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SB2820 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB2820

 

Introduced 1/18/2012, by Sen. Iris Y. Martinez

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/12-8  from Ch. 23, par. 12-8

    Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund shall be held for the additional following purpose: to provide immediate payment of fees (i) to sheriffs and other public officials authorized by law to serve process in judicial and administrative child support actions in the State of Illinois and other states; (ii) to county clerks, recorders of deeds, and other public officials and keepers of real property records in order to perfect and release real property liens; and (iii) to State and local officials in connection with the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic Relations Orders. Includes the Child Support Administrative Fund as a receiving fund for expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 12-8 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/12-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 12-8)
7    Sec. 12-8. Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund -
8Uses. The Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund,
9established by Act approved July 8, 1955 shall be held by the
10Illinois Department and shall be used for the following
11purposes:
12        1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants in
13    acute need who have been determined eligible for aid under
14    Articles III, IV, or V.
15        2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said
16    Articles who have failed to receive their grants because of
17    mail box or other thefts, or who are victims of a burnout,
18    eviction, or other circumstances causing privation, in
19    which cases the delays incident to the issuance of grants
20    from appropriations would cause hardship and suffering.
21        3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals
22    and lodging to applicants who are referred to cities other
23    than where they reside for physical examinations to

 

 

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1    establish blindness or disability, or to determine the
2    incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.
3        4. To provide emergency transportation expense
4    allowances to recipients engaged in vocational training
5    and rehabilitation projects.
6        5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining copies
7    of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage
8    licenses or other similar legal documents which may
9    facilitate the verification of eligibility for public aid
10    under this Code.
11        6. To provide immediate payments to current or former
12    recipients of child support enforcement services, or
13    refunds to responsible relatives, for child support made to
14    the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social
15    Security Act when such recipients of services or
16    responsible relatives are legally entitled to all or part
17    of such child support payments under applicable State or
18    federal law.
19        7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of
20    transportation to and from medical care for the benefit of
21    recipients under Articles III, IV, V, and VI.
22        8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows:
23            (A) To sheriffs and other public officials
24        authorized by law to serve process in judicial and
25        administrative child support actions in the State of
26        Illinois and other states.

 

 

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1            (B) To county clerks, recorders of deeds, and other
2        public officials and keepers of real property records
3        in order to perfect and release real property liens.
4            (C) To State and local officials in connection with
5        the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic
6        Relations Orders.
7    Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency
8Revolving Fund shall be made by the Illinois Department.
9    Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency
10Revolving Fund shall be for purposes which are properly
11chargeable to appropriations made to the Illinois Department,
12or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8
13subparagraph 6, to the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or
14the Child Support Administrative Fund, except that no
15expenditure shall be made for purposes which are properly
16chargeable to appropriations for the following objects:
17personal services; extra help; state contributions to
18retirement system; state contributions to Social Security;
19state contributions for employee group insurance; contractual
20services; travel; commodities; printing; equipment; electronic
21data processing; operation of auto equipment;
22telecommunications services; library books; and refunds. The
23Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public Assistance
24Emergency Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the State
25Comptroller on the appropriation or appropriations which are so
26chargeable, or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6

 

 

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1and 8 subparagraph 6, by warrants drawn on the Child Support
2Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support Administrative
3Fund, payable to the Revolving Fund.
4(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02; 92-590, eff. 7-1-02; 93-632,
5eff. 2-1-04.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.