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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1966
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1966 on page 1,
3 after line 3, by inserting the following:
4 "Section 2. If and only if House Bill 5140 of the 92nd
5 General Assembly becomes law in the form in which it was
6 passed by the Senate after the adoption of Senate Amendments
7 Nos. 1 and 3, the Unified Child Support Services Act is
8 amended by replacing all of Section 10 with the following:
9 (92HB5140 engrossed, as amended by Senate Amendments Nos.
10 1 and 3, Sec. 10)
11 Sec. 10. Plan for Unified Child Support Services.
12 (a) By July 1, 2003 and by July 1 of each subsequent
13 year, a State's Attorney, in cooperation with the appropriate
14 county officials, may submit to the Department a Plan for a
15 Unified Child Support Services Program that includes all of
16 the components set forth in Section 15 of this Act and that
17 includes a projected budget of the necessary and reasonable
18 direct and indirect costs for operation of the Program. The
19 Plan may provide for phasing in the Program with different
20 implementation dates. The Plan must be approved by the
21 appropriate county board before submission to the Department.
22 (b) By December 1 of the year in which a Plan is
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1 submitted, the Department shall approve or reject the Plan.
2 If the Plan is approved, the Department and the State's
3 Attorney shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement
4 incorporating the Plan, subject to the approval of the
5 Attorney General and the appropriate county board. If the
6 Plan is rejected, the Department must set forth (i) specific
7 reasons that the Plan fails to satisfy the specific goals and
8 requirements of this Act or other State or federal
9 requirements and (ii) specific reasons that the necessary and
10 reasonable costs for operation of the Plan could not be
11 agreed upon.
12 (c) Any State's Attorney who submits a Plan pursuant to
13 this Act shall commit to manage the Program for a period of
14 no less than 3 years.
15 (d) If a Plan is rejected, or if for any reason an
16 intergovernmental agreement is not signed, the prior
17 agreement under this Act shall continue in effect until a new
18 intergovernmental agreement is signed or the agreement is
19 terminated.
20 (e) The Department may impose a restriction that no more
21 than 3 State's Attorneys may begin operating a Program in a
22 given year. The Department shall develop a procedure for fair
23 and orderly consideration of Plans as they are submitted or
24 as interest by a State's Attorney is otherwise demonstrated.
25 (f) In any county in which a Unified Child Support
26 Services Program is operating, the Clerk of the Circuit Court
27 may submit to the Department a plan for filing, recording,
28 and making available for retrieval all administrative orders
29 of parentage and administrative orders setting, modifying, or
30 terminating child support obligations for all IV-D cases
31 pending in the county on the implementation date of the
32 Program and all new cases in the IV-D Child Support Program.
33 The Department shall approve or reject the plan, according to
34 the criteria set forth in subsection (b), and shall enter
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1 into the appropriate intergovernmental agreement
2 incorporating the plan unless the Department can demonstrate
3 that it has an alternative approach.
4 (Source: 92HB5140 engrossed, as amended by Senate Amendments
5 Nos. 1 and 3.)".