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90_HB2050eng

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          Amends the Attorney General Act, the Public Aid Code, the
      Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support  of
      Spouse  and  Children  Act,  the  Revised  Uniform Reciprocal
      Enforcement of Support Act,  the  Uniform  Interstate  Family
      Support Act, the Expedited Child Support Act of 1990, and the
      Illinois  Parentage  Act  of  1984.   Transfers child support
      collection functions from the Department of Public Aid to the
      Attorney General.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by  changing
 2    Section 10-1.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 10-1 as follows:
 7        (305 ILCS 5/10-1) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-1)
 8        Sec.   10-1.    Declaration  of  public  policy;  persons
 9    eligible for child and  spouse  support  services;  fees  for
10    non-applicants  and non-recipients.) It is the intent of this
11    Code that the  financial  aid  and  social  welfare  services
12    herein  provided in this Code supplement rather than supplant
13    the primary and continuing obligation of the family unit  for
14    self-support to the fullest extent permitted by the resources
15    available  to  it.  This  primary  and  continuing obligation
16    applies whether the family unit of parents and children or of
17    husband and wife remains  intact  and  resides  in  a  common
18    household  or  whether the unit has been broken by absence of
19    one or more members of  the  unit.   The  obligation  of  the
20    family  unit  is  particularly applicable when a member is in
21    necessitous circumstances and lacks the means of a livelihood
22    compatible with health and well-being.
23        It is the purpose of this Article to provide for locating
24    an absent parent  or  spouse,  for  determining  his  or  her
25    financial  circumstances,  and for enforcing his or her legal
26    obligation of support, if  he  or  she  is  able  to  furnish
27    support,  in  whole  or  in part.  The Illinois Department of
28    Public Aid shall give priority to establishing, enforcing and
29    collecting the current support obligation, and then  to  past
30    due  support  owed to the family unit, except with respect to
31    collections effected through the intercept programs  provided
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 1    for in this Article.
 2        The child and spouse support services provided under this
 3    Article  hereunder shall be furnished dependents of an absent
 4    parent or spouse who are applicants  for  or   recipients  of
 5    financial  aid  under  this  Code.   It  is  not,  however, a
 6    condition of eligibility for financial aid that there  be  no
 7    responsible  relatives  who  are  reasonably  able to provide
 8    support. Nor, except as provided in Sections 4-1.7 and  10-8,
 9    shall  the existence of those such relatives or their payment
10    of  support  contributions  disqualify  a  needy  person  for
11    financial aid.
12        By accepting financial aid under this Code, a spouse or a
13    parent or other person having custody of  a  child  shall  be
14    deemed to have made assignment to the Illinois Department for
15    aid  under  Articles  III,  IV,  V  and  VII  or  to  a local
16    governmental unit for aid under Article VI  of  any  and  all
17    rights,  title,  and interest in any support obligation up to
18    the amount of financial aid provided.  The rights to  support
19    assigned  to  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid or local
20    governmental unit shall constitute  an  obligation  owed  the
21    State  or  local  governmental  unit  by  the  person  who is
22    responsible  for  providing  the  support,   and   shall   be
23    collectible under all applicable processes.
24        At  the  discretion  of the Illinois Department of Public
25    Aid, the child and spouse support services established  under
26    this  Article  may also be furnished in behalf of spouses and
27    dependent children who are not applicants for  or  recipients
28    of  financial  aid under this Code.  The Department may limit
29    eligibility of these persons to  designated  income  classes.
30    If   non-applicants  and  non-recipients  are  included,  the
31    Department may establish a schedule of reasonable fees, to be
32    paid for the services provided and may  deduct  a  collection
33    fee, not to exceed 10% of the amount collected, from the such
34    collection. The Illinois Department of Public Aid shall cause
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 1    to  be  published  and  distributed  publications  reasonably
 2    calculated  to inform the public that individuals who are not
 3    recipients of or applicants for public aid  under  this  Code
 4    are  eligible for the child and spouse support services under
 5    this Article X.  The Such publications  shall  set  forth  an
 6    explanation,  in  plain  language,  that the child and spouse
 7    support services program is independent  of  any  public  aid
 8    program  under  the  Code and that the receiving of child and
 9    spouse support service in no  way  implies  that  the  person
10    receiving the such service is receiving public aid.
11    (Source: P.A. 85-597.)

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