Public Act 097-0735
 
SB2820 EnrolledLRB097 15710 KTG 61082 b


  
    AN ACT concerning public aid.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended  by 
changing Section 12-8 as follows:
 
    (305 ILCS 5/12-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 12-8)

    Sec. 12-8. Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund - 
Uses.  The
Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund, 
established by Act approved
July 8, 1955 shall be held by the 
Illinois Department and shall be used
for the following 
purposes:


        1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants in 
    acute need
who have been determined eligible for aid under 
    Articles III, IV, or V.


        2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said 
    Articles who
have failed to receive their grants because of 
    mail box or other thefts,
or who are victims of a burnout, 
    eviction, or other circumstances
causing privation, in 
    which cases the delays incident to the issuance of
grants 
    from appropriations would cause hardship and suffering.


        3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals 
    and lodging to
applicants who are referred to cities other 
    than where they reside for
physical examinations to 
    establish blindness or disability, or to
determine the 
    incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.


        4. To provide emergency transportation expense 
    allowances to
recipients engaged in vocational training 
    and rehabilitation projects.


        5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining copies 
    of birth
certificates, death certificates, marriage 
    licenses or other similar legal
documents which may 
    facilitate the verification of eligibility for public
aid 
    under this Code.


        6. To provide immediate payments to current or former 
    recipients of
child support enforcement services, or 
    refunds to responsible
relatives, for child support
made to 
    the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social 
    Security Act
when such recipients of services or 
    responsible relatives are legally
entitled to all or part 
    of such child support payments under applicable
State or 
    federal law.


        7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of 
    transportation to
and from medical care for the benefit of 
    recipients under Articles III, IV,
V, and VI.


        8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows: 
            (A)  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. 
            (B)  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. 
            (C)  To State and local officials in connection with 
        the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic

        Relations Orders. 
    Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency 
Revolving Fund
shall be made by the Illinois Department.


    Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency 
Revolving Fund
shall be for purposes which are properly 
chargeable to appropriations
made to the Illinois Department, 
or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8 
subparagraph
6, to the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or 
the Child Support Administrative Fund, except that no 
expenditure, other than payment of the fees provided for under 
subparagraph 8 of this Section,
shall be made for purposes 
which are properly chargeable to appropriations
for the 
following objects: personal services; extra help; state 
contributions
to retirement system; state contributions to 
Social Security; state
contributions for employee group 
insurance; contractual services; travel;
commodities; 
printing; equipment; electronic data processing; operation of

auto equipment; telecommunications services; library books; 
and refunds.
The Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public 
Assistance Emergency
Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the 
State Comptroller on the
appropriation or appropriations which 
are so chargeable, or, in the case of
payments under 
subparagraphs 6 and 8 subparagraph 6, by warrants drawn on the 
Child Support
Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support 
Administrative Fund, payable to the Revolving Fund.



(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02; 92-590, eff. 7-1-02; 93-632, 
eff. 2-1-04.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.