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90_SB0947

      30 ILCS 210/5             from Ch. 15, par. 151
          Amends  the  Illinois  State  Collection  Act  of   1986.
      Provides  that  all  debts owed to a State agency that exceed
      $1,000 and are more than 90 days (now 1 year) past due  shall
      be  placed  in  the  Comptroller's  Offset System, unless the
      State agency has entered into  a  deferred  payment  plan  or
      demonstrates that referral for offset is not cost effective.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois State Collection Act of 1986
 2    by changing Section 5.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Illinois State Collection Act of 1986 is
 6    amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 7        (30 ILCS 210/5) (from Ch. 15, par. 155)
 8        Sec. 5.  Rules; payment plans; offsets.
 9        (a) State agencies shall adopt rules establishing  formal
10    due dates for amounts owing to the State and for the referral
11    of   seriously   past  due  accounts  to  private  collection
12    agencies, unless otherwise expressly provided by law or rule.
13    Such procedures shall be established  in  accord  with  sound
14    business practices.
15        (b)  Agencies   may  enter  deferred  payment  plans  for
16    debtors of the agency and documentation of this fact retained
17    by the agency, where the deferred payment plan is  likely  to
18    increase the net amount collected by the State.
19        (c)  State  agencies  may  use  the  Comptroller's Offset
20    System provided in Section 10.05 of the State Comptroller Act
21    for the collection of debts owed to the  agency.   All  debts
22    that  exceed $1,000 and are more than 90 days 1 year past due
23    shall be placed in the Comptroller's  Offset  System,  unless
24    the  State  agency shall have entered into a deferred payment
25    plan or demonstrates to the Comptroller's  satisfaction  that
26    referral for offset is not cost effective.
27        (d)  State  agencies  shall  develop  internal procedures
28    whereby agency initiated  payments  to  its  debtors  may  be
29    offset without referral to the Comptroller's Offset System.
30        (e)  State  agencies or the Comptroller may remove claims
31    from the Comptroller's Offset System, where such claims  have
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 1    been inactive for more than one year.
 2    (Source: P.A. 85-814.)

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