103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3465

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Tim Ozinga

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
750 ILCS 16/25

    Amends the Non-Support Punishment Act. Beginning July 1, 2028, allows payments for support to the State Disbursement Unit to be made via an electronic funds transfer. Requires the State Disbursement Unit to establish a system to accept payments via an electronic funds transfer by July 1, 2028.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Non-Support Punishment Act is amended by
5changing Section 25 as follows:
 
6    (750 ILCS 16/25)
7    Sec. 25. Payment of support to State Disbursement Unit;
8clerk of the court.
9    (a) As used in this Section, "order for support",
10"obligor", "obligee", and "payor" mean those terms as defined
11in the Income Withholding for Support Act.
12    (b) Each order for support entered or modified under
13Section 20 of this Act shall require that support payments be
14made to the State Disbursement Unit established under the
15Illinois Public Aid Code, under the following circumstances:
16        (1) when a party to the order is receiving child
17    support enforcement services under Article X of the
18    Illinois Public Aid Code; or
19        (2) when no party to the order is receiving child
20    support enforcement services, but the support payments are
21    made through income withholding.
22    (b-5) Beginning July 1, 2028, payments made under
23subsection (b) to the State Disbursement Unit may be made via

 

 

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1an electronic funds transfer. The State Disbursement Unit
2shall establish a system to accept payments via an electronic
3funds transfer by July 1, 2028.
4    (c) When no party to the order is receiving child support
5enforcement services, and payments are not being made through
6income withholding, the court shall order the obligor to make
7support payments to the clerk of the court.
8    (d) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of an
9order directing payments to be made elsewhere, the Department
10of Healthcare and Family Services may provide notice to the
11obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's payor:
12        (1) to make support payments to the State Disbursement
13    Unit if:
14            (A) a party to the order for support is receiving
15        child support enforcement services under Article X of
16        the Illinois Public Aid Code; or
17            (B) no party to the order for support is receiving
18        child support enforcement services under Article X of
19        the Illinois Public Aid Code, but the support payments
20        are made through income withholding; or
21        (2) to make support payments to the State Disbursement
22    Unit of another state upon request of another state's
23    Title IV-D child support enforcement agency, in accordance
24    with the requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social
25    Security Act and regulations promulgated under that Part
26    D.

 

 

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1    The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
2provide a copy of the notice to the obligee and to the clerk of
3the circuit court.
4    (e) If a State Disbursement Unit as specified by federal
5law has not been created in Illinois upon the effective date of
6this Act, then, until the creation of a State Disbursement
7Unit as specified by federal law, the following provisions
8regarding payment and disbursement of support payments shall
9control and the provisions in subsections (a), (b), (c), and
10(d) shall be inoperative. Upon the creation of a State
11Disbursement Unit as specified by federal law, the payment and
12disbursement provisions of subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d)
13shall control, and this subsection (e) shall be inoperative to
14the extent that it conflicts with those subsections.
15        (1) In cases in which an order for support is entered
16    under Section 20 of this Act, the court shall order that
17    maintenance and support payments be made to the clerk of
18    the court for remittance to the person or agency entitled
19    to receive the payments. However, the court in its
20    discretion may direct otherwise where exceptional
21    circumstances so warrant.
22        (2) The court shall direct that support payments be
23    sent by the clerk to (i) the Department of Healthcare and
24    Family Services if the person in whose behalf payments are
25    made is receiving aid under Articles III, IV, or V of the
26    Illinois Public Aid Code, or child support enforcement

 

 

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1    services under Article X of the Code, or (ii) to the local
2    governmental unit responsible for the support of the
3    person if he or she is a recipient under Article VI of the
4    Code. In accordance with federal law and regulations, the
5    Department of Healthcare and Family Services may continue
6    to collect current maintenance payments or child support
7    payments, or both, after those persons cease to receive
8    public assistance and until termination of services under
9    Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code. The Department
10    shall pay the net amount collected to those persons after
11    deducting any costs incurred in making the collection or
12    any collection fee from the amount of any recovery made.
13    The order shall permit the Department of Healthcare and
14    Family Services or the local governmental unit, as the
15    case may be, to direct that support payments be made
16    directly to the spouse, children, or both, or to some
17    person or agency in their behalf, upon removal of the
18    spouse or children from the public aid rolls or upon
19    termination of services under Article X of the Illinois
20    Public Aid Code; and upon such direction, the Department
21    or the local governmental unit, as the case requires,
22    shall give notice of such action to the court in writing or
23    by electronic transmission.
24        (3) The clerk of the court shall establish and
25    maintain current records of all moneys received and
26    disbursed and of delinquencies and defaults in required

 

 

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1    payments. The court, by order or rule, shall make
2    provision for the carrying out of these duties.
3        (4) (Blank).
4        (5) Payments under this Section to the Department of
5    Healthcare and Family Services pursuant to the Child
6    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of
7    the Social Security Act shall be paid into the Child
8    Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under
9    this Section to the Department of Healthcare and Family
10    Services shall be deposited in the Public Assistance
11    Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements from these funds
12    shall be as provided in the Illinois Public Aid Code.
13    Payments received by a local governmental unit shall be
14    deposited in that unit's General Assistance Fund.
15        (6) For those cases in which child support is payable
16    to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to the
17    Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
18    Illinois Department of Public Aid) by order of court or
19    upon notification by the Department of Healthcare and
20    Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public
21    Aid), the clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4
22    working days of receipt, to insure that funds are
23    available for immediate distribution by the Department to
24    the person or entity entitled thereto in accordance with
25    standards of the Child Support Enforcement Program
26    established under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.

 

 

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1    The clerk shall notify the Department of the date of
2    receipt and amount thereof at the time of transmittal.
3    Where the clerk has entered into an agreement of
4    cooperation with the Department to record the terms of
5    child support orders and payments made thereunder directly
6    into the Department's automated data processing system,
7    the clerk shall account for, transmit and otherwise
8    distribute child support payments in accordance with such
9    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
10(Source: P.A. 94-88, eff. 1-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)