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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 25.4 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (410 ILCS 535/25.4 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 25.4. Youth in care birth record request. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) For the purposes of this Section, an individual's | ||||||
| 9 | status as a youth in care may be verified: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) with a copy of the court order placing the youth in | ||||||
| 11 | the guardianship or custody of the Department of Children | ||||||
| 12 | and Family Services or terminating the Department of | ||||||
| 13 | Children and Family Services' guardianship or custody of | ||||||
| 14 | the youth; or | ||||||
| 15 | (2) by a human services agency, legal services agency, | ||||||
| 16 | or other similar agency that has knowledge of the | ||||||
| 17 | individual's youth in care status, including, but not | ||||||
| 18 | limited to: | ||||||
| 19 | (A) a child welfare agency, including the | ||||||
| 20 | Department of Children and Family Services; or | ||||||
| 21 | (B) the attorney or guardian ad litem who served as | ||||||
| 22 | the youth in care's attorney or guardian ad litem | ||||||
| 23 | during proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act. | ||||||
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| 1 | A person described in subsection (b) of this Section must | ||||||
| 2 | not be charged for verification under this Section. | ||||||
| 3 | A person who knowingly or purposefully falsifies this | ||||||
| 4 | verification is subject to a penalty of $100. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) The applicable fees under Section 25 of this Act for a | ||||||
| 6 | search for a birth record or a certified copy of a birth record | ||||||
| 7 | shall be waived for all requests made by: | ||||||
| 8 | (1) a youth in care, as defined in Section 4d of the | ||||||
| 9 | Children and Family Services Act, whose status is verified | ||||||
| 10 | under subsection (a) of this Section; or | ||||||
| 11 | (2) a person under the age of 27 who was a youth in | ||||||
| 12 | care, as defined in Section 4d of the Children and Family | ||||||
| 13 | Services Act, on or after his or her 18th birthday and | ||||||
| 14 | whose status is verified under subsection (a) of this | ||||||
| 15 | Section. | ||||||
| 16 | The State Registrar of Vital Records shall establish | ||||||
| 17 | standards and procedures consistent with this Section for | ||||||
| 18 | waiver of the applicable fees. | ||||||
| 19 | (c) A person shall be provided no more than 4 birth records | ||||||
| 20 | annually under this Section.
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