Legal custody" means the relationship created by an
14order of court in the best interests of the minor which imposes
15on the custodian the responsibility of physical possession of a
16minor and the duty to protect, train and discipline him and to
17provide him with food, shelter, education and ordinary medical
18care, except as these are limited by residual parental rights
19and responsibilities and the rights and responsibilities of the
20guardian of the person, if any.
21    (9.1) "Mentally capable adult relative" means a person 21
22years of age or older who is not suffering from a mental
23illness that prevents him or her from providing the care
24necessary to safeguard the physical safety and welfare of a
25minor who is left in that person's care by the parent or
26parents or other person responsible for the minor's welfare.

 

 

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1    (10) "Minor" means a person under the age of 21 years
2subject to this Act.
3    (11) "Parent" means the father or mother of a child and
4includes any adoptive parent. It also includes a man (i) whose
5paternity is presumed or has been established under the law of
6this or another jurisdiction or (ii) who has registered with
7the Putative Father Registry in accordance with Section 12.1 of
8the Adoption Act and whose paternity has not been ruled out
9under the law of this or another jurisdiction. It does not
10include a parent whose rights in respect to the minor have been
11terminated in any manner provided by law or a person who has
12been or could be determined to be a parent under the Illinois
13Parentage Act of 1984, or similar parentage law in any other
14state, who has been convicted or pled nolo contendere to any
15crime that resulted in the conception of the child, including,
16but not limited to, Sections 11-11, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, and
1712-16 and subsections (a) and (b) (but not subsection (c)) of
18Section 12-15 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or a similar statute
19in another jurisdiction.
20    (11.1) "Permanency goal" means a goal set by the court as
21defined in subdivision (2) of Section 2-28.
22    (11.2) "Permanency hearing" means a hearing to set the
23permanency goal and to review and determine (i) the
24appropriateness of the services contained in the plan and
25whether those services have been provided, (ii) whether
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1service plan to achieve the goal, and (iii) whether the plan
2and goal have been achieved.
3    (12) "Petition" means the petition provided for in Section
42-13, 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520, including any supplemental petitions
5thereunder in Section 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520.
6    (12.1) "Physically capable adult relative" means a person
721 years of age or older who does not have a severe physical
8disability or medical condition, or is not suffering from
9alcoholism or drug addiction, that prevents him or her from
10providing the care necessary to safeguard the physical safety
11and welfare of a minor who is left in that person's care by the
12parent or parents or other person responsible for the minor's
13welfare.
14    (13) "Residual parental rights and responsibilities" means
15those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent
16after the transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the
17person, including, but not necessarily limited to, the right to
18reasonable visitation (which may be limited by the court in the
19best interests of the minor as provided in subsection (8)(b) of
20this Section), the right to consent to adoption, the right to
21determine the minor's religious affiliation, and the
22responsibility for his support.
23    (14) "Shelter" means the temporary care of a minor in
24physically unrestricting facilities pending court disposition
25or execution of court order for placement.
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1alleged offender by a juvenile police officer.
2    (16) "Ward of the court" means a minor who is so adjudged
3under Section 2-22, 3-23, 4-20 or 5-705, after a finding of the
4requisite jurisdictional facts, and thus is subject to the
5dispositional powers of the court under this Act.
6    (17) "Juvenile police officer" means a sworn police officer
7who has completed a Basic Recruit Training Course, has been
8assigned to the position of juvenile police officer by his or
9her chief law enforcement officer and has completed the
10necessary juvenile officers training as prescribed by the
11Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, or in the
12case of a State police officer, juvenile officer training
13approved by the Director of the Department of State Police.
14    (18) "Secure child care facility" means any child care
15facility licensed by the Department of Children and Family
16Services to provide secure living arrangements for children
17under 18 years of age who are subject to placement in
18facilities under the Children and Family Services Act and who
19are not subject to placement in facilities for whom standards
20are established by the Department of Corrections under Section
213-15-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections. "Secure child care
22facility" also means a facility that is designed and operated
23to ensure that all entrances and exits from the facility, a
24building, or a distinct part of the building are under the
25exclusive control of the staff of the facility, whether or not
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1the facility, building, or distinct part of the building.
2(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-168, eff. 8-10-09.)
 
3    (705 ILCS 405/6-9)  (from Ch. 37, par. 806-9)
4    Sec. 6-9. Enforcement of liability of parents and others.
5    (1) If parentage is at issue in any proceeding under this
6Act, other than cases involving those exceptions to the
7definition of parent set out in item (11) in Section 1-3, then
8the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 shall apply and the court
9shall enter orders consistent with that Act. If it appears at
10any hearing that a parent or any other person named in the
11petition, liable under the law for the support of the minor, is
12able to contribute to his or her support, the court shall enter
13an order requiring that parent or other person to pay the clerk
14of the court, or to the guardian or custodian appointed under
15Sections 2-27, 3-28, 4-25 or 5-740, a reasonable sum from time
16to time for the care, support and necessary special care or
17treatment, of the minor. If the court determines at any hearing
18that a parent or any other person named in the petition, liable
19under the law for the support of the minor, is able to
20contribute to help defray the costs associated with the minor's
21detention in a county or regional detention center, the court
22shall enter an order requiring that parent or other person to
23pay the clerk of the court a reasonable sum for the care and
24support of the minor. The court may require reasonable security
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1obedience to the order by a proceeding as for contempt of
2court.
3    If it appears that the person liable for the support of the
4minor is able to contribute to legal fees for representation of
5the minor, the court shall enter an order requiring that person
6to pay a reasonable sum for the representation, to the attorney
7providing the representation or to the clerk of the court for
8deposit in the appropriate account or fund. The sum may be paid
9as the court directs, and the payment thereof secured and
10enforced as provided in this Section for support.
11    If it appears at the detention or shelter care hearing of a
12minor before the court under Section 5-501 that a parent or any
13other person liable for support of the minor is able to
14contribute to his or her support, that parent or other person
15shall be required to pay a fee for room and board at a rate not
16to exceed $10 per day established, with the concurrence of the
17chief judge of the judicial circuit, by the county board of the
18county in which the minor is detained unless the court
19determines that it is in the best interest and welfare of the
20minor to waive the fee. The concurrence of the chief judge
21shall be in the form of an administrative order. Each week, on
22a day designated by the clerk of the circuit court, that parent
23or other person shall pay the clerk for the minor's room and
24board. All fees for room and board collected by the circuit
25court clerk shall be disbursed into the separate county fund
26under Section 6-7.

 

 

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1    Upon application, the court shall waive liability for
2support or legal fees under this Section if the parent or other
3person establishes that he or she is indigent and unable to pay
4the incurred liability, and the court may reduce or waive
5liability if the parent or other person establishes
6circumstances showing that full payment of support or legal
7fees would result in financial hardship to the person or his or
8her family.
9    (2) When a person so ordered to pay for the care and
10support of a minor is employed for wages, salary or commission,
11the court may order him to make the support payments for which
12he is liable under this Act out of his wages, salary or
13commission and to assign so much thereof as will pay the
14support. The court may also order him to make discovery to the
15court as to his place of employment and the amounts earned by
16him. Upon his failure to obey the orders of court he may be
17punished as for contempt of court.
18    (3) If the minor is a recipient of public aid under the
19Illinois Public Aid Code, the court shall order that payments
20made by a parent or through assignment of his wages, salary or
21commission be made directly to (a) the Department of Healthcare
22and Family Services if the minor is a recipient of aid under
23Article V of the Code, (b) the Department of Human Services if
24the minor is a recipient of aid under Article IV of the Code,
25or (c) the local governmental unit responsible for the support
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1the Code. The order shall permit the Department of Healthcare
2and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, or the
3local governmental unit, as the case may be, to direct that
4subsequent payments be made directly to the guardian or
5custodian of the minor, or to some other person or agency in
6the minor's behalf, upon removal of the minor from the public
7aid rolls; and upon such direction and removal of the minor
8from the public aid rolls, the Department of Healthcare and
9Family Services, Department of Human Services, or local
10governmental unit, as the case requires, shall give written
11notice of such action to the court. Payments received by the
12Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Department of
13Human Services, or local governmental unit are to be covered,
14respectively, into the General Revenue Fund of the State
15Treasury or General Assistance Fund of the governmental unit,
16as provided in Section 10-19 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
17(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
 
18    Section 10. The Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 is amended
19by changing Section 6.5 as follows:
 
20    (750 ILCS 45/6.5)
21    Sec. 6.5. Custody or visitation by sex offender prohibited.
22A person found to be the father of a child under this Act, and
23who has been convicted of or who has pled guilty or nolo
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1within families), Section 12-13 (criminal sexual assault),
2Section 12-14 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), Section
312-14.1 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child), Section
412-15 (criminal sexual abuse), or Section 12-16 (aggravated
5criminal sexual abuse) of the Criminal Code of 1961 or a
6similar statute in Illinois or another jurisdiction for his
7conduct in fathering that child, shall not be entitled to
8custody of or visitation with that child without the consent of
9the mother or guardian, unless the guardian of the child is
10other than the father of the child, and the father of the child
11who has been convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendre to
12one of the offenses listed in this Section, or, in cases where
13the mother is a minor, the guardian of the mother of the child,
14unless the guardian of the mother is the father of the child,
15and the father of the child has been convicted or pled guilty
16or nolo contendre to one of the offenses listed in this
17Section. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
18nothing in this Section shall be construed to relieve the
19father of any support and maintenance obligations to the child
20under this Act.
21(Source: P.A. 94-928, eff. 6-26-06.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.