Sen. Donne E. Trotter
Filed: 2/26/2014
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3283
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3283 as follows:
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| 3 | on page 7, line 20, by deleting "whether related or"; and | ||||||
| 4 | on page 9, immediately below line 15, by inserting the | ||||||
| 5 | following: | ||||||
| 6 | "Section 10. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by | ||||||
| 7 | changing Sections 2.04 and 2.17 as follows:
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| 8 | (225 ILCS 10/2.04) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212.04)
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| 9 | Sec. 2.04.
"Related" means any of the following | ||||||
| 10 | relationships by
blood, marriage, or adoption: parent, | ||||||
| 11 | grandparent, great-grandparent, great-uncle,
great-aunt, | ||||||
| 12 | brother, sister,
stepparent, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, | ||||||
| 13 | aunt, nephew, niece, fictive kin as defined in Section 7 of the | ||||||
| 14 | Children and Family Services Act, or
first cousin.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 80-459.)
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| 2 | (225 ILCS 10/2.17) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212.17)
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| 3 | Sec. 2.17.
"Foster family home" means a facility for child | ||||||
| 4 | care in
residences of families who receive no more than 8 | ||||||
| 5 | children unrelated to them,
unless all the children are of | ||||||
| 6 | common parentage, or residences of relatives who
receive no | ||||||
| 7 | more than 8 related children placed by the Department, unless | ||||||
| 8 | the
children are of common parentage, for the purpose of | ||||||
| 9 | providing family care and
training for the children on a | ||||||
| 10 | full-time basis, except the Director of Children
and Family | ||||||
| 11 | Services, pursuant to Department regulations, may waive the | ||||||
| 12 | limit of
8 children unrelated to an adoptive family for good | ||||||
| 13 | cause and only to
facilitate an adoptive placement. The | ||||||
| 14 | family's or relative's own children,
under 18 years of age, | ||||||
| 15 | shall be included in determining the
maximum number of children | ||||||
| 16 | served. For purposes of this Section, a "relative"
includes any | ||||||
| 17 | person, 21 years of age or over, other than the parent, who (i) | ||||||
| 18 | is
currently related to the child in any of the following ways | ||||||
| 19 | by blood or
adoption: grandparent, sibling, great-grandparent, | ||||||
| 20 | uncle, aunt, nephew, niece,
first cousin, great-uncle, or | ||||||
| 21 | great-aunt; or (ii) is the spouse of such a
relative; or (iii) | ||||||
| 22 | is a child's step-father, step-mother, or adult step-brother
or | ||||||
| 23 | step-sister; or (iv) is a fictive kin; "relative" also includes | ||||||
| 24 | a person related in any of the
foregoing ways to a sibling of a | ||||||
| 25 | child, even though the person is not related
to the child, when | ||||||
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| 1 | the child and its sibling are placed together with that
person. | ||||||
| 2 | The term "foster family home" includes homes receiving children | ||||||
| 3 | from
any State-operated institution for child care; or from any | ||||||
| 4 | agency established
by a municipality or other political | ||||||
| 5 | subdivision of the State of Illinois
authorized to provide care | ||||||
| 6 | for children outside their own homes. The term
"foster family | ||||||
| 7 | home" does not include an "adoption-only home" as defined in
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| 8 | Section 2.23 of this Act. The types of
foster family homes are | ||||||
| 9 | defined as follows:
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| 10 | (a) "Boarding home" means a foster family home which | ||||||
| 11 | receives payment
for regular full-time care of a child or | ||||||
| 12 | children.
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| 13 | (b) "Free home" means a foster family home other than an | ||||||
| 14 | adoptive home
which does not receive payments for the care of a | ||||||
| 15 | child or children.
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| 16 | (c) "Adoptive home" means a foster family home which | ||||||
| 17 | receives a child or
children for the purpose of adopting the | ||||||
| 18 | child or children.
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| 19 | (d) "Work-wage home" means a foster family home which | ||||||
| 20 | receives a child
or children who pay part or all of their board | ||||||
| 21 | by rendering some services
to the family not prohibited by the | ||||||
| 22 | Child Labor Law or by standards or
regulations of the | ||||||
| 23 | Department prescribed under this Act. The child or
children may | ||||||
| 24 | receive a wage in connection with the services rendered the
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| 25 | foster family.
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| 26 | (e) "Agency-supervised home" means a foster family home | ||||||
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| 1 | under the direct
and regular supervision of a licensed child | ||||||
| 2 | welfare agency, of the
Department of Children and Family | ||||||
| 3 | Services, of a circuit court, or of any
other State agency | ||||||
| 4 | which has authority to place children in child care
facilities, | ||||||
| 5 | and which receives no more than 8 children, unless of common
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| 6 | parentage, who are placed and are regularly supervised by one | ||||||
| 7 | of the
specified agencies.
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| 8 | (f) "Independent home" means a foster family home, other | ||||||
| 9 | than an
adoptive home, which receives no more than 4 children, | ||||||
| 10 | unless of common
parentage, directly from parents, or other | ||||||
| 11 | legally responsible persons, by
independent arrangement and | ||||||
| 12 | which is not subject to direct and regular
supervision of a | ||||||
| 13 | specified agency except as such supervision pertains to
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| 14 | licensing by the Department.
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| 15 | (Source: P.A. 92-318, eff. 1-1-02.)".
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