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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 12-8 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/12-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 12-8)
7    Sec. 12-8. Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund -
8Uses. The Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund,
9established by Act approved July 8, 1955 shall be held by the
10Illinois Department and shall be used for the following
11purposes:
12        1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants in
13    acute need who have been determined eligible for aid under
14    Articles III, IV, or V.
15        2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said
16    Articles who have failed to receive their grants because of
17    mail box or other thefts, or who are victims of a burnout,
18    eviction, or other circumstances causing privation, in
19    which cases the delays incident to the issuance of grants
20    from appropriations would cause hardship and suffering.
21        3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals
22    and lodging to applicants who are referred to cities other
23    than where they reside for physical examinations to

 

 

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1    establish blindness or disability, or to determine the
2    incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.
3        4. To provide emergency transportation expense
4    allowances to recipients engaged in vocational training
5    and rehabilitation projects.
6        5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining copies
7    of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage
8    licenses or other similar legal documents which may
9    facilitate the verification of eligibility for public aid
10    under this Code.
11        6. To provide immediate payments to current or former
12    recipients of child support enforcement services, or
13    refunds to responsible relatives, for child support made to
14    the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social
15    Security Act when such recipients of services or
16    responsible relatives are legally entitled to all or part
17    of such child support payments under applicable State or
18    federal law.
19        7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of
20    transportation to and from medical care for the benefit of
21    recipients under Articles III, IV, V, and VI.
22        8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows:
23            (A) To sheriffs and other public officials
24        authorized by law to serve process in judicial and
25        administrative child support actions in the State of
26        Illinois and other states.

 

 

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1            (B) To county clerks, recorders of deeds, and other
2        public officials and keepers of real property records
3        in order to perfect and release real property liens.
4            (C) To State and local officials in connection with
5        the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic
6        Relations Orders.
7    Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency
8Revolving Fund shall be made by the Illinois Department.
9    Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency
10Revolving Fund shall be for purposes which are properly
11chargeable to appropriations made to the Illinois Department,
12or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8
13subparagraph 6, to the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or
14the Child Support Administrative Fund, except that no
15expenditure, other than payment of the fees provided for under
16subparagraph 8 of this Section, shall be made for purposes
17which are properly chargeable to appropriations for the
18following objects: personal services; extra help; state
19contributions to retirement system; state contributions to
20Social Security; state contributions for employee group
21insurance; contractual services; travel; commodities;
22printing; equipment; electronic data processing; operation of
23auto equipment; telecommunications services; library books;
24and refunds. The Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public
25Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the
26State Comptroller on the appropriation or appropriations which

 

 

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1are so chargeable, or, in the case of payments under
2subparagraphs 6 and 8 subparagraph 6, by warrants drawn on the
3Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support
4Administrative Fund, payable to the Revolving Fund.
5(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02; 92-590, eff. 7-1-02; 93-632,
6eff. 2-1-04.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.