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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6970
Introduced 02/09/04, by Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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225 ILCS 10/12 |
from Ch. 23, par. 2222 |
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Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Prohibits a licensed child welfare agency that places children for the purposes of adoption from including in any published advertisement for the agency language that offers free medical care, housing, clothing, or transportation or makes any other offer of services that the Department may reasonably construe to be an inducement or offer for compensation for making a child available for placement with the child welfare agency.
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A BILL FOR
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HB6970 |
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LRB093 16026 AMC 41651 b |
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| AN ACT concerning child care.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by |
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| changing Section 12 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 10/12) (from Ch. 23, par. 2222)
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| Sec. 12. Advertising.
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| A child care facility licensed or operating under a permit |
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| issued by the
Department may publish advertisements of the |
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| services for which it is
specifically licensed or issued a |
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| permit under this Act. No person, unless
licensed or holding a |
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| permit as a child care facility, may cause to be
published any |
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| advertisement soliciting a child or children for care or
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| placement or offering a child or children for care or |
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| placement.
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| A licensed child welfare agency that places children for |
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| the purposes of adoption may not include in any published |
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| advertisement for the agency language that offers free medical |
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| care, housing, clothing, or transportation or makes any other |
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| offer of services that the Department may reasonably construe |
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| to be an inducement or offer for compensation for making a |
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| child available for placement with the child welfare agency. |
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| This paragraph does not prohibit a child welfare agency from |
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| advertising counseling and casework services.
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| (Source: P.A. 76-63.)
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