Rep. Michael J. Zalewski

Filed: 3/15/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3005

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3005 by replacing
3the title with the following:
4    "AN ACT concerning parentage."; and
 
5by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6following:
 
7    "Section 5. The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by
8changing Section 1-3 as follows:
 
9    (705 ILCS 405/1-3)  (from Ch. 37, par. 801-3)
10    Sec. 1-3. Definitions. Terms used in this Act, unless the
11context otherwise requires, have the following meanings
12ascribed to them:
13    (1) "Adjudicatory hearing" means a hearing to determine
14whether the allegations of a petition under Section 2-13, 3-15
15or 4-12 that a minor under 18 years of age is abused, neglected

 

 

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1or dependent, or requires authoritative intervention, or
2addicted, respectively, are supported by a preponderance of the
3evidence or whether the allegations of a petition under Section
45-520 that a minor is delinquent are proved beyond a reasonable
5doubt.
6    (2) "Adult" means a person 21 years of age or older.
7    (3) "Agency" means a public or private child care facility
8legally authorized or licensed by this State for placement or
9institutional care or for both placement and institutional
10care.
11    (4) "Association" means any organization, public or
12private, engaged in welfare functions which include services to
13or on behalf of children but does not include "agency" as
14herein defined.
15    (4.05) Whenever a "best interest" determination is
16required, the following factors shall be considered in the
17context of the child's age and developmental needs:
18        (a) the physical safety and welfare of the child,
19    including food, shelter, health, and clothing;
20        (b) the development of the child's identity;
21        (c) the child's background and ties, including
22    familial, cultural, and religious;
23        (d) the child's sense of attachments, including:
24            (i) where the child actually feels love,
25        attachment, and a sense of being valued (as opposed to
26        where adults believe the child should feel such love,

 

 

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1        attachment, and a sense of being valued);
2            (ii) the child's sense of security;
3            (iii) the child's sense of familiarity;
4            (iv) continuity of affection for the child;
5            (v) the least disruptive placement alternative for
6        the child;
7        (e) the child's wishes and long-term goals;
8        (f) the child's community ties, including church,
9    school, and friends;
10        (g) the child's need for permanence which includes the
11    child's need for stability and continuity of relationships
12    with parent figures and with siblings and other relatives;
13        (h) the uniqueness of every family and child;
14        (i) the risks attendant to entering and being in
15    substitute care; and
16        (j) the preferences of the persons available to care
17    for the child.
18    (4.1) "Chronic truant" shall have the definition ascribed
19to it in Section 26-2a of the School Code.
20    (5) "Court" means the circuit court in a session or
21division assigned to hear proceedings under this Act.
22    (6) "Dispositional hearing" means a hearing to determine
23whether a minor should be adjudged to be a ward of the court,
24and to determine what order of disposition should be made in
25respect to a minor adjudged to be a ward of the court.
26    (7) "Emancipated minor" means any minor 16 years of age or

 

 

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1over who has been completely or partially emancipated under the
2Emancipation of Minors Act or under this Act.
3    (8) "Guardianship of the person" of a minor means the duty
4and authority to act in the best interests of the minor,
5subject to residual parental rights and responsibilities, to
6make important decisions in matters having a permanent effect
7on the life and development of the minor and to be concerned
8with his or her general welfare. It includes but is not
9necessarily limited to:
10        (a) the authority to consent to marriage, to enlistment
11    in the armed forces of the United States, or to a major
12    medical, psychiatric, and surgical treatment; to represent
13    the minor in legal actions; and to make other decisions of
14    substantial legal significance concerning the minor;
15        (b) the authority and duty of reasonable visitation,
16    except to the extent that these have been limited in the
17    best interests of the minor by court order;
18        (c) the rights and responsibilities of legal custody
19    except where legal custody has been vested in another
20    person or agency; and
21        (d) the power to consent to the adoption of the minor,
22    but only if expressly conferred on the guardian in
23    accordance with Section 2-29, 3-30, or 4-27.
24    (9) "Legal custody" means the relationship created by an
25order of court in the best interests of the minor which imposes
26on the custodian the responsibility of physical possession of a

 

 

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1minor and the duty to protect, train and discipline him and to
2provide him with food, shelter, education and ordinary medical
3care, except as these are limited by residual parental rights
4and responsibilities and the rights and responsibilities of the
5guardian of the person, if any.
6    (9.1) "Mentally capable adult relative" means a person 21
7years of age or older who is not suffering from a mental
8illness that prevents him or her from providing the care
9necessary to safeguard the physical safety and welfare of a
10minor who is left in that person's care by the parent or
11parents or other person responsible for the minor's welfare.
12    (10) "Minor" means a person under the age of 21 years
13subject to this Act.
14    (11) "Parent" means the father or mother of a child and
15includes any adoptive parent. It also includes a man (i) whose
16paternity is presumed or has been established under the law of
17this or another jurisdiction or (ii) who has registered with
18the Putative Father Registry in accordance with Section 12.1 of
19the Adoption Act and whose paternity has not been ruled out
20under the law of this or another jurisdiction. It does not
21include a parent whose rights in respect to the minor have been
22terminated in any manner provided by law, or any man who has:
23        (a) been convicted or pled nolo contendere to any crime
24    that resulted in the conception of the child, including,
25    but not limited to, Sections 11-11, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1,
26    12-15, and 12-16 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or a similar

 

 

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1    statute in another jurisdiction; or
2        (b) been charged with any of the offenses listed in
3    subsection (a) of this item (11) or similar offenses in
4    Illinois or another jurisdiction and the Court finds, by a
5    preponderance of the evidence, that the acts occurred and
6    those acts resulted in the conception of the child.
7    (11.1) "Permanency goal" means a goal set by the court as
8defined in subdivision (2) of Section 2-28.
9    (11.2) "Permanency hearing" means a hearing to set the
10permanency goal and to review and determine (i) the
11appropriateness of the services contained in the plan and
12whether those services have been provided, (ii) whether
13reasonable efforts have been made by all the parties to the
14service plan to achieve the goal, and (iii) whether the plan
15and goal have been achieved.
16    (12) "Petition" means the petition provided for in Section
172-13, 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520, including any supplemental petitions
18thereunder in Section 3-15, 4-12 or 5-520.
19    (12.1) "Physically capable adult relative" means a person
2021 years of age or older who does not have a severe physical
21disability or medical condition, or is not suffering from
22alcoholism or drug addiction, that prevents him or her from
23providing the care necessary to safeguard the physical safety
24and welfare of a minor who is left in that person's care by the
25parent or parents or other person responsible for the minor's
26welfare.

 

 

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1    (13) "Residual parental rights and responsibilities" means
2those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent
3after the transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the
4person, including, but not necessarily limited to, the right to
5reasonable visitation (which may be limited by the court in the
6best interests of the minor as provided in subsection (8)(b) of
7this Section), the right to consent to adoption, the right to
8determine the minor's religious affiliation, and the
9responsibility for his support.
10    (14) "Shelter" means the temporary care of a minor in
11physically unrestricting facilities pending court disposition
12or execution of court order for placement.
13    (15) "Station adjustment" means the informal handling of an
14alleged offender by a juvenile police officer.
15    (16) "Ward of the court" means a minor who is so adjudged
16under Section 2-22, 3-23, 4-20 or 5-705, after a finding of the
17requisite jurisdictional facts, and thus is subject to the
18dispositional powers of the court under this Act.
19    (17) "Juvenile police officer" means a sworn police officer
20who has completed a Basic Recruit Training Course, has been
21assigned to the position of juvenile police officer by his or
22her chief law enforcement officer and has completed the
23necessary juvenile officers training as prescribed by the
24Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, or in the
25case of a State police officer, juvenile officer training
26approved by the Director of the Department of State Police.

 

 

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1    (18) "Secure child care facility" means any child care
2facility licensed by the Department of Children and Family
3Services to provide secure living arrangements for children
4under 18 years of age who are subject to placement in
5facilities under the Children and Family Services Act and who
6are not subject to placement in facilities for whom standards
7are established by the Department of Corrections under Section
83-15-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections. "Secure child care
9facility" also means a facility that is designed and operated
10to ensure that all entrances and exits from the facility, a
11building, or a distinct part of the building are under the
12exclusive control of the staff of the facility, whether or not
13the child has the freedom of movement within the perimeter of
14the facility, building, or distinct part of the building.
15(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-168, eff. 8-10-09.)
 
16    Section 10. The Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 is amended
17by changing Section 6.5 and by adding Section 4.2 as follows:
 
18    (750 ILCS 45/4.2 new)
19    Sec. 4.2. Conception as a result of a crime. In any case in
20which a child has been conceived as a result of a crime as
21defined by Article 11 or 12 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or a
22similar statute in another jurisdiction, and the biological
23father of the child has:
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1    offense; or
2        (2) been charged with any of the offenses identified in
3    this Section or similar offenses in Illinois or another
4    jurisdiction and the Court finds, by a preponderance of the
5    evidence, that the acts occurred and those acts resulted in
6    the conception of the child;
7then paternity and parental rights shall not be presumed or
8granted by any court.
 
9    (750 ILCS 45/6.5)
10    Sec. 6.5. Custody or visitation by sex offender prohibited.
11A person found to be the father of a child under this Act, and
12who has:
13        (1) been convicted of or who has pled guilty to a
14    violation of Section 11-11 (sexual relations within
15    families), Section 12-13 (criminal sexual assault),
16    Section 12-14 (aggravated criminal sexual assault),
17    Section 12-14.1 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a
18    child), Section 12-15 (criminal sexual abuse), or Section
19    12-16 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse) of the Criminal
20    Code of 1961 or a similar statute in Illinois or another
21    jurisdiction for his conduct in fathering that child, or
22        (2) been charged with any offense listed in item (1) or
23    similar offense in Illinois or another jurisdiction and the
24    Court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the
25    acts occurred and those acts resulted in the conception of

 

 

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1    that child,
2shall not be entitled to custody of or visitation with that
3child without the consent of the mother or guardian, other than
4the father of the child who has been convicted of or pled
5guilty to one of the offenses listed in this Section, or, in
6cases where the mother is a minor, the guardian of the mother
7of the child. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
8nothing in this Section shall be construed to relieve the
9father of any support and maintenance obligations to the child
10under this Act.
11(Source: P.A. 94-928, eff. 6-26-06.)".