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[ Engrossed ][ House Amendment 002 ]

90_HB2359

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          Amends the Child Support Information  Act,  the  Attorney
      General  Act,  the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the
      Intergovernmental Cooperation Act,  the  New  Hire  Reporting
      Act,  the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Illinois
      Public Aid Code, the Vital Records Act, the Fish and  Aquatic
      Life  Code, the Wildlife Code, the Illinois Vehicle Code, the
      Attorney  Act,  the  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
      Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the
      Uniform Interstate Family Support Act,  the  Expedited  Child
      Support  Act of 1990, the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, and
      the Unemployment  Insurance  Act.   Transfers  child  support
      collection functions from the Department of Public Aid to the
      Attorney General.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT concerning child support, amending named Acts.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 2.  The Child Support Information Act is  amended
 5    by changing Section 10 as follows:
 6        (5 ILCS 405/10)
 7        Sec.  10.   Statement of child support obligation.  As of
 8    the effective date of this Act,  any  employment  application
 9    forms  used  by any State agency shall include a statement to
10    be signed by the applicant concerning whether  the  applicant
11    has   a   child   support   obligation   under   a  court  or
12    administrative order for support and, if  so,  providing  the
13    names of the obligee and the child or children covered by the
14    order,  the  name of the court or administrative agency which
15    issued the order, the order number, and whether the applicant
16    is in default of the obligation.  The fact that an  applicant
17    or  an  employee has a child support obligation with which he
18    or she is in default shall not be grounds for refusal to hire
19    the applicant or for discharge of the employee.
20        Upon hiring the applicant, the State agency shall provide
21    the statement of child support  obligation  to  the  Attorney
22    General  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid for its use in
23    accordance with Section 7.245 10-22 of the  Attorney  General
24    Act Illinois Public Aid Code.
25    (Source: P.A. 87-1172.)
26        Section 5.  The Attorney General Act is amended by adding
27    Sections 7.1 through 7.295 as follows:
28        (15 ILCS 205/7.1 new)
29        Sec.  7.1.  Transfer  of powers from Department of Public
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 1    Aid.
 2        (a)  On the effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of
 3    1997, all the rights, powers, and duties vested by law in the
 4    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid or the Department's Child
 5    and Spouse Support Unit  under  Article  X  of  the  Illinois
 6    Public  Aid  Code  are  transferred  to the Attorney General.
 7    Wherever, in any other Act,  there  is  a  reference  to  the
 8    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid or the Department's Child
 9    and Spouse Support Unit or to an officer, employee, or  agent
10    of  that  Department  or  Unit concerning rights, powers, and
11    duties vested or performed under the authority of  Article  X
12    of the Illinois Public Aid Code, that reference, beginning on
13    the  effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, means the
14    Attorney  General,  the  Child  and   Spouse   Support   Unit
15    established  under  Section  7.20 of this Act, or an officer,
16    employee, or agent of the Attorney General or the  Child  and
17    Spouse Support Unit established under Section 7.20.
18        (b)  All  books, records, property, pending business, and
19    funds  pertaining  to  the   rights,   powers,   and   duties
20    transferred  under  this  Section  and  in the custody of the
21    Illinois Department of Public Aid or the  Department's  Child
22    and  Spouse  Support  Unit  on  the  effective  date  of this
23    amendatory Act of 1997 shall be delivered and transferred  to
24    the Attorney General on that date.
25        (c)  Beginning  on  the effective date of this amendatory
26    Act of 1997, the rights, powers, and  duties  transferred  by
27    this  Section  to the Attorney General shall be vested in and
28    shall be exercised by the Attorney  General  subject  to  the
29    provisions  of  this Section through Section 7.295.  Each act
30    done in the exercise of  those  rights,  powers,  and  duties
31    shall  have  the same legal effect as if done by the Illinois
32    Department of Public  Aid  or  that  Department's  Child  and
33    Spouse Support Unit.
34        (d)  Beginning  on  the effective date of this amendatory
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 1    Act of 1997, every person and other  legal  entity  shall  be
 2    subject  to  the  same  obligations and duties, and civil and
 3    criminal penalties arising from those obligations and duties,
 4    and shall have the same rights arising from the  exercise  of
 5    rights,  powers,  and  duties  by  the Attorney General or an
 6    officer, employee, or agent of the Attorney  General,  as  if
 7    those  rights,  powers, and duties have been exercised by the
 8    Illinois Department of Public Aid,  that  Department's  Child
 9    and Spouse Support Unit, or an officer, employee, or agent of
10    that Department or Unit.
11        (e)  Whenever  reports  or notices are now required to be
12    made or given or papers or documents furnished or  served  by
13    any  person  to or upon the Illinois Department of Public Aid
14    or that Department's Child  and  Spouse  Support  Unit  under
15    Article  X  of the Illinois Public Aid Code, those reports or
16    notices shall, on  and  after  the  effective  date  of  this
17    amendatory  Act of 1997, be made, given, furnished, or served
18    in the same manner to or upon the Attorney General.
19        (f)  The provisions of this Section through Section 7.295
20    do not affect any act done, ratified, or  cancelled,  or  any
21    right  occurring  or established, or any action or proceeding
22    had or commenced in an  administrative,  civil,  or  criminal
23    cause  before  the  effective  date of this amendatory Act of
24    1997 by  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  or  that
25    Department's Child and Spouse Support Unit under Article X of
26    the   Illinois   Public   Aid  Code,  and  those  actions  or
27    proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by  the  Attorney
28    General.
29        (g)  No  by-law,  rule,  or  regulation  adopted  by  the
30    Illinois  Department of Public Aid as an exercise of a right,
31    power, or duty that has  been  transferred  to  the  Attorney
32    General  under  this  Section  through Section 7.295 shall be
33    affected by those Sections.  On the effective  date  of  this
34    amendatory Act of 1997, those by-laws, rules, and regulations
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 1    shall  become  the  by-laws,  rules,  and  regulations of the
 2    Attorney General.
 3        (h)  If waivers of any  federal  law  or  regulation  are
 4    necessary  to  enable  the  Attorney General to implement any
 5    provisions of this  amendatory  Act  of  1997,  the  Attorney
 6    General, promptly after the effective date of this amendatory
 7    Act   of   1997,   shall   apply   for   those  waivers,  and
 8    implementation of those  provisions  is  conditioned  on  the
 9    Attorney General's receipt of those waivers.
10        (i)  Personnel  employed  by  the  Illinois Department of
11    Public Aid to perform functions that are transferred by  this
12    amendatory  Act  of  1997 to the Attorney General shall, upon
13    the effective date of this amendatory  Act  of  1997,  become
14    employees of the Office of the Attorney General.
15        (j)  Personnel  employed  by the Department of Public Aid
16    to perform functions that are  not  clearly  classifiable  as
17    being related to the determination and enforcement of support
18    responsibility  of  relatives under Article X of the Illinois
19    Public Aid Code  or  who  are  employed  to  perform  complex
20    functions  that  are transferred only in part to the Attorney
21    General under this amendatory Act of 1997 shall  be  assigned
22    to  the  appropriate Department by the Director of Public Aid
23    and the Attorney General, in consultation with  the  Director
24    of Central Management Services.
25        (k)  The  rights  of  State employees, the State, and its
26    agencies under applicable  collective  bargaining  agreements
27    and  retirement plans are not affected by this amendatory Act
28    of 1997.
29        (15 ILCS 205/7.5 new)
30        Sec. 7.5.  Public policy; persons eligible for  services;
31    fees.  It  is the intent of the Illinois Public Aid Code that
32    the financial aid and social welfare services provided  under
33    that  Code  supplement  rather  than supplant the primary and
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 1    continuing obligation of the family unit for self-support  to
 2    the  fullest  extent  permitted by the resources available to
 3    it. This primary and continuing  obligation  applies  whether
 4    the  family  unit  of  parents and children or of husband and
 5    wife remains intact and resides  in  a  common  household  or
 6    whether  the  unit  has been broken by absence of one or more
 7    members of the unit.  The obligation of the  family  unit  is
 8    particularly  applicable  when  a  member  is  in necessitous
 9    circumstances and lacks the means of a livelihood  compatible
10    with health and well-being.
11        It  is  the  purpose  of  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 to
12    provide  for  locating  an  absent  parent  or  spouse,   for
13    determining  his  financial  circumstances, and for enforcing
14    his legal obligation of support, if he  is  able  to  furnish
15    support,  in  whole  or  in part.  The Attorney General shall
16    give priority to establishing, enforcing and  collecting  the
17    current support obligation, and then to past due support owed
18    to  the  family  unit,  except  with  respect  to collections
19    effected through  the  intercept  programs  provided  for  in
20    Sections 7.1 through 7.295.
21        The  child  and  spouse  support  services provided under
22    Sections 7.1 through 7.295 shall be furnished  dependents  of
23    an  absent  parent  or  spouse  who  are  applicants  for  or
24    recipients  of  financial  aid  under the Illinois Public Aid
25    Code.  It is not, however, a  condition  of  eligibility  for
26    financial  aid  under  that Code that there be no responsible
27    relatives who are reasonably able to  provide  support.  Nor,
28    except  as provided in Section 4-1.7 of that Code and Section
29    7.50 of this Act, shall the existence of  such  relatives  or
30    their  payment  of  support  contributions disqualify a needy
31    person for financial aid.
32        By accepting financial aid under the Illinois Public  Aid
33    Code,  a spouse or a parent or other person having custody of
34    a child shall be deemed to have made assignment to the  State
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 1    of  Illinois  (for  aid under Articles III, IV, V, and VII of
 2    that Code) or to a local governmental  unit  (for  aid  under
 3    Article  VI  of that Code) of all rights, title, and interest
 4    in any support obligation up to the amount of  financial  aid
 5    provided  by that department or local governmental unit.  The
 6    rights to support assigned to the State of Illinois or  local
 7    governmental  unit  shall  constitute  an obligation owed the
 8    State or  local  governmental  unit  by  the  person  who  is
 9    responsible   for   providing   the  support,  and  shall  be
10    collectible under all applicable processes.
11        The Attorney General shall also  furnish  the  child  and
12    spouse   support  services  established  under  Sections  7.1
13    through 7.295 in behalf of spouses and dependent children who
14    are not applicants for or recipients of financial  aid  under
15    the   Illinois   Public  Aid  Code  in  accordance  with  the
16    requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social Security  Act.
17    The  Attorney  General may establish a schedule of reasonable
18    fees, to be paid for the services provided and may  deduct  a
19    collection  fee,  not  to exceed 10% of the amount collected,
20    from such collection. The Attorney General shall cause to  be
21    published  and distributed publications reasonably calculated
22    to inform the public that individuals who are not  recipients
23    of or applicants for public aid under the Illinois Public Aid
24    Code  are  eligible for the child and spouse support services
25    under Sections 7.1 through 7.295.   Such  publications  shall
26    set  forth  an explanation, in plain language, that the child
27    and spouse support services program  is  independent  of  any
28    public  aid  program under the Code and that the receiving of
29    child and spouse support service in no way implies  that  the
30    person receiving such service is receiving public aid.
31        (15 ILCS 205/7.10 new)
32        Sec.  7.10.  Extent of liability. A husband is liable for
33    the support of his wife and a wife for  the  support  of  her
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 1    husband. The parents are severally liable  for the support of
 2    any  child  under  the age of 18, except that a parent is not
 3    liable for a child of any age if the child has married and is
 4    not living with the parent  or  parents.   The  term  "child"
 5    includes  a  child  born  out  of  wedlock or legally adopted
 6    child.
 7        In addition to the primary obligation of support  imposed
 8    upon  responsible  relatives, such relatives, if individually
 9    or together in any combination they have sufficient income or
10    other resources to support a needy person,  in  whole  or  in
11    part,  shall  be  liable for any financial aid extended under
12    the Illinois Public Aid Code to a person  for  whose  support
13    they  are responsible, including amounts expended for funeral
14    and burial costs.
15        (15 ILCS 205/7.15 new)
16        Sec. 7.15.  Standard for determining ability to  support.
17    The  Attorney  General  shall  establish  a standard by which
18    shall be measured the ability  of  responsible  relatives  to
19    provide  support,  and  shall implement the standard by rules
20    governing its application.  The standard and the rules  shall
21    take  into  account  the  buying  and consumption patterns of
22    self-supporting persons of modest income, present  or  future
23    contingencies  having  direct  bearing  on maintenance of the
24    relative's  self-support  status  and  fulfillment   of   his
25    obligations  to  his  immediate  family,  and  any unusual or
26    exceptional circumstances  including  estrangement  or  other
27    personal  or  social  factors,  that have a bearing on family
28    relationships and the relative's ability to meet his  support
29    obligations.   The  standard shall be recomputed periodically
30    to reflect changes in the cost of living and other  pertinent
31    factors.
32        In  addition  to  the  standard, the Attorney General may
33    establish guidelines to be used exclusively  to  measure  the
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 1    ability of responsible relatives to provide support on behalf
 2    of  applicants  for  or  recipients  of  financial  aid under
 3    Article IV of the Illinois Public Aid Code and other  persons
 4    who are given access to the child and spouse support services
 5    of  Sections  7.1  through  7.295  of this Act as provided in
 6    Section 7.5.  In such case, the Attorney General  shall  base
 7    the  guidelines  upon  the  applicable provisions of Sections
 8    504, 505 and 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage  and  Dissolution
 9    of  Marriage Act and shall implement such guidelines by rules
10    governing their application.
11        The term "administration enforcement unit", when used  in
12    Sections 7.5 through 7.295, means local governmental units or
13    the  Child  and Spouse Support Unit established under Section
14    7.20 when exercising the powers designated  in  Sections  7.1
15    through  7.295.  The  administrative  enforcement  unit shall
16    apply  the  standard  or  guidelines,  rules  and  procedures
17    provided for by this Section and Sections 7.30  through  7.50
18    in  determining  the  ability  of  responsible  relatives  to
19    provide support for applicants for or recipients of financial
20    aid  under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, except that the
21    administrative enforcement unit may apply  such  standard  or
22    guidelines,  rules  and  procedures  at  its  discretion with
23    respect to those applicants for or  recipients  of  financial
24    aid  under  Article IV of that Code and other persons who are
25    given access to the child  and  spouse  support  services  of
26    Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of this Act as provided by Section
27    7.5.
28        (15 ILCS 205/7.20 new)
29        Sec.  7.20.  Child and Spouse Support Unit.  The Attorney
30    General shall establish  within  his  or  her  administrative
31    staff  a  Child  and  Spouse  Support  Unit to search for and
32    locate absent parents and spouses liable for the  support  of
33    persons  resident  in  this State and to exercise the support
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 1    enforcement powers and responsibilities assigned the Attorney
 2    General by  Sections  7.1  through  7.295.   The  Unit  shall
 3    cooperate  with  all  law enforcement officials in this State
 4    and with the authorities of other states in locating  persons
 5    responsible  for  the  support  of  persons resident in other
 6    states and shall invite the cooperation of these  authorities
 7    in the performance of its duties.
 8        In addition to other duties assigned the Child and Spouse
 9    Support  Unit  by  Sections  7.1  through 7.295, the Unit may
10    refer to units of local government any actions under Sections
11    7.60 and  7.155  for  judicial  enforcement  of  the  support
12    liability.
13        The Attorney General may enter into agreements with local
14    governmental  units  or  individuals  for  the  collection of
15    moneys owing because of the failure of a parent to make child
16    support payments  for  any  child  receiving  services  under
17    Sections  7.1  through  7.295.   Such  agreements may be on a
18    contingent fee basis,  but  such  contingent  fee  shall  not
19    exceed 25% of the total amount collected.
20        An  attorney who provides representation pursuant to this
21    Section shall represent  the  Attorney  General  exclusively.
22    Regardless  of  the designation of the plaintiff in an action
23    brought  pursuant  to  this   Section,   an   attorney-client
24    relationship  does  not  exist  for  purposes  of that action
25    between that attorney and (i) an applicant for  or  recipient
26    of  child and spouse support services or (ii) any other party
27    to the action other than the Attorney  General.   Nothing  in
28    this  Section  shall be construed to modify any power or duty
29    (including a duty to maintain confidentiality) of  the  Child
30    and  Spouse  Support  Unit  or the Attorney General otherwise
31    provided by law.
32        The Attorney General may enter into agreements with local
33    governmental units for the Child and Spouse Support  Unit  to
34    exercise  the investigative and enforcement powers designated
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 1    in Sections 7.1 through  7.295,  including  the  issuance  of
 2    administrative   orders   under  Section  7.80,  in  locating
 3    responsible  relatives  and  obtaining  support  for  persons
 4    applying for  or  receiving  aid  under  Article  VI  of  the
 5    Illinois   Public   Aid  Code.  Payments  for  defrayment  of
 6    administrative costs and support payments obtained  shall  be
 7    deposited  into  the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.
 8    Support payments shall be paid over to the General Assistance
 9    Fund of the local governmental unit at such time or times  as
10    the agreement may specify.
11        With  respect  to  those  cases  in  which it has support
12    enforcement powers and responsibilities  under  Sections  7.1
13    through  7.295,  the Attorney General may provide by rule for
14    periodic or other review of  each  administrative  and  court
15    order  for support to determine whether a modification of the
16    order should be sought. The Attorney  General  shall  provide
17    for and conduct such review in accordance with any applicable
18    federal law and regulation.
19        As  part of its process for review of orders for support,
20    the Attorney General, through written notice, may require the
21    responsible relative to disclose his or her  Social  Security
22    Number  and  past  and  present  information  concerning  the
23    relative's  address, employment, gross wages, deductions from
24    gross wages,  net  wages,  bonuses,  commissions,  number  of
25    dependent exemptions claimed, individual and dependent health
26    insurance  coverage,  and  any other information necessary to
27    determine the relative's ability to provide support in a case
28    receiving child and spouse support  services  under  Sections
29    7.1 through 7.295.
30        The  Attorney  General may send a written request for the
31    same information to the relative's  employer.   The  employer
32    shall  respond  to the request for information within 15 days
33    after the date the employer receives  the  request.   If  the
34    employer  willfully  fails to fully respond within the 15-day
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 1    period, the employer shall pay a penalty of $100 for each day
 2    that the response is not provided  to  the  Attorney  General
 3    after  the  15-day  period  has  expired.  The penalty may be
 4    collected in a civil action which may be brought against  the
 5    employer in favor of the Attorney General.
 6        A  written  request  for  information sent to an employer
 7    pursuant to this Section shall consist of (i) a  citation  of
 8    this  Section  as the statutory authority for the request and
 9    for  the  employer's  obligation  to  provide  the  requested
10    information,  (ii)  a  returnable  form  setting  forth   the
11    employer's  name  and  address  and  listing  the name of the
12    employee with respect to whom information is  requested,  and
13    (iii)  a  citation of this Section as the statutory authority
14    authorizing the employer to withhold a fee of up to $20  from
15    the  wages  or income to be paid to each responsible relative
16    for providing the information to the Attorney General  within
17    the  15-day  period.   If the employer is withholding support
18    payments from the responsible relative's income  pursuant  to
19    an  order  for withholding, the employer may withhold the fee
20    provided for in this Section only after  withholding  support
21    as  required  under the order.  Any amounts withheld from the
22    responsible relative's income for payment of support and  the
23    fee  provided  for  in this Section shall not be in excess of
24    the amounts  permitted  under  the  federal  Consumer  Credit
25    Protection Act.
26        In  a  case  receiving child and spouse support services,
27    the Attorney General may request and obtain information  from
28    a particular employer under this Section no more than once in
29    any  12-month  period, unless the information is necessary to
30    conduct a review of  a  court  or  administrative  order  for
31    support  at  the  request  of  the person receiving child and
32    spouse support services.
33        The Attorney General  shall  establish  and  maintain  an
34    administrative  unit to receive and transmit to the Child and
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 1    Spouse Support Unit information supplied by persons  applying
 2    for  or  receiving  child  and  spouse support services under
 3    Section 7.5.
 4        In addition to  its  other  powers  and  responsibilities
 5    established  by  Sections  7.1  through  7.295, the Child and
 6    Spouse Support Unit shall conduct  an  annual  assessment  of
 7    each  institution's  program  for institution based paternity
 8    establishment under Section 12 of the Vital Records Act.
 9        (15 ILCS 205/7.25 new)
10        Sec. 7.25.  Parent locator service.  The Attorney General
11    through the Child and Spouse Support Unit  shall  enter  into
12    agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services or
13    his  designee  under which the services of the federal Parent
14    Locator Service established by the Social  Security  Act  are
15    made available to this State and the Attorney General for the
16    purpose  of locating an absent parent or child when the child
17    has been abducted or otherwise improperly removed or retained
18    from the  physical  custody  of  a  parent  or  other  person
19    entitled  to  custody of the child, or in connection with the
20    making or enforcing  of  a  child  custody  determination  in
21    custody   proceedings  instituted  under  the  Uniform  Child
22    Custody Jurisdiction Act, or  otherwise  in  accordance  with
23    law.  The  Attorney General shall provide general information
24    to the public about the availability and use  of  the  Parent
25    Locator  Service  in  relation to child abduction and custody
26    determination  proceedings,   shall   promptly   respond   to
27    inquiries   made   by  those  parties  specified  by  federal
28    regulations upon receipt of information as to the location of
29    an absent parent or child from  the  federal  Parent  Locator
30    Service, and shall maintain accurate records as to the number
31    of  such  inquiries  received  and  processed by the Attorney
32    General.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.27 new)
 2        Sec.  7.27.  Locating   support   obligor   and   others;
 3    penalties.
 4        (a)  The  Child  and  Spouse Support Unit may request and
 5    receive from employers, labor  unions,  telephone  companies,
 6    and   utility   companies   location  information  concerning
 7    putative fathers and noncustodial parents for the purpose  of
 8    establishing  a child's paternity or establishing, enforcing,
 9    or modifying a child support obligation.   In  this  Section,
10    "location   information"  means  information  about  (i)  the
11    physical whereabouts of a  putative  father  or  noncustodial
12    parent,  (ii)  the  putative  father or noncustodial parent's
13    employer, or (iii) the salary, wages, and other  compensation
14    paid  and  the  health  insurance  coverage  provided  to the
15    putative father or noncustodial parent by the employer of the
16    putative father or noncustodial parent or by a labor union of
17    which the putative father or noncustodial parent is a member.
18        The employer of a putative father or noncustodial  parent
19    or   the   labor  union  of  which  the  putative  father  or
20    noncustodial parent is a member shall respond to the  request
21    of the Child and Spouse Support Unit within 15 days after the
22    employer  or  labor union receives the request.  Any employer
23    or labor union that willfully fails to fully  respond  within
24    the  15-day  period shall be subject to a penalty of $100 for
25    each day that the response is not provided  to  the  Attorney
26    General after the 15-day period has expired.  The penalty may
27    be  collected in a civil action, which may be brought against
28    the employer or labor union in favor of the Attorney General.
29        (b)  Pursuant to an administrative subpoena as authorized
30    under Sections  7.1  through  7.295,  the  Child  and  Spouse
31    Support  Unit  may request and receive from utility companies
32    and   cable   television   companies   location   information
33    concerning individuals who owe or are owed support or against
34    whom or with respect to whom a support obligation is sought.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.28 new)
 2        Sec. 7.28.  Obtaining location information.
 3        (a)  The Attorney General  shall  enter  into  agreements
 4    with  the  Department  of  State  Police and the Secretary of
 5    State to obtain  location  information  on  persons  for  the
 6    purpose   of   establishing   paternity   and   establishing,
 7    modifying, and enforcing child support obligations.
 8        (b)  Upon  request,  the  Attorney  General shall provide
 9    information obtained pursuant  to  this  Section  to  federal
10    agencies  and other states' agencies conducting child support
11    enforcement activities under Title IV, Part D of  the  Social
12    Security Act.
13        (15 ILCS 205/7.30 new)
14        Sec.   7.30.  Notification  of  support  obligation.  The
15    administrative enforcement unit within the authorized area of
16    its operation shall notify each responsible  relative  of  an
17    applicant  or  recipient,  or  responsible relatives of other
18    persons given access to the support services of Sections  7.1
19    through  7.295,  of his legal obligation to support and shall
20    request such information concerning his financial  status  as
21    may  be necessary to determine whether he is financially able
22    to provide such support,  in  whole  or  in  part.  In  cases
23    involving a child born out of wedlock, the notification shall
24    include  a  statement  that the responsible relative has been
25    named as the biological father of the child identified in the
26    notification.
27        In the case of applicants, the notification shall be sent
28    as soon as practical after the filing of the application.  In
29    the case of recipients, the notice shall be sent at such time
30    as may be established by rule of the Attorney General.
31        The  notice  shall  be  accompanied  by  the   forms   or
32    questionnaires provided in Section 7.35.  It shall inform the
33    relative  that  he  may  be  liable  for reimbursement of any
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 1    support  furnished   from   public   aid   funds   prior   to
 2    determination  of  the relative's financial circumstances, as
 3    well as for future support.  In the alternative, when support
 4    is sought on  behalf  of  applicants  for  or  recipients  of
 5    financial  aid  under  Article  IV of the Illinois Public Aid
 6    Code and other persons who are given access to the child  and
 7    spouse  support  services  of  Section  7.1  through 7.295 as
 8    provided in Section 7.5, the notice shall inform the relative
 9    that the relative may be required to pay support for a period
10    before the date an administrative support order  is  entered,
11    as well as future support.
12        Neither  the  mailing nor receipt of such notice shall be
13    deemed  a  jurisdictional  requirement  for  the   subsequent
14    exercise  of  the  investigative  procedures undertaken by an
15    administrative enforcement unit or the entry of any order  or
16    determination of paternity or support or reimbursement by the
17    administrative  enforcement unit; except that notice shall be
18    served  by  certified  mail  addressed  to  the   responsible
19    relative  at  his  or  her last known address, return receipt
20    requested, or by any method provided by law  for  service  of
21    summons,  in  cases  where  a  determination  of paternity or
22    support by default is sought on behalf of applicants  for  or
23    recipients  of financial aid under Article IV of the Illinois
24    Public Aid Code and other persons who are given access to the
25    child and spouse support services  of  Sections  7.1  through
26    7.295 as provided in Section 7.5.
27        (15 ILCS 205/7.35 new)
28        Sec.   7.35.  Declarations   by   responsible  relatives;
29    penalty.
30        Information requested of responsible relatives  shall  be
31    submitted  on  forms  or  questionnaires  prescribed  by  the
32    Attorney General or local governmental units, as the case may
33    be,  and  shall contain a written declaration to be signed by
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 1    the relative in substantially the following form:
 2             "I declare under penalties of perjury  that  I  have
 3    examined  this  form  (or questionnaire) and all accompanying
 4    statements or documents pertaining to my  income,  resources,
 5    or any other matter having bearing upon my status and ability
 6    to  provide  support,  and  to  the  best of my knowledge and
 7    belief  the  information  supplied  is  true,  correct,   and
 8    complete."
 9        A person who makes and subscribes a form or questionnaire
10    which   contains,   as   hereinabove   provided,   a  written
11    declaration that it is made under the penalties  of  perjury,
12    knowing  it  to be false, incorrect or incomplete, in respect
13    to any material statement or representation bearing upon  his
14    status  as  a  responsible  relative,  or  upon  his  income,
15    resources,  or other matter concerning his ability to provide
16    support, shall  be  subject  to  the  penalties  for  perjury
17    provided for in Section 32-2 of the Criminal Code of 1961.
18        (15 ILCS 205/7.40 new)
19        Sec.    7.40.  Investigation   and   determination.   The
20    administrative enforcement unit shall  review  the  forms  or
21    questionnaires  returned  by  each  responsible  relative and
22    supplement the information provided therein, where  required,
23    by   such   additional  consultations  with  the  responsible
24    relative and such other investigations as may  be  necessary,
25    including  genetic  testing  if  paternity  is an issue, and,
26    applying  the  standard   or   guidelines   and   regulations
27    established  by the Attorney General, shall determine whether
28    and  the  extent   to   which,   the   responsible   relative
29    individually  or  together in any combination, are reasonably
30    able to provide support.   If  the  child  was  born  out  of
31    wedlock   and   the   case   is   subject  to  the  voluntary
32    acknowledgment   of   paternity   or    the    administrative
33    determination  of  paternity  under  rules  established under
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 1    Section 7.210, the Child  and  Spouse  Support  Unit  of  the
 2    Attorney General shall determine the child support obligation
 3    under  subsection  (b)  of Section 7.45 upon establishing the
 4    child's paternity. If the child's paternity  was  established
 5    by judicial or administrative process in any other state, the
 6    Attorney  General  may use administrative processes contained
 7    in Sections 7.1 through 7.295 to establish  a  child  support
 8    order.
 9        In  aid  of  its  investigative  authority, the Child and
10    Spouse Support Unit may use the subpoena power as  set  forth
11    in Sections 7.1 through 7.295.
12        The   Attorney   General,  by  rule,  may  authorize  the
13    administrative enforcement units to conduct periodic or other
14    reinvestigations  and  redeterminations  of   the   financial
15    ability of responsible relatives.  Any redeterminations shall
16    have  the effect of altering, amending, or modifying previous
17    determinations and administrative orders entered pursuant  to
18    Sections  7.45  and 7.80.  However, any redetermination which
19    establishes liability for support or reimbursement, or  which
20    modifies  the support or reimbursement liability specified in
21    a prior order, shall be subject to the provisions of  Section
22    7.90  and  the  administrative and judicial review procedures
23    herein provided for original orders.
24        (15 ILCS 205/7.45 new)
25        Sec. 7.45.  Notice of support due.
26        (a)  When  an   administrative   enforcement   unit   has
27    determined that a responsible relative is financially able to
28    contribute  to  the support of an applicant or recipient, the
29    responsible relative shall be notified by mailing him a  copy
30    of the determination by United States registered or certified
31    mail,  advising  him  of his legal obligation to make support
32    payments for such period or  periods  of  time,  definite  in
33    duration  or  indefinite,  as  the circumstances require. The
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 1    notice shall direct payment  as  provided  in  Section  7.50.
 2    Where  applicable, the determination and notice may include a
 3    demand  for  reimbursement  for  emergency  aid  granted   an
 4    applicant   or   recipient  during  the  period  between  the
 5    application and determination of  the  relative's  obligation
 6    for  support and for aid granted during any subsequent period
 7    the responsible relative  was  financially  able  to  provide
 8    support but failed or refused to do so.
 9        (b)  In the alternative, when support is sought on behalf
10    of  applicants  for  or  recipients  of  financial  aid under
11    Article IV of the Illinois Public Aid Code and other  persons
12    who are given access to the child and spouse support services
13    of Sections 7.1 through 7.295 as provided in Section 7.5, the
14    administrative enforcement unit shall not be required to send
15    the  notice and may enter an administrative order immediately
16    under the provisions of Section 7.80.   The  order  shall  be
17    based  upon  the  determination  made under the provisions of
18    Section 7.40 or, in instances of default, upon the  needs  of
19    the  persons  for  whom  support  is  sought.  In addition to
20    requiring payment of future support, the administrative order
21    may require payment of support for a period before  the  date
22    the  order  is entered.  The amount of support to be paid for
23    the prior period shall be  determined  under  the  guidelines
24    established by the Attorney General pursuant to Section 7.15.
25    The order shall direct payment as provided in Section 7.60.
26        (15 ILCS 205/7.50 new)
27        Sec.  7.50.  Support payments.  The notice to responsible
28    relatives  issued  pursuant  to  Section  7.45  shall  direct
29    payment (i) to the Attorney General in  cases  of  applicants
30    and  recipients  under  Articles  III,  IV,  V and VII of the
31    Illinois Public Aid Code, (ii) except as provided in  Section
32    7.20,   to  the  local  governmental  unit  in  the  case  of
33    applicants and recipients under Article VI  of  the  Illinois
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 1    Public  Aid  Code, and (iii) to the Attorney General in cases
 2    of non-applicants and  non-recipients  given  access  to  the
 3    child  and  spouse  support  services of Sections 7.1 through
 4    7.295, as provided by Section 7.5.  However, if  the  support
 5    payments  by  responsible  relatives  are  sufficient to meet
 6    needs  of  a  recipient  in  full,  including   current   and
 7    anticipated  medical  needs,  and the Attorney General or the
 8    local governmental unit, as the case may be,  has  reasonable
 9    grounds  to  believe  that  such  needs  will  continue to be
10    provided in full by the responsible relatives, the  relatives
11    may  be  directed  to make subsequent support payments to the
12    needy person or to some person or agency in  his  behalf  and
13    the recipient shall be removed from the public aid rolls.  In
14    such  instance  the  recipient  also  shall  be  notified  by
15    registered  or  certified  mail  of  the  action taken.  If a
16    recipient removed from the  public  aid  rolls  requests  the
17    Attorney  General to continue to collect the support payments
18    in his behalf, the Attorney General, at his option, may do so
19    and pay amounts so collected to  the  person.   The  Attorney
20    General  may  provide for deducting any costs incurred by him
21    in making the collection from the amount of any recovery made
22    and pay only the net amount to the person.
23        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
24    Public Aid or the Attorney  General  pursuant  to  the  Child
25    Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of the
26    Social Security Act shall be  paid  into  the  Child  Support
27    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
28    to  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid shall be deposited
29    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
30    from these funds shall be as provided in  Sections  12-9  and
31    12-10.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Payments received by
32    a  local  governmental unit shall be deposited in that unit's
33    General Assistance Fund.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.52 new)
 2        Sec.  7.52.    Temporary   order   for   child   support.
 3    Notwithstanding  any  other  law to the contrary, pending the
 4    outcome of an administrative determination of parentage,  the
 5    Attorney  General  shall  issue  a  temporary order for child
 6    support, upon motion by a party and a showing  of  clear  and
 7    convincing  evidence  of  paternity  based  on  genetic  test
 8    results  or other evidence.  In determining the amount of the
 9    temporary child support award, the Attorney General shall use
10    the guidelines and standards set forth in subsection  (a)  of
11    Section 505 and in Section 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and
12    Dissolution of Marriage Act.
13        Any new or existing support order entered by the Attorney
14    General  under this Section shall be deemed to be a series of
15    judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay   support
16    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
17    payment or installment of support and  each  judgment  to  be
18    deemed  entered  as  of the date the corresponding payment or
19    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
20    Each such judgment shall have the  full  force,  effect,  and
21    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
22    ability  to  be  enforced.   Any  such judgment is subject to
23    modification or termination only in accordance  with  Section
24    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
25    A  lien  arises  by  operation  of  law  against the real and
26    personal  property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for   each
27    installment  of  overdue  support  owed  by  the noncustodial
28    parent.
29        All orders for support entered or modified in a  case  in
30    which  a party is receiving child and spouse support services
31    under Sections 7.1 through 7.295 shall  include  a  provision
32    requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to notify the Attorney
33    General, within  7  days,  (i)  of  the  name,  address,  and
34    telephone  number  of  any  new employer of the non-custodial
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 1    parent, (ii) whether the non-custodial parent has  access  to
 2    health insurance coverage through the employer or other group
 3    coverage,  and,  if  so,  the  policy name and number and the
 4    names of persons covered under the policy, and (iii)  of  any
 5    new residential or mailing address or telephone number of the
 6    non-custodial parent.
 7        In any subsequent action to enforce a support order, upon
 8    sufficient  showing  that  diligent  effort  has been made to
 9    ascertain the location of the non-custodial  parent,  service
10    of  process  or  provision of notice necessary in that action
11    may be made at the last known address  of  the  non-custodial
12    parent, in any manner expressly provided by the Code of Civil
13    Procedure  or this Act, which service shall be sufficient for
14    purposes of due process.
15        An order for support shall include a date  on  which  the
16    current  support obligation terminates.  The termination date
17    shall be no earlier than the date on which the child  covered
18    by  the order will attain the age of majority or is otherwise
19    emancipated.  The order for  support  shall  state  that  the
20    termination  date  does  not  apply to any arrearage that may
21    remain unpaid on that date. Nothing in this  paragraph  shall
22    be  construed  to prevent the Attorney General from modifying
23    the order.
24        (15 ILCS 205/7.55 new)
25        Sec. 7.55.  Alternative actions to enforce support. If  a
26    responsible  relative fails or refuses to furnish support, or
27    contributes  less  than   the   amount   indicated   by   the
28    determination, the administrative enforcement unit shall take
29    action  to enforce support in accordance with Section 7.60 or
30    Section 7.80.
31        (15 ILCS 205/7.60 new)
32        Sec. 7.60.  Court enforcement. Except where the  Attorney
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 1    General,  by agreement, acts for the local governmental unit,
 2    as provided in Section 7.20, local governmental  units  shall
 3    refer  to  the  State's  Attorney  or  to  the  proper  legal
 4    representative   of   the  governmental  unit,  for  judicial
 5    enforcement as herein provided, instances of  non-support  or
 6    insufficient  support  when  the dependents are applicants or
 7    recipients under Article VI of the Illinois Public Aid  Code.
 8    The Child and Spouse Support Unit established by Section 7.20
 9    may  institute in behalf of the Illinois Department of Public
10    Aid any actions under this Section for  judicial  enforcement
11    of  the  support liability when the dependents are applicants
12    or recipients under  Articles  III,  IV,  V  or  VII  of  the
13    Illinois Public Aid Code. The Unit may institute in behalf of
14    the  Attorney  General  any  actions  under  this Section for
15    judicial  enforcement  of  the  support  liability  when  the
16    dependents  are  applicants  or   recipients   in   a   local
17    governmental  unit  when  the Attorney General, by agreement,
18    acts for the unit.  The Unit may institute in behalf  of  the
19    dependents  any  actions  under  this  Section  for  judicial
20    enforcement  of the support liability when the dependents are
21    non-applicants or non-recipients who  are  receiving  support
22    enforcement  services  under  Sections  7.1 through 7.295, as
23    provided in Section 7.5. Where the Child and  Spouse  Support
24    Unit has exercised its option and discretion not to apply the
25    provisions  of Sections 7.15 through 7.50, the failure by the
26    Unit to apply such provisions shall not be a bar to  bringing
27    an action under this Section.
28        Action  shall  be  brought in the circuit court to obtain
29    support, or for the recovery of aid granted during the period
30    such support was not provided, or both for the obtainment  of
31    support  and  the  recovery of the aid provided.  Actions for
32    the recovery of aid may be taken separately or  they  may  be
33    consolidated  with  actions  to obtain support.  Such actions
34    may be brought in the name of the person or persons requiring
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 1    support, or may be  brought  in  the  name  of  the  Illinois
 2    Department  of  Public Aid or the local governmental unit, as
 3    the case requires, in behalf of such persons.
 4        The court may enter such orders for the payment of moneys
 5    for the support of the person as may be  just  and  equitable
 6    and  may direct payment thereof for such period or periods of
 7    time as the circumstances require, including  support  for  a
 8    period before the date the order for support is entered.  The
 9    order  may  be  entered  against  any or all of the defendant
10    responsible relatives and may be based upon the proportionate
11    ability of each to contribute to the person's support.
12        The Court shall determine the  amount  of  child  support
13    (including  child  support  for  a period before the date the
14    order for support is entered) by  using  the  guidelines  and
15    standards  set  forth in subsection (a) of Section 505 and in
16    Section 505.2 of the Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
17    Marriage  Act.    For  purposes  of determining the amount of
18    child support to be paid for a period  before  the  date  the
19    order  for  child  support  is entered, there is a rebuttable
20    presumption that the responsible relative's  net  income  for
21    that period was the same as his or her net income at the time
22    the order is entered.
23        The Court shall determine the amount of maintenance using
24    the  standards  set  forth  in  Section  504  of the Illinois
25    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
26        Any new or existing support order entered  by  the  court
27    under  this  Section  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  series of
28    judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay   support
29    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
30    payment or installment of support and each such  judgment  to
31    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
32    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
33    Each  such  judgment  shall  have  the full force, effect and
34    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
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 1    ability to be enforced.  Any  such  judgment  is  subject  to
 2    modification  or  termination only in accordance with Section
 3    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
 4    A lien arises by  operation  of  law  against  the  real  and
 5    personal   property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for  each
 6    installment of  overdue  support  owed  by  the  noncustodial
 7    parent.
 8        When  an order is entered for the support of a minor, the
 9    court may provide therein for reasonable  visitation  of  the
10    minor  by the person or persons who provided support pursuant
11    to the order.  Whoever willfully refuses to comply with  such
12    visitation order or willfully interferes with its enforcement
13    may be declared in contempt of court and punished therefor.
14        Except where the local governmental unit has entered into
15    an  agreement  with  the  Attorney  General for the Child and
16    Spouse Support Unit to act for it,  as  provided  in  Section
17    7.20,  support orders entered by the court in cases involving
18    applicants or recipients under Article  VI  of  the  Illinois
19    Public  Aid  Code  shall  provide that payments thereunder be
20    made directly to the local governmental unit.  Orders for the
21    support of all other applicants or recipients under that Code
22    shall provide that payments thereunder be  made  directly  to
23    the  Attorney  General.    In accordance with federal law and
24    regulations, the Attorney General  may  continue  to  collect
25    current  maintenance  payments  or child support payments, or
26    both, after those persons cease to receive public  assistance
27    and  until termination of services under Sections 7.1 through
28    7.295.   The  Attorney  General  shall  pay  the  net  amount
29    collected to those persons after deducting any costs incurred
30    in making the collection  or  any  collection  fee  from  the
31    amount  of  any recovery made.  In both cases the order shall
32    permit the local governmental unit or the  Attorney  General,
33    as  the  case  may  be, to direct the responsible relative or
34    relatives to make support  payments  directly  to  the  needy
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 1    person,  or  to  some  person  or  agency in his behalf, upon
 2    removal of the person from  the  public  aid  rolls  or  upon
 3    termination of services under Sections 7.1 through 7.295.
 4        If  the  notice of support due issued pursuant to Section
 5    7.45 directs that support payments be made  directly  to  the
 6    needy  person, or to some person or agency in his behalf, and
 7    the recipient is removed from the  public  aid  rolls,  court
 8    action   may   be  taken  against  the  responsible  relative
 9    hereunder if he fails to furnish support in  accordance  with
10    the terms of such notice.
11        Actions  may also be brought under this Section in behalf
12    of any person who is in  need  of  support  from  responsible
13    relatives,  as defined in Section 2-11 of the Illinois Public
14    Aid Code  who  is  not  an  applicant  for  or  recipient  of
15    financial  aid  under  that  Code.   In  such  instances, the
16    State's Attorney of the county in which such  person  resides
17    shall   bring   action   against  the  responsible  relatives
18    hereunder.  If the Attorney General, as authorized by Section
19    7.5, extends the support services provided by this Article to
20    spouses and dependent children  who  are  not  applicants  or
21    recipients  under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Child and
22    Spouse Support Unit established by Section 7.20  shall  bring
23    action  against  the  responsible relatives hereunder and any
24    support orders entered by  the  court  in  such  cases  shall
25    provide  that  payments  thereunder  be  made directly to the
26    Attorney General.
27        Whenever it is determined in a proceeding to establish or
28    enforce a child support or maintenance  obligation  that  the
29    person  owing  a duty of support is unemployed, the court may
30    order the person to seek employment and  report  periodically
31    to the court with a diary, listing or other memorandum of his
32    or  her efforts in accordance with such order.  Additionally,
33    the court may order the unemployed person to  report  to  the
34    Department  of Employment Security for job search services or
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 1    to make application with the local Jobs Training  Partnership
 2    Act  provider  for  participation  in job search, training or
 3    work programs and where the duty of  support  is  owed  to  a
 4    child  receiving  support services under Sections 7.1 through
 5    7.295, the court may order the unemployed person to report to
 6    the Department of Human Services  for  participation  in  job
 7    search,  training  or work programs established under Section
 8    9-6 and Article IXA of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
 9        Whenever it is determined that  a  person  owes  past-due
10    support  for  a child receiving assistance under the Illinois
11    Public Aid Code, the court shall order at the request of  the
12    Attorney General:
13             (1)  that  the  person  pay  the past-due support in
14        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
15             (2)  if  the  person  owing  past-due   support   is
16        unemployed,  is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is not
17        incapacitated, that the person participate  in  such  job
18        search,  training,  or  work  programs  established under
19        Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the  Illinois  Public  Aid
20        Code as the court deems appropriate.
21        A   determination   under   this  Section  shall  not  be
22    administratively reviewable by the  procedures  specified  in
23    Sections 7.90 and 7.95 through 7.145. Any determination under
24    those  Sections, if made the basis of court action under this
25    Section, shall not affect the de novo judicial  determination
26    required under this Section.
27        All  orders  for support, when entered or modified, shall
28    include a provision requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to
29    notify  the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
30    child and spouse support services under Sections 7.1  through
31    7.295,  the Attorney General, within 7 days, (i) of the name,
32    address, and telephone number of  any  new  employer  of  the
33    non-custodial  parent,  (ii) whether the non-custodial parent
34    has access to health insurance coverage through the  employer
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 1    or  other  group  coverage  and,  if  so, the policy name and
 2    number and the names of persons covered under the policy, and
 3    (iii) of any new residential or mailing address or  telephone
 4    number of the non-custodial parent.  In any subsequent action
 5    to  enforce a support order, upon a sufficient showing that a
 6    diligent effort has been made to ascertain  the  location  of
 7    the  non-custodial parent, service of process or provision of
 8    notice necessary in the case may be made at  the  last  known
 9    address  of  the non-custodial parent in any manner expressly
10    provided by the Code  of  Civil  Procedure  or  Sections  7.1
11    through 7.295, which service shall be sufficient for purposes
12    of due process.
13        In  cases  in which a party is receiving child and spouse
14    support services under Sections 7.1  through  7.295  and  the
15    order  for  support  provides  that child support payments be
16    made to the obligee, the Attorney General may provide  notice
17    to   the   obligor  and  the  obligor's  payor,  when  income
18    withholding is in effect under Section  7.165,  to  make  all
19    payments  after  receipt  of the Attorney General's notice to
20    the clerk of the court until further notice by  the  Attorney
21    General  or order of the court. Copies of the notice shall be
22    provided to the obligee and  the  clerk.   The  clerk's  copy
23    shall  contain  a  proof  of  service  on the obligor and the
24    obligor's payor, where applicable.  The clerk shall file  the
25    clerk's  copy  of the notice in the court file. The notice to
26    the obligor and the payor, if  applicable,  may  be  sent  by
27    ordinary  mail,  certified  mail,  return  receipt requested,
28    facsimile transmission, or other electronic process,  or  may
29    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
30    by  law  for  service  of a summons.  An obligor who fails to
31    comply with a notice provided under this paragraph is  guilty
32    of a Class B misdemeanor.  A payor who fails to comply with a
33    notice  provided under this paragraph is guilty of a business
34    offense and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
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 1        An order for support shall include a date  on  which  the
 2    current  support obligation terminates.  The termination date
 3    shall be no earlier than the date on which the child  covered
 4    by  the order will attain the age of majority or is otherwise
 5    emancipated.  The order for  support  shall  state  that  the
 6    termination  date  does  not  apply to any arrearage that may
 7    remain unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this paragraph  shall
 8    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
 9        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
10    transmission  from  the  Attorney General to the clerk of the
11    court that a person who is receiving support  payments  under
12    this  Section  is  receiving services under the Child Support
13    Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the  Social
14    Security  Act,  any support payments subsequently received by
15    the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in  accordance
16    with  the  instructions  of  the  Attorney  General until the
17    Attorney General gives notice to the clerk of  the  court  to
18    cease  the  transmittal.    After  providing the notification
19    authorized under this paragraph, the Attorney  General  shall
20    be  entitled  as a party to notice of any further proceedings
21    in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a copy of the
22    Attorney General's notification  in  the  court  file.    The
23    clerk's  failure  to  file  a copy of the notification in the
24    court file shall not, however, affect the Attorney  General's
25    right to receive notice of further proceedings.
26        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
27    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
28    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
29    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
30    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
31    to the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  be  deposited
32    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
33    from  these  funds  shall be as provided in Sections 12-9 and
34    12-10.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.   Payments  received
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 1    by  a  local  governmental  unit  shall  be deposited in that
 2    unit's General Assistance Fund.
 3        (15 ILCS 205/7.65 new)
 4        Sec. 7.65.  Collection fee.  In all cases  instituted  by
 5    the  Attorney  General  on behalf of a child or spouse, other
 6    than one receiving a grant of financial aid under Article  IV
 7    of   the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  on  whose  behalf  an
 8    application has been made and approved for  support  services
 9    as  provided  by  Section  7.5,  the  court  shall  impose  a
10    collection  fee  on the individual who owes a child or spouse
11    support obligation in an amount equal to 10% of the amount so
12    owed as long as such collection is required by  federal  law,
13    which  fee  shall  be  in addition to the support obligation.
14    The imposition of  such  fee  shall  be  in  accordance  with
15    provisions  of  Title  IV, Part D, of the Social Security Act
16    and regulations duly promulgated thereunder.  The  fee  shall
17    be  payable to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal
18    to the Attorney General  and  shall  continue  until  support
19    services are terminated by the Attorney General.
20        (15 ILCS 205/7.70 new)
21        Sec.  7.70.  Notice to circuit clerk of payment received.
22    For those cases in which support is payable to the  clerk  of
23    the  circuit court for transmittal to the Attorney General or
24    the Illinois Department of Public Aid by order of court,  and
25    the  Attorney General collects support by assignment, offset,
26    withholding, deduction or other process permitted by law, the
27    Attorney General shall notify  the  clerk  of  the  date  and
28    amount of such collection. Upon notification, the clerk shall
29    record the collection on the payment record for the case.
30        (15 ILCS 205/7.75 new)
31        Sec.  7.75.  Transmittal  of  payments  by circuit clerk.
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 1    For those cases in which child  support  is  payable  to  the
 2    clerk  of  the  circuit court for transmittal to the Attorney
 3    General or the Illinois Department of Public Aid by order  of
 4    court,  the  clerk shall transmit all such payments, within 4
 5    working days of receipt, to ensure that funds  are  available
 6    for  immediate  distribution  by  the Attorney General or the
 7    Department to  the  person  or  entity  entitled  thereto  in
 8    accordance  with  standards  of the Child Support Enforcement
 9    Program established under Title IV-D of the  Social  Security
10    Act.   The  clerk  shall  notify  the Attorney General or the
11    Department of the date of receipt and amount thereof  at  the
12    time  of  transmittal.   Where  the clerk has entered into an
13    agreement of cooperation  with  the  Illinois  Department  of
14    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney General to record the terms of
15    child support orders and payments  made  thereunder  directly
16    into  the IV-D Agency's automated data processing system, the
17    clerk shall account for, transmit  and  otherwise  distribute
18    child  support  payments in accordance with such agreement in
19    lieu of the requirements contained herein.
20        (15 ILCS 205/7.80 new)
21        Sec. 7.80.  Administrative orders. In lieu of actions for
22    court enforcement of support under Section  7.60,  the  Child
23    and   Spouse   Support  Unit  of  the  Attorney  General,  in
24    accordance with the rules of the Attorney General, may  issue
25    an administrative order requiring the responsible relative to
26    comply  with  the  terms  of  the determination and notice of
27    support due, determined and issued under  Sections  7.40  and
28    7.45.   The Unit may also enter an administrative order under
29    subsection (b) of Section  7.45.   The  administrative  order
30    shall  be  served  upon  the  responsible  relative by United
31    States registered or certified mail.
32        If a responsible relative fails to petition the  Attorney
33    General   for   release   from   or   modification   of   the
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 1    administrative  order, as provided in Section 7.90, the order
 2    shall  become  final  and   there   shall   be   no   further
 3    administrative  or  judicial  remedy.  Likewise a decision by
 4    the  Attorney  General  as  a  result  of  an  administrative
 5    hearing, as provided in Sections 7.95  through  7.145,  shall
 6    become final and enforceable if not judicially reviewed under
 7    the Administrative Review Law, as provided in Section 7.150.
 8        Any new or existing support order entered by the Attorney
 9    General  under this Section shall be deemed to be a series of
10    judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay   support
11    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
12    payment or installment of support and each such  judgment  to
13    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
14    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
15    Each  such   judgment  shall  have the full force, effect and
16    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
17    ability to be enforced.  Any  such  judgment  is  subject  to
18    modification  or  termination only in accordance with Section
19    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
20    A lien arises by  operation  of  law  against  the  real  and
21    personal   property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for  each
22    installment of  overdue  support  owed  by  the  noncustodial
23    parent.
24        (15 ILCS 205/7.85 new)
25        Sec. 7.85.  Unemployed responsible relatives.
26        (a)  Whenever  it  is  determined  in  a proceeding under
27    Section 7.40, 7.45,  7.80,  or  7.180  that  the  responsible
28    relative  is  unemployed,  and support is sought on behalf of
29    applicants for or recipients of financial aid  under  Article
30    IV  of  the Illinois Public Aid Code or other persons who are
31    given access to the child and spouse support services of that
32    Article  as  provided  in  Section  7.5  of  this  Act,   the
33    administrative  enforcement  unit  may  order the responsible
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 1    relative to report to the Department of  Human  Services  for
 2    participation  in  job  search,  training  or  work  programs
 3    established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the Illinois
 4    Public  Aid  Code or to the Illinois Department of Employment
 5    Security for job search services or to make application  with
 6    the   local   Jobs  Training  Partnership  Act  provider  for
 7    participation in job search, training or work programs.
 8        (b)  Whenever  it  is  determined  that   a   responsible
 9    relative   owes   past-due  support  for  a  child  under  an
10    administrative support order entered under subsection (b)  of
11    Section  7.45 or under Section 7.80 or 7.180 and the child is
12    receiving assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code,  the
13    administrative enforcement unit shall order the following:
14             (1)  that  the responsible relative pay the past-due
15        support  in  accordance  with  a  plan  approved  by  the
16        administrative enforcement unit; or
17             (2)  if  the  responsible  relative  owing  past-due
18        support is unemployed, is subject to such a plan, and  is
19        not   incapacitated,   that   the   responsible  relative
20        participate in job search,  training,  or  work  programs
21        established  under  Section  9-6  and  Article IXA of the
22        Illinois Public Aid Code.
23        (15 ILCS 205/7.90 new)
24        Sec. 7.90.  Petition for release from or modification  of
25    administrative   support   order.  Any  responsible  relative
26    aggrieved by an administrative order  entered  under  Section
27    7.80  or  7.85  who has been duly notified of such order, may
28    within 30 days from  the  date  of  mailing  of  such  order,
29    petition   the   Attorney  General  for  a  release  from  or
30    modification of the order. The day immediately subsequent  to
31    the  mailing  of  the  order shall be considered as the first
32    day, and the day such petition is received  by  the  Attorney
33    General  shall be considered as the last day in computing the
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 1    30 day appeal period.
 2        The Attorney General shall, upon receipt  of  a  petition
 3    within  the 30 day appeal period, provide for a hearing to be
 4    held thereon.
 5        (15 ILCS 205/7.95 new)
 6        Sec. 7.95.  Hearing on petition. The Attorney General, or
 7    any officer or employee thereof designated in writing by  the
 8    Attorney  General,  shall conduct hearings and investigations
 9    in connection with petitions filed pursuant to Section  7.90.
10    Responsible  relatives shall be entitled to appear in person,
11    to be represented by counsel at the hearing  and  to  present
12    all  relevant  matter  in  support  of  their  petitions. The
13    provisions of Sections 7.100 through 7.145 shall  govern  the
14    hearing.
15        The  hearing  shall be de novo and the Attorney General's
16    determination  of  liability  or   non-liability   shall   be
17    independent   of  the  determination  of  the  administrative
18    enforcement unit.
19        (15 ILCS 205/7.100 new)
20        Sec.  7.100.  Examination  of   records.   The   Attorney
21    General,  or  any  properly  designated  officer  or employee
22    thereof, may examine any books, papers, records or  memoranda
23    bearing  upon the determination of ability to support and the
24    order for support  and  upon  any  matter  pertinent  to  the
25    relative's   petition  and  may  compel  the  attendance  and
26    testimony of any person or persons, including the petitioning
27    responsible relative, having knowledge of matters germane  to
28    the determination order, or the petition.
29        (15 ILCS 205/7.105 new)
30        Sec.  7.105.  Hearings  not subject to technical rules of
31    evidence or procedure. In  the  conduct  of  any  hearing  or
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 1    investigation, neither the Attorney General nor a person duly
 2    authorized to conduct such hearing or investigation, shall be
 3    bound  by  the  technical  rules  of  evidence, common law or
 4    statutory, or by technical or formal rules of procedure,  but
 5    shall  conduct  the hearing or make the investigation in such
 6    manner as seems best calculated  to  conform  to  substantial
 7    justice  and  the  spirit of the Illinois Public Aid Code and
 8    Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of this Act. No informality in any
 9    proceedings, or in the  manner  of  taking  testimony,  shall
10    invalidate any order or decision made by the Attorney General
11    pursuant to such hearing or investigation.
12        (15 ILCS 205/7.110 new)
13        Sec.  7.110.  Authority to administer oaths. The Attorney
14    General, or  any  person  duly  authorized  to  conduct  such
15    hearing  or  investigation,  shall  have  power to administer
16    oaths. Every  person  who,  having  taken  an  oath  or  made
17    affirmation   before   the  Attorney  General,  or  any  duly
18    authorized officer or employee thereof, shall wilfully  swear
19    or  affirm  falsely,  shall  be  guilty  of perjury, and upon
20    conviction shall be punished accordingly.
21        (15 ILCS 205/7.115 new)
22        Sec. 7.115.  Proof of records. The books, papers, records
23    and memoranda of the Illinois Department of Public  Aid,  the
24    Illinois  Department  of  Human  Services,  and  the Attorney
25    General or of the administrative enforcement unit,  or  parts
26    thereof,  may  be  proved  in  any hearing, investigation, or
27    legal proceeding by a photostatic or other copy thereof under
28    the  certificate  of  their  respective  Directors,  and  the
29    Attorney General or their designees.    Such  certified  copy
30    shall,  without  further  proof, be admitted into evidence in
31    the hearing before the Attorney General or in any other legal
32    proceeding.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.120 new)
 2        Sec. 7.120.  Proof of necessitous circumstances. Proof in
 3    any hearing before the Attorney General that a person  is  an
 4    applicant  for  or recipient of assistance under the Illinois
 5    Public Aid Code shall be prima  facie  proof  that  he  is  a
 6    "person  who  is  in  necessitous  circumstances by reason of
 7    infirmity, unemployment, or other cause depriving him of  the
 8    means of a livelihood compatible with health and well-being",
 9    within the meaning of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
10        (15 ILCS 205/7.125 new)
11        Sec.  7.125.  Subpoenas.  The  Attorney  General,  or any
12    officer or employee thereof  designated  in  writing  by  the
13    Attorney  General,  shall  at  his  own  instance,  or on the
14    written request of any other party to the  proceeding,  issue
15    subpoenas  requiring  the  attendance  of  and  the giving of
16    testimony by witnesses, and subpoenas duces  tecum  requiring
17    the  production  of  books, papers, records or memoranda. The
18    subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum  may  be  served  by  any
19    person  of  full  age. Any subpoena may be served in the same
20    manner as a subpoena issued out of a circuit court,  and  may
21    also be served by United States registered or certified mail,
22    addressed  to the person concerned at his last known address,
23    and proof  of  such  mailing  shall  be  sufficient  for  the
24    purposes of Sections 7.1 through 7.295.
25        (15 ILCS 205/7.130 new)
26        Sec.  7.130.  Witness  fees.  The  fees  of witnesses for
27    attendance and travel shall  be  the  same  as  the  fees  of
28    witnesses  before  the circuit court of this State; such fees
29    to  be  paid  when  the  witness  is  excused  from   further
30    attendance. When the witness is subpoenaed at the instance of
31    the  Attorney General or any employee thereof, the fees shall
32    be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the  Attorney
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 1    General.  If the witness is subpoenaed at the instance of any
 2    other party to  the  proceeding,  the  Attorney  General  may
 3    require  that the cost of service of the subpoena or subpoena
 4    duces tecum and the fee of the witness be borne by the  party
 5    at  whose instance the witness is summoned. In such case, the
 6    Attorney General may require a deposit to cover the  cost  of
 7    such service and witness fees.
 8        (15 ILCS 205/7.135 new)
 9        Sec.   7.135.  Compelling   attendance   of  witness  and
10    production of records.  The  circuit  court,  of  the  county
11    wherein  the investigation or administrative hearing is held,
12    upon the application of the  Attorney  General  or  any  duly
13    authorized   officer   or   employee  thereof,  or  upon  the
14    application of any other party to the proceeding, may, in its
15    discretion,  compel  the   attendance   of   witnesses,   the
16    production  of  books,  papers, records or memorandum and the
17    giving of testimony before the Attorney General or  any  duly
18    authorized   officer   or   employee  thereof  conducting  an
19    investigation or holding a hearing authorized by Sections 7.1
20    through 7.295, by an attachment for contempt,  or  otherwise,
21    in the same manner as production of evidence may be compelled
22    before the court.
23        (15 ILCS 205/7.140 new)
24        Sec.  7.140.  Penalty  for  non-compliance with subpoena.
25    Any person who is served with a subpoena  or  subpoena  duces
26    tecum,  issued by the Attorney General or any duly authorized
27    officer or employee thereof, to  appear  and  testify  or  to
28    produce  books  and papers, in the course of an investigation
29    or hearing authorized by law, and who refuses or neglects  to
30    appear,  or  to  testify,  or  to  produce  books  and papers
31    relevant to such investigation or hearing,  as  commanded  in
32    such subpoena, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.145 new)
 2        Sec.  7.145.  Depositions.  The  Attorney  General or any
 3    duly authorized officer or employee  thereof,  or  any  other
 4    party  in  an  investigation  or  hearing before the Attorney
 5    General, may cause the depositions  of  witnesses  within  or
 6    without the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law
 7    for  like  depositions  in  civil  actions  in courts of this
 8    State, and to that end compel the attendance of witnesses and
 9    the production of books, papers, records or memoranda.
10        (15 ILCS 205/7.150 new)
11        Sec.  7.150.  Review  of  Attorney  General  decision  on
12    petition for hearing. Any responsible relative affected by  a
13    final  administrative  decision  of the Attorney General in a
14    hearing, conducted pursuant to Sections 7.95 through 7.145 in
15    which such relative  was  a  party,  may  have  the  decision
16    reviewed only under and in accordance with the Administrative
17    Review  Law. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law,
18    and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall  apply  to  and
19    govern  all proceedings for the judicial review of such final
20    administrative decisions of the Attorney  General.  The  term
21    "administrative  decision"  is defined as in Section 3-101 of
22    the Code of Civil Procedure.
23        Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by  a
24    court upon review of the Attorney General's order in any case
25    may  be  taken by either party to the proceeding and shall be
26    governed by the rules applicable to appeals in civil cases.
27        The remedy herein provided for appeal shall be exclusive,
28    and no court shall have jurisdiction to  review  the  subject
29    matter  of  any  order made by the Attorney General except as
30    herein provided.
31        (15 ILCS 205/7.155 new)
32        Sec. 7.155.  Enforcement of administrative  order.  If  a
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 1    responsible  relative  refuses,  neglects, or fails to comply
 2    with a final administrative support or reimbursement order of
 3    the Attorney General entered by the Child and Spouse  Support
 4    Unit  pursuant to Section 7.80 or 7.85 or registered pursuant
 5    to Section 7.180, the Child and Spouse Support Unit may  file
 6    suit  against the responsible relative or relatives to secure
 7    compliance with the administrative order.
 8        Suits shall be instituted in the name of  the  People  of
 9    the State of Illinois on the relation of the Attorney General
10    of the State of Illinois and the spouse or dependent children
11    for whom the support order has been issued.
12        The   court  shall  order  the  payment  of  the  support
13    obligation, or orders for reimbursement of moneys for support
14    provided, directly to the  Attorney  General  but  the  order
15    shall  permit  the Attorney General to direct the responsible
16    relative or relatives to make payments of support directly to
17    the spouse or dependent children, or to some person or agency
18    in his or their behalf, as provided in Section 7.50 or  7.60,
19    as applicable.
20        Whenever  it  is determined in a proceeding to enforce an
21    administrative  order  that  the  responsible   relative   is
22    unemployed, and support is sought on behalf of applicants for
23    or  recipients  of  financial  aid  under  Article  IV of the
24    Illinois Public Aid Code  or  other  persons  who  are  given
25    access  to  the child and spouse support services of Sections
26    7.1 through 7.295 as provided in Section 7.5, the  court  may
27    order  the responsible relative to seek employment and report
28    periodically to the court with  a  diary,  listing  or  other
29    memorandum  of  his  or  her  efforts in accordance with such
30    order.  In addition,  the  court  may  order  the  unemployed
31    responsible  relative  to  report  to the Department of Human
32    Services for participation in job search,  training  or  work
33    programs established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the
34    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or to the Illinois Department of
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 1    Employment Security  for  job  search  services  or  to  make
 2    application  with  the  local  Jobs  Training Partnership Act
 3    provider for participation in job search,  training  or  work
 4    programs.
 5        (15 ILCS 205/7.160 new)
 6        Sec.    7.160.  Judicial   enforcement   of   court   and
 7    administrative  support  orders.   Court  orders  entered  in
 8    proceedings  under  Section  7.60  and   court   orders   for
 9    enforcement  of  an  administrative order under Section 7.155
10    and for the payment of money may be enforced by attachment as
11    for contempt against the persons of the  defendants,  and  in
12    addition,  as  other  judgments for the payment of money, and
13    costs may be adjudged against the defendants and  apportioned
14    among them; but if the complaint is dismissed, costs shall be
15    borne by the Attorney General or the local governmental unit,
16    as the case may be.  If a responsible relative is directed by
17    the  Attorney  General, or the local governmental unit, under
18    the conditions  stated  in  Section  7.50,  to  make  support
19    payments  directly to the person, or to some person or agency
20    in his behalf, the court order entered against him under this
21    Section or Section 7.60 may be enforced as herein provided if
22    he thereafter fails to furnish support in accordance with its
23    terms.  The State of Illinois shall not be required to make a
24    deposit for or pay any costs or fees of any court or  officer
25    thereof in any proceeding instituted under this Section.
26        The  provisions  of  the  Civil  Practice  Law,  and  all
27    amendments  and  modifications  thereof,  shall  apply to and
28    govern all actions instituted under this Section and  Section
29    7.60. In such actions proof that a person is an applicant for
30    or  recipient of public aid under any Article of the Illinois
31    Public Aid Code shall be prima  facie  proof  that  he  is  a
32    person  in  necessitous circumstances by reason of infirmity,
33    unemployment or other cause depriving him of the means  of  a
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 1    livelihood compatible with health and well-being.
 2        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
 3    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
 4    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
 5    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
 6    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
 7    to the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  be  deposited
 8    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
 9    from  these  funds  shall be as provided in Sections 12-9 and
10    12-10.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Payments received by
11    a local governmental unit shall be deposited in  that  unit's
12    General Assistance Fund.
13        (15 ILCS 205/7.165 new)
14        Sec.  7.165.  Withholding  of income to secure payment of
15    support.
16    (A)  Definitions.
17        (1)  "Order for support" means any  order  of  the  court
18    which  provides for periodic payment of funds for the support
19    of a child or maintenance of a spouse, whether  temporary  or
20    final, and includes any such order which provides for:
21             (a)  Modification  or  resumption  of, or payment of
22        arrearage accrued under, a previously existing order;
23             (b)  Reimbursement of support; or
24             (c)  Enrollment in a health insurance plan  that  is
25        available  to  the  obligor  through an employer or labor
26        union or trade union.
27        (2)  "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
28    obligations as determined by the court and incorporated  into
29    an order for support.
30        (2.5)  "Business  day" means a day on which State offices
31    are open for regular business.
32        (3)  "Delinquency" means any payment under an  order  for
33    support  which  becomes due and remains unpaid after entry of
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 1    the order for support.
 2        (4)  "Income" means any form of periodic  payment  to  an
 3    individual,  regardless of source, including, but not limited
 4    to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
 5    contractor,  workers'  compensation,   disability,   annuity,
 6    pension,  and  retirement  benefits,  lottery  prize  awards,
 7    insurance  proceeds,  vacation  pay,  bonuses, profit-sharing
 8    payments, interest, and  any  other  payments,  made  by  any
 9    person, private entity, federal or state government, any unit
10    of local government, school district or any entity created by
11    Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
12             (a)  Any  amounts  required  by  law to be withheld,
13        other than creditor claims, including,  but  not  limited
14        to,  federal,  State and local taxes, Social Security and
15        other retirement and disability contributions;
16             (b)  Union dues;
17             (c)  Any amounts exempted by  the  federal  Consumer
18        Credit Protection Act;
19             (d)  Public assistance payments; and
20             (e)  Unemployment   insurance   benefits  except  as
21        provided by law.
22        Any other State or  local  laws  which  limit  or  exempt
23    income  or  the  amount  or  percentage of income that can be
24    withheld shall not apply.
25        (5)  "Obligor" means the individual who owes  a  duty  to
26    make payments under an order for support.
27        (6)  "Obligee"  means  the  individual  to whom a duty of
28    support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
29        (7)  "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
30        (8)  "Public office" means any elected  official  or  any
31    State  or  local agency which is or may become responsible by
32    law for enforcement of, or which is or may become  authorized
33    to  enforce, an order for support, including, but not limited
34    to: the Attorney General, the Illinois Department  of  Public
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 1    Aid,  the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Illinois
 2    Department of Children and Family Services, and  the  various
 3    State's   Attorneys,   Clerks   of   the  Circuit  Court  and
 4    supervisors of general assistance.
 5        (9)  "Premium" means the  dollar  amount  for  which  the
 6    obligor  is  liable  to  his employer or labor union or trade
 7    union and which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in
 8    a health insurance plan that  is  available  to  the  obligor
 9    through an employer or labor union or trade union.
10    (B)  Entry of Order for Support Containing Income Withholding
11    Provisions; Income Withholding Notice.
12        (1)  In  addition  to  any  content  required under other
13    laws, every order for support entered on  or  after  July  1,
14    1997, shall:
15             (a)  Require  an  income  withholding  notice  to be
16        prepared and served immediately upon  any  payor  of  the
17        obligor by the obligee or public office, unless a written
18        agreement  is  reached between and signed by both parties
19        providing for an alternative  arrangement,  approved  and
20        entered  into  the  record  by  the  court, which ensures
21        payment of support.  In that case, the order for  support
22        shall  provide that an income withholding notice is to be
23        prepared  and  served  only  if   the   obligor   becomes
24        delinquent in paying the order for support; and
25             (b)  Contain  a  dollar  amount  to  be  paid  until
26        payment  in  full  of  any delinquency that accrues after
27        entry of the order for support.  The amount  for  payment
28        of delinquency shall not be less than 20% of the total of
29        the  current  support  amount  and  the amount to be paid
30        periodically for payment of any arrearage stated  in  the
31        order for support; and
32             (c)  Include  the  obligor's Social Security Number,
33        which the obligor shall disclose to  the  court.  If  the
34        obligor is not a United States citizen, the obligor shall
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 1        disclose to the court, and the court shall include in the
 2        order  for  support,  the  obligor's  alien  registration
 3        number,   passport  number,  and  home  country's  social
 4        security or national health number, if applicable.
 5        (2)  At the time the order for support  is  entered,  the
 6    Clerk  of the Circuit Court shall provide a copy of the order
 7    to the obligor and shall make copies available to the obligee
 8    and public office.
 9        (3)  The income withholding notice shall:
10             (a)  Be in the standard  format  prescribed  by  the
11        federal Department of Health and Human Services; and
12             (b)  Direct  any payor to withhold the dollar amount
13        required for current support under the order for support;
14        and
15             (c)  Direct any payor to withhold the dollar  amount
16        required  to  be  paid  periodically  under the order for
17        support for payment of the amount of any arrearage stated
18        in the order for support; and
19             (d)  Direct any payor or labor union or trade  union
20        to  enroll a child as a beneficiary of a health insurance
21        plan and withhold or cause to be withheld, if applicable,
22        any required premiums; and
23             (e)  State  the   amount   of   the   payor   income
24        withholding fee specified under this Section; and
25             (f)  State  that  the  amount actually withheld from
26        the obligor's income  for  support  and  other  purposes,
27        including  the payor withholding fee specified under this
28        Section, may not be  in  excess  of  the  maximum  amount
29        permitted  under  the  federal Consumer Credit Protection
30        Act; and
31             (g)  State the duties of the payor and the fines and
32        penalties for failure to withhold and pay over income and
33        for  discharging,  disciplining,  refusing  to  hire,  or
34        otherwise penalizing the obligor because of the  duty  to
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 1        withhold and pay over income under this Section; and
 2             (h)  State  the  rights, remedies, and duties of the
 3        obligor under this Section; and
 4             (i)  Include the obligor's Social  Security  Number;
 5        and
 6             (j)  Include  the  date that withholding for current
 7        support  terminates,  which  shall   be   the   date   of
 8        termination  of  the current support obligation set forth
 9        in the order for support.
10        (4)  The accrual of a  delinquency  as  a  condition  for
11    service  of an income withholding notice, under the exception
12    to immediate withholding in paragraph (1) of this subsection,
13    shall  apply  only  to  the  initial  service  of  an  income
14    withholding notice on a payor of the obligor.
15        (5)  Notwithstanding   the   exception    to    immediate
16    withholding contained in paragraph (1) of this subsection, if
17    the  court finds at the time of any hearing that an arrearage
18    has accrued, the court shall order immediate  service  of  an
19    income withholding notice upon the payor.
20        (6)  If  the  order  for  support, under the exception to
21    immediate withholding contained  in  paragraph  (1)  of  this
22    subsection,  provides that an income withholding notice is to
23    be prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent
24    in paying the order for support, the obligor  may  execute  a
25    written  waiver  of  that  condition  and  request  immediate
26    service on the payor.
27        (7)  The  obligee  or  public office may serve the income
28    withholding  notice  on  the  payor  or  its  superintendent,
29    manager, or other agent by ordinary mail  or  certified  mail
30    return  receipt requested, by facsimile transmission or other
31    electronic means, by personal  delivery,  or  by  any  method
32    provided  by  law  for  service of a summons.  At the time of
33    service on the payor  and  as  notice  that  withholding  has
34    commenced, the obligee or public office shall serve a copy of
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 1    the income withholding notice on the obligor by ordinary mail
 2    addressed  to  his  or  her  last  known  address.  Proofs of
 3    service on the payor and the obligor shall be filed with  the
 4    Clerk of the Circuit Court.
 5        (8)  At  any  time after the initial service of an income
 6    withholding notice under this Section, any other payor of the
 7    obligor may be served with the same income withholding notice
 8    without further notice to the obligor.
 9        (9)  New service of an income withholding notice  is  not
10    required in order to resume withholding of income in the case
11    of  an  obligor  with  respect  to whom an income withholding
12    notice was previously served on the payor if  withholding  of
13    income  was  terminated  because  of  an  interruption in the
14    obligor's employment of less than 180 days.
15    (C)  Income Withholding After Accrual of Delinquency.
16        (1)  Whenever  an  obligor  accrues  a  delinquency,  the
17    obligee or public office  may  prepare  and  serve  upon  the
18    obligor's payor an income withholding notice that:
19             (a)  Contains   the   information   required   under
20        paragraph (3) of subsection (B); and
21             (b)  Contains  a computation of the period and total
22        amount of the delinquency as of the date of  the  notice;
23        and
24             (c)  Directs the payor to withhold the dollar amount
25        required  to be withheld periodically under the order for
26        support for payment of the delinquency.
27        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
28    of the income withholding notice shall be served as  provided
29    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
30        (3)  The  obligor may contest withholding commenced under
31    this subsection by filing a petition to  contest  withholding
32    with  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit Court within 20 days after
33    service of a copy of the income  withholding  notice  on  the
34    obligor.  However,  the  grounds  for the petition to contest
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 1    withholding shall be limited to:
 2             (a)  A dispute concerning the existence or amount of
 3        the delinquency; or
 4             (b)  The identity of the obligor.
 5        The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify  the  obligor
 6    and the obligee or public office of the time and place of the
 7    hearing  on  the  petition to contest withholding.  The court
 8    shall  hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to  the  provisions   of
 9    subsection (F).
10    (D)  Initiated Withholding.
11        (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
12    if  the  court  has not required that income withholding take
13    effect immediately, the obligee or public office may initiate
14    withholding, regardless of whether a delinquency has accrued,
15    by preparing and serving an income withholding notice on  the
16    payor  that contains the information required under paragraph
17    (3) of subsection (B) and states that  the  parties'  written
18    agreement  providing  an alternative arrangement to immediate
19    withholding under paragraph (1) of subsection (B)  no  longer
20    ensures  payment  of support and the reason or reasons why it
21    does not.
22        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
23    of the income withholding notice shall be served as  provided
24    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
25        (3)  The  obligor may contest withholding commenced under
26    this subsection by filing a petition to  contest  withholding
27    with  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit Court within 20 days after
28    service of a copy of the income  withholding  notice  on  the
29    obligor.  However,  the  grounds  for  the  petition shall be
30    limited to a dispute concerning:
31             (a)  whether   the   parties'   written    agreement
32        providing   an   alternative   arrangement  to  immediate
33        withholding  under  paragraph  (1)  of   subsection   (B)
34        continues to ensure payment of support; or
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 1             (b)  the identity of the obligor.
 2        It  shall  not  be grounds for filing a petition that the
 3    obligor has  made  all  payments  due  by  the  date  of  the
 4    petition.
 5        (4)  If   the   obligor   files   a  petition  contesting
 6    withholding within the 20-day period required under paragraph
 7    (3), the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify the  obligor
 8    and the obligee or public office, as appropriate, of the time
 9    and  place  of  the hearing on the petition.  The court shall
10    hold the hearing pursuant to  the  provisions  of  subsection
11    (F).
12    (E)  Duties of Payor.
13        (1)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any payor who has been
14    served with an income withholding notice to  deduct  and  pay
15    over  income as provided in this subsection.  The payor shall
16    deduct  the  amount  designated  in  the  income  withholding
17    notice, as supplemented by any notice  provided  pursuant  to
18    paragraph  (6) of subsection (G), beginning no later than the
19    next payment of income which is payable or creditable to  the
20    obligor  that  occurs  14  days following the date the income
21    withholding notice was mailed, sent  by  facsimile  or  other
22    electronic  means,  or  placed  for  personal  delivery to or
23    service on the payor.  The  payor  may  combine  all  amounts
24    withheld  for the benefit of an obligee or public office into
25    a single payment and transmit the payment with a  listing  of
26    obligors  from  whom withholding has been effected. The payor
27    shall pay the amount withheld to the obligee or public office
28    within 7 business days after the date the amount  would  (but
29    for  the  duty to withhold income) have been paid or credited
30    to the obligor. If the  payor  knowingly  fails  to  pay  any
31    amount  withheld  to  the  obligee  or public office within 7
32    business days after the date the amount would have been  paid
33    or  credited to the obligor, the payor shall pay a penalty of
34    $100 for each day that the withheld amount is not paid to the
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 1    obligee or public office after the period of 7 business  days
 2    has  expired.   The  failure  of  a  payor,  on more than one
 3    occasion, to pay amounts withheld to the  obligee  or  public
 4    office within 7 business days after the date the amount would
 5    have   been  paid  or  credited  to  the  obligor  creates  a
 6    presumption that the payor knowingly failed to pay  over  the
 7    amounts.  This penalty, along with any amounts required to be
 8    withheld  and  paid, may be collected in a civil action which
 9    may be brought against the payor in favor of the  obligee  or
10    public  office.  A finding of a payor's nonperformance within
11    the time required under this Section must be documented by  a
12    certified  mail  return  receipt  showing the date the income
13    withholding notice was served on the payor. For  purposes  of
14    this Section, a withheld amount shall be considered paid by a
15    payor  on  the date it is mailed by the payor, or on the date
16    an electronic funds transfer of the amount has been initiated
17    by the payor, or on the date delivery of the amount has  been
18    initiated  by  the payor. For each deduction, the payor shall
19    provide  the  obligee  or  public  office,  at  the  time  of
20    transmittal, with the date the amount would (but for the duty
21    to withhold  income)  have  been  paid  or  credited  to  the
22    obligor.  The  payor shall not be required to vary the normal
23    pay and disbursement cycles in  order  to  comply  with  this
24    paragraph.
25        Upon  receipt  of  an income withholding notice requiring
26    that a minor child be named as  a  beneficiary  of  a  health
27    insurance  plan  available through an employer or labor union
28    or trade union, the employer or labor union  or  trade  union
29    shall  immediately enroll the minor child as a beneficiary in
30    the  health  insurance  plan   designated   by   the   income
31    withholding notice.  The employer shall withhold any required
32    premiums  and  pay  over  any  amounts  so  withheld  and any
33    additional amounts the employer pays to the insurance carrier
34    in a timely manner.  The employer or  labor  union  or  trade
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 1    union shall mail to the obligee, within 15 days of enrollment
 2    or  upon request, notice of the date of coverage, information
 3    on the dependent coverage plan, and all  forms  necessary  to
 4    obtain  reimbursement  for  covered  health expenses, such as
 5    would be made available  to a new employee. When an order for
 6    dependent coverage is in effect and the insurance coverage is
 7    terminated or changed for any reason, the employer  or  labor
 8    union  or trade union shall notify the obligee within 10 days
 9    of the termination  or  change  date  along  with  notice  of
10    conversion privileges.
11        For withholding of income, the payor shall be entitled to
12    receive a fee not to exceed $5 per month to be taken from the
13    income to be paid to the obligor.
14        (2)  Whenever  the  obligor is no longer receiving income
15    from the payor, the payor shall return a copy of  the  income
16    withholding  notice to the obligee or public office and shall
17    provide  information  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing   this
18    Section.
19        (3)  Withholding  of  income  under this Section shall be
20    made without regard to any prior or subsequent  garnishments,
21    attachments,   wage  assignments,  or  any  other  claims  of
22    creditors.  Withholding of income under  this  Section  shall
23    not  be  in excess of the maximum amounts permitted under the
24    federal Consumer Credit Protection Act. If the payor has been
25    served  with  more  than  one   income   withholding   notice
26    pertaining  to  the  same  obligor,  the payor shall allocate
27    income available for withholding  on  a  proportionate  share
28    basis, giving priority to current support payments.  If there
29    is any income available for withholding after withholding for
30    all current support obligations, the payor shall allocate the
31    income to past due support payments ordered in cases in which
32    cash  assistance  under  the  Illinois Public Aid Code is not
33    being provided to the obligee and then to  past  due  support
34    payments  ordered in cases in which cash assistance under the
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 1    Illinois Public Aid Code is being provided  to  the  obligee,
 2    both  on  a  proportionate  share basis. A payor who complies
 3    with an income withholding notice that is regular on its face
 4    shall not be subject to civil liability with respect  to  any
 5    individual,  any  agency,  or any creditor of the obligor for
 6    conduct in compliance with the notice.
 7        (4)  No payor shall discharge, discipline, refuse to hire
 8    or otherwise penalize any obligor  because  of  the  duty  to
 9    withhold income.
10    (F)  Petitions  to Contest Withholding or to Modify, Suspend,
11    Terminate, or Correct Income Withholding Notices.
12        (1)  When  an  obligor  files  a  petition   to   contest
13    withholding,  the  court,  after  due  notice to all parties,
14    shall hear the matter as soon as practicable and shall  enter
15    an  order  granting or denying relief, ordering service of an
16    amended  income  withholding  notice,  where  applicable,  or
17    otherwise resolving the matter.
18        The court shall deny the obligor's petition if the  court
19    finds  that  when  the  income withholding notice was mailed,
20    sent by facsimile transmission or other electronic means,  or
21    placed for personal delivery to or service on the payor:
22             (a)  A delinquency existed; or
23             (b)  The  parties'  written  agreement  providing an
24        alternative arrangement to  immediate  withholding  under
25        paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer ensured payment
26        of support.
27        (2)  At  any  time, an obligor, obligee, public office or
28    Clerk of the Circuit Court may petition the court to:
29             (a)  Modify,  suspend  or   terminate   the   income
30        withholding  notice because of a modification, suspension
31        or termination of the underlying order for support; or
32             (b)  Modify the amount of income to be  withheld  to
33        reflect  payment in full or in part of the delinquency or
34        arrearage by income withholding or otherwise; or
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 1             (c)  Suspend the income withholding  notice  because
 2        of  inability  to  deliver income withheld to the obligee
 3        due to the obligee's failure to provide a mailing address
 4        or other means of delivery.
 5        (3)  At any time an obligor may  petition  the  court  to
 6    correct  a  term contained in an income withholding notice to
 7    conform to that stated in the underlying  order  for  support
 8    for:
 9             (a)  The amount of current support;
10             (b)  The amount of the arrearage;
11             (c)  The   periodic   amount   for  payment  of  the
12        arrearage; or
13             (d)  The  periodic  amount  for   payment   of   the
14        delinquency.
15        (4)  The obligor, obligee or public office shall serve on
16    the  payor,  in  the  manner  provided  for service of income
17    withholding notices in paragraph (7)  of  subsection  (B),  a
18    copy  of  any  order entered pursuant to this subsection that
19    affects the duties of the payor.
20        (5)  At any time, a public office or Clerk of the Circuit
21    Court may serve a notice on the payor to:
22             (a)  Cease withholding  of  income  for  payment  of
23        current  support  for a child when the support obligation
24        for that child has automatically ceased under  the  order
25        for support through emancipation or otherwise; or
26             (b)  Cease  withholding  of  income  for  payment of
27        delinquency  or  arrearage  when   the   delinquency   or
28        arrearage has been paid in full.
29        (6)  The  notice provided for under paragraph (5) of this
30    subsection shall  be  served  on  the  payor  in  the  manner
31    provided   for  service  of  income  withholding  notices  in
32    paragraph (7) of subsection (B), and a copy shall be provided
33    to the obligor and the obligee.
34        (7)  The income withholding notice shall continue  to  be
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 1    binding  upon  the  payor  until service of an amended income
 2    withholding notice or  any  order  of  the  court  or  notice
 3    entered or provided for under this subsection.
 4    (G)  Additional Duties.
 5        (1)  An  obligee  who  is  receiving  income  withholding
 6    payments  under  this  Section shall notify the payor, if the
 7    obligee receives the payments directly from the payor, or the
 8    public  office  or  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,   as
 9    appropriate,  of  any change of address within 7 days of such
10    change.
11        (2)  An obligee who is a recipient of  public  aid  shall
12    send  a  copy  of any income withholding notice served by the
13    obligee to the Attorney General.
14        (3)  Each obligor shall notify the  obligee,  the  public
15    office,  and  the Clerk of the Circuit Court of any change of
16    address within 7 days.
17        (4)  An obligor whose income is being withheld or who has
18    been served with a notice of  delinquency  pursuant  to  this
19    Section  shall notify the obligee, the public office, and the
20    Clerk of the Circuit Court of any new payor, within 7 days.
21        (5)  When the Office of the Attorney General is no longer
22    authorized to receive payments for  the  obligee,  it  shall,
23    within  7  days,  notify the payor or, where appropriate, the
24    Clerk of the Circuit Court, to  redirect  income  withholding
25    payments to the obligee.
26        (6)  The obligee or public office shall provide notice to
27    the payor and Clerk of the Circuit Court of any other support
28    payment  made,  including but not limited to, a set-off under
29    federal and State law or partial payment of  the  delinquency
30    or arrearage, or both.
31        (7)  Any  public  office  and  Clerk of the Circuit Court
32    which collects, disburses or receives  payments  pursuant  to
33    income withholding notices shall maintain complete, accurate,
34    and  clear  records  of all payments and their disbursements.
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 1    Certified copies of payment records maintained  by  a  public
 2    office  or  Clerk of the Circuit Court shall, without further
 3    proof, be admitted into evidence  in  any  legal  proceedings
 4    under this Section.
 5        (8)  The  Attorney  General  shall design suggested legal
 6    forms for  proceeding  under  this  Section  and  shall  make
 7    available   to   the  courts  such  forms  and  informational
 8    materials which describe  the  procedures  and  remedies  set
 9    forth  herein  for  distribution  to  all  parties in support
10    actions.
11        (9)  At the time of transmitting  each  support  payment,
12    the  clerk  of the circuit court shall provide the obligee or
13    public office, as appropriate, with any information furnished
14    by the payor as to the date the amount  would  (but  for  the
15    duty  to  withhold  income) have been paid or credited to the
16    obligor.
17    (H)  Penalties.
18        (1)  Where a payor wilfully fails to withhold or pay over
19    income pursuant  to  a  properly  served  income  withholding
20    notice,  or wilfully discharges, disciplines, refuses to hire
21    or otherwise penalizes an obligor as prohibited by subsection
22    (E), or otherwise fails to comply with any duties imposed  by
23    this  Section,  the  obligee,  public  office  or obligor, as
24    appropriate, may file a complaint with the court against  the
25    payor.   The  clerk  of  the  circuit  court shall notify the
26    obligee or public office, as appropriate, and the obligor and
27    payor of the time and place of the hearing on the  complaint.
28    The  court  shall  resolve any factual dispute including, but
29    not limited to, a denial that the payor is paying or has paid
30    income to the obligor.   Upon  a  finding  in  favor  of  the
31    complaining party, the court:
32             (a)  Shall enter judgment and direct the enforcement
33        thereof  for  the  total  amount  that the payor wilfully
34        failed to withhold or pay over; and
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 1             (b)  May order employment  or  reinstatement  of  or
 2        restitution  to  the  obligor, or both, where the obligor
 3        has been discharged, disciplined,  denied  employment  or
 4        otherwise  penalized  by  the payor and may impose a fine
 5        upon the payor not to exceed $200.
 6        (2)  Any obligee, public office or obligor  who  wilfully
 7    initiates  a  false  proceeding  under  this  Section  or who
 8    wilfully fails  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this
 9    Section shall be punished as in cases of contempt of court.
10    (I)  Alternative   Procedures   for   Service  of  an  Income
11    Withholding Notice.
12        (1)  The procedures of this subsection may be used in any
13    matter to serve an income withholding notice on a payor if:
14             (a)  For  any  reason  the  most  recent  order  for
15        support entered does not contain the  income  withholding
16        provisions required under subsection (B), irrespective of
17        whether  a  separate  order  for  withholding was entered
18        prior to July 1, 1997; and
19             (b)  The obligor has  accrued  a  delinquency  after
20        entry of the most recent order for support.
21        (2)  The obligee or public office shall prepare and serve
22    the   income   withholding  notice  in  accordance  with  the
23    provisions of subsection (C), except that  the  notice  shall
24    contain  a  periodic  amount  for  payment of the delinquency
25    equal to 20% of the total of the current support  amount  and
26    the  amount  to  be  paid  periodically  for  payment  of any
27    arrearage stated in the most recent order for support.
28        (3)  If the  obligor  requests  in  writing  that  income
29    withholding  become effective prior to the obligor accruing a
30    delinquency under the most  recent  order  for  support,  the
31    obligee  or  public  office  may  prepare and serve an income
32    withholding notice on the payor  as  provided  in  subsection
33    (B).   In  addition to filing proofs of service of the income
34    withholding notice on the payor and the obligor, the  obligee
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 1    or  public  office shall file a copy of the obligor's written
 2    request for income withholding with the Clerk of the  Circuit
 3    Court.
 4        (4)  All  other  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be
 5    applicable  with respect to the provisions of this subsection
 6    (I).
 7    (J)  Remedies in Addition to Other Laws.
 8        (1)  The rights, remedies, duties and  penalties  created
 9    by  this  Section  are in addition to and not in substitution
10    for any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties  created
11    by any other law.
12        (2)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  as
13    invalidating  any  assignment  of  wages or benefits executed
14    prior to January 1, 1984 or any order for withholding  served
15    prior to July 1, 1997.
16        (15 ILCS 205/7.170 new)
17        Sec.  7.170.  Posting  security,  bond  or  guarantee  to
18    secure  payment.    The  court  may  require  the responsible
19    relative  to  post  security  or  bond  or  give  some  other
20    guarantee of a character  and  amount  sufficient  to  assure
21    payment of any amount of support due.
22        (15 ILCS 205/7.172 new)
23        Sec. 7.172.  Information concerning obligors.
24        (a)  In this Section:
25        "Arrearage",  "delinquency",  "obligor",  and  "order for
26    support" have the  meanings  attributed  to  those  terms  in
27    Section 7.165 of this Act.
28        "Consumer reporting agency" has the meaning attributed to
29    that term in Section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act,
30    15 U.S.C. 1681a(f).
31        (b)  Whenever  a  court  of  competent jurisdiction finds
32    that an obligor either owes an arrearage of more than $10,000
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 1    or is delinquent in payment of an amount equal to at least  3
 2    months'  support obligation pursuant to an order for support,
 3    the court shall  direct  the  clerk  of  the  court  to  make
 4    information  concerning  the  obligor  available  to consumer
 5    reporting agencies.
 6        (c)  Whenever a court  of  competent  jurisdiction  finds
 7    that an obligor either owes an arrearage of more than $10,000
 8    or  is delinquent in payment of an amount equal to at least 3
 9    months' support obligation pursuant to an order for  support,
10    the  court  shall  direct the clerk of the court to cause the
11    obligor's name and address to be published in a newspaper  of
12    general circulation in the area in which the obligor resides.
13    The  clerk  shall  cause the obligor's name and address to be
14    published only after sending to the obligor at the  obligor's
15    last   known  address,  by  certified  mail,  return  receipt
16    requested, a notice of intent  to  publish  the  information.
17    This  subsection  (c)  applies only if the obligor resides in
18    the county in which the clerk of the court holds office.
19        (15 ILCS 205/7.175 new)
20        Sec. 7.175.  Other actions and remedies for support.  The
21    procedures,  actions  and  remedies  provided in Sections 7.1
22    through 7.295 shall in no way  be  exclusive,  but  shall  be
23    available  in  addition  to  other  actions  and  remedies of
24    support,  including,  but  not  by  way  of  limitation,  the
25    remedies provided in the Paternity Act,  the  Non-Support  of
26    Spouse  and  Children Act, and the Revised Uniform Reciprocal
27    Enforcement of Support Act.
28        (15 ILCS 205/7.180 new)
29        Sec. 7.180.  Administrative order by  registration.   The
30    Attorney  General may provide by rule for the registration of
31    a support order entered by a court or administrative body  of
32    this  or any other State.  Registration shall be for the sole
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 1    purpose of enforcing  the  registered  order  and  shall  not
 2    confer  jurisdiction  on  the  Attorney General for any other
 3    purpose, including modification.    Upon  registration,  such
 4    support  order  shall  become  an administrative order of the
 5    Child and Spouse Support Unit by operation of law.  The  rule
 6    shall provide for notice to and an opportunity to be heard by
 7    the    responsible    relative   affected   and   any   final
 8    administrative decision  rendered  by  the  Attorney  General
 9    shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and  in accordance with the
10    Administrative Review Law.
11        Any new or  existing  support  order  registered  by  the
12    Attorney  General  under this Section shall be deemed to be a
13    series of judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay
14    support thereunder, each such judgment to be in the amount of
15    each payment or installment of support and each such judgment
16    to be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment
17    or  installment  becomes  due  under the terms of the support
18    order.  Each such judgment shall be enforceable in  the  same
19    manner  as any other judgment in this State. A lien arises by
20    operation of law against the real and  personal  property  of
21    the  noncustodial  parent  for  each  installment  of overdue
22    support owed by the noncustodial parent.
23        (15 ILCS 205/7.185 new)
24        Sec. 7.185.  Income withholding by administrative  order.
25    The  Attorney  General  may  provide  by rule for entry of an
26    administrative support order  containing  income  withholding
27    provisions  and  for  service  and  enforcement  of an income
28    withholding notice, by the  Child  and  Spouse  Support  Unit
29    based  upon  and  in the same manner as prescribed by Section
30    7.165. The penalties provided in Section  7.165  shall  apply
31    hereto  and  shall be enforced by filing an action under that
32    Section.  The  rule  shall  provide  for  notice  to  and  an
33    opportunity to be heard by the responsible relative  affected
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 1    and   any  final  administrative  decision  rendered  by  the
 2    Attorney  General  shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and   in
 3    accordance with the Administrative Review Law.
 4        (15 ILCS 205/7.190 new)
 5        Sec.  7.190.  Federal  income  tax refund intercept.  The
 6    Attorney General may provide by rule for certification to the
 7    Department of Health and Human Services of past  due  support
 8    owed  by  responsible relatives under a support order entered
 9    by a court or administrative body of this or any other  State
10    on  behalf  of resident or non-resident persons.  The purpose
11    of certification shall be to  intercept  federal  income  tax
12    refunds  due such relatives in order to satisfy such past due
13    support in whole or in part.
14        The rule shall provide for notice to and  an  opportunity
15    to  be  heard  by  the  responsible relative affected and any
16    final  administrative  decision  rendered  by  the   Attorney
17    General  shall  be reviewed only under and in accordance with
18    the  Administrative  Review  Law.   Certification  shall   be
19    accomplished  in  accordance  with  Title  IV,  Part D of the
20    federal  Social  Security  Act  and  rules  and   regulations
21    promulgated thereunder.
22        (15 ILCS 205/7.195 new)
23        Sec.   7.195.  Security,  bond  or  guarantee  to  secure
24    payment.  The Attorney General may provide by  rule  for  the
25    requiring  of, or for the requesting of the court to require,
26    a responsible relative to post security or bond or give  some
27    other  guarantee  of  a  character  and  amount sufficient to
28    assure payment of  any  amount  due  under  a  support  order
29    entered  by  a  court  or  administrative body of this or any
30    other State on behalf of resident  or  non-resident  persons.
31    The rule shall provide for notice to and an opportunity to be
32    heard  by  each  responsible  relative affected and any final
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 1    administrative decision  rendered  by  the  Attorney  General
 2    shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and  in accordance with the
 3    Administrative Review Law.
 4        (15 ILCS 205/7.200 new)
 5        Sec. 7.200.  State income tax refund  and  other  payment
 6    intercept.   The  Attorney  General  may  provide by rule for
 7    certification to the Comptroller of past due support owed  by
 8    responsible  relatives  under  a  support  order entered by a
 9    court or administrative body of this or any  other  State  on
10    behalf  of  resident or non-resident persons.  The purpose of
11    certification shall be to intercept state income tax  refunds
12    and  other  payments  due  such relatives in order to satisfy
13    such past due support, in whole or in part,  whether  or  not
14    such  support  is  owed to the State.  The rule shall provide
15    (i) for notice to and an  opportunity  to  be  heard  by  the
16    responsible  relative and any joint payee affected, (ii) that
17    any final administrative decision rendered  by  the  Attorney
18    General  shall  be reviewed only under and in accordance with
19    the Administrative Review  Law,  (iii)  for  distribution  of
20    intercepted  moneys  in  accordance with the federal Personal
21    Responsibility and Work  Opportunity  Reconciliation  Act  of
22    1996,  and  (iv)  for provision of the responsible relative's
23    social  security  number  (or  numbers  if  the   responsible
24    relative  has  more than one such number) and home address to
25    the Illinois Department of Public Aid  and  to  the  Attorney
26    General.   In  any  case  where  a state income tax refund is
27    intercepted wrongfully or erroneously,  the Attorney  General
28    shall  pay  to such relative and any joint payee affected the
29    amount of the refund plus interest, if any, on such amount at
30    the rate of 9% per annum (or at  such  adjusted  rate  as  is
31    established  under  Section  6621(b)  of the Internal Revenue
32    Code).  Interest  shall  be  calculated  from  the  date  the
33    Attorney   General  receives  the  refund  or  from  60  days
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 1    following the date the Attorney General receives a request to
 2    be heard, whichever is later, until the date  of  payment  to
 3    such relative and joint payee.
 4        (15 ILCS 205/7.205 new)
 5        Sec.  7.205.  Past  due  support information to licensing
 6    agencies.  The Attorney  General  may  provide  by  rule  for
 7    certification  to  any  State  licensing  agency  of past due
 8    support owed by responsible relatives under a  support  order
 9    entered  by  a  court  or  administrative body of this or any
10    other State on behalf of resident  or  non-resident  persons.
11    The rule shall provide for notice to and an opportunity to be
12    heard  by  each  responsible  relative affected and any final
13    administrative decision  rendered  by  the  Attorney  General
14    shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and  in accordance with the
15    Administrative Review Law.
16        (15 ILCS 205/7.210 new)
17        Sec. 7.210.  Administrative determination  of  paternity.
18    The   Attorney   General   may   provide   by  rule  for  the
19    administrative determination of paternity by  the  Child  and
20    Spouse  Support  Unit  in  cases  involving applicants for or
21    recipients of financial aid under Article IV of the  Illinois
22    Public Aid Code and other persons who are given access to the
23    child and spouse support services of this Article as provided
24    in  Section  7.5,  including  persons  similarly situated and
25    receiving similar services in other states.  The rules  shall
26    extend  to  cases  in  which  the  mother  and alleged father
27    voluntarily acknowledge paternity in the form required by the
28    Attorney General, or agree to be  bound  by  the  results  of
29    genetic testing, or in which the alleged father has failed to
30    respond  to a notification of support obligation issued under
31    Section 7.30, and for purposes of the  program  provided  for
32    under  Section  12-4.31  of  the  Illinois Public Aid Code to
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 1    cases of contested paternity involving only applicants for or
 2    recipients of assistance under Articles IV, V, and VI of  the
 3    Illinois Public Aid Code.  Any presumption provided for under
 4    the  Illinois  Parentage  Act of 1984 shall apply to cases in
 5    which paternity is determined under the rules of the Attorney
 6    General.   The  rules  shall  provide  for  notice   and   an
 7    opportunity  to be heard by the responsible relative affected
 8    if paternity is not voluntarily acknowledged, and  any  final
 9    administrative  decision  rendered  by  the  Attorney General
10    shall be reviewed only  under  and  in  accordance  with  the
11    Administrative  Review  Law. Determinations of paternity made
12    by the Attorney General under the rules  authorized  by  this
13    Section  shall  have  the  full  force  and effect of a court
14    judgment of paternity entered under  the  Illinois  Parentage
15    Act of 1984.
16        In determining paternity in contested cases, the Attorney
17    General  shall  conduct the evidentiary hearing in accordance
18    with Section 11 of the Parentage Act  of  1984,  except  that
19    references  in that Section to "the court" shall be deemed to
20    mean the Attorney General's hearing officer in cases in which
21    paternity is  determined  administratively  by  the  Attorney
22    General.
23    The Attorney General shall provide by rule for procedures for
24    genetic  testing  in  accordance  with any applicable federal
25    laws.
26        Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  Sections  7.1
27    through 7.295, and  regarding  only  cases  included  in  the
28    program  provided  for  under Section 12-4.31 of the Illinois
29    Public Aid Code, a default determination of paternity may  be
30    made  if service of the notice under Section 7.30 was made by
31    publication under  the  rules  for  administrative  paternity
32    determination  authorized by this Section.  The rules as they
33    pertain to service by publication shall (i) be based  on  the
34    provisions  of  Section  2-206 and 2-207 of the Code of Civil
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 1    Procedure, (ii) provide for service by publication  in  cases
 2    in  which  the  whereabouts of the alleged father are unknown
 3    after diligent location  efforts  by  the  Child  and  Spouse
 4    Support  Unit,  and (iii) provide for publication of a notice
 5    of default paternity determination in the  same  manner  that
 6    the notice under Section 7.30 was published.
 7        Notwithstanding   the   limitation  on  review  of  final
 8    administrative decisions contained in the first paragraph  of
 9    this  Section,  a  man  administratively determined to be the
10    father of a child by default, if  the  notice  under  Section
11    7.30  was  served by publication, may bring a petition in the
12    circuit   court   for   relief   from   the    administrative
13    determination  of  paternity on the same grounds provided for
14    relief from judgments under Section 2-1401  of  the  Code  of
15    Civil Procedure.  The petition must be filed not later than 2
16    years after notice of the default determination was published
17    in  accordance  with  the  rules  of  the  Attorney  General.
18    Allegations in the petition made without reasonable cause and
19    found  to  be  untrue  shall  subject  the  petitioner or his
20    attorney, or both, to the payment  of  reasonable  costs  and
21    attorney's fees incurred by the Attorney General in defending
22    against the petition.
23        The  Attorney  General may implement this Section through
24    the use of emergency rules in accordance with Section 5-45 of
25    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.  For  purposes  of
26    the  Illinois  Administrative  Procedure Act, the adoption of
27    rules to  implement  this  Section  shall  be  considered  an
28    emergency  and necessary for the public interest, safety, and
29    welfare.
30        (15 ILCS 205/7.215 new)
31        Sec. 7.215.  New birth certificate.  The Attorney General
32    shall notify the Department  of  Public  Health  of  a  final
33    determination  of parentage and a voluntary acknowledgment of
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 1    paternity made under the rules authorized by  Section  7.210,
 2    and  the  Department  of  Public  Health  shall  issue  a new
 3    certificate of birth pursuant to  Section  17  of  the  Vital
 4    Records Act.
 5        (15 ILCS 205/7.220 new)
 6        Sec.   7.220.  Past  due  support  information  to  State
 7    Department of Revenue.
 8        (a)  The  Attorney  General  may  provide  by  rule   for
 9    certification  to  the Illinois Department of Revenue of past
10    due support owed by responsible  relatives  under  a  support
11    order  entered  by  a court or administrative body of this or
12    any  other  State  on  behalf  of  resident  or  non-resident
13    persons.  The  rule  shall  provide  for  notice  to  and  an
14    opportunity   to   be  heard  by  each  responsible  relative
15    affected.  Any final administrative decision rendered by  the
16    Attorney   General  shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and  in
17    accordance with the Administrative Review Law.  A responsible
18    relative may avoid certification to the  Illinois  Department
19    of Revenue by establishing a satisfactory repayment record as
20    determined by the Attorney General.
21        (b)  A  certified past due support amount shall be final.
22    The  certified  amount  shall  be  payable  to  the  Illinois
23    Department  of  Revenue  upon  written  notification  of  the
24    certification to the responsible  relative  by  the  Illinois
25    Department of Revenue.
26        (c)  In   the   event  a  responsible  relative  overpays
27    pursuant to collection under this Section and the  applicable
28    Sections  of  the  Illinois  Income  Tax Act, the overpayment
29    shall be a credit against future support obligations.  If the
30    current support obligation of the  responsible  relative  has
31    terminated under  operation of law or court order, any moneys
32    overpaid  but still in the possession of the Attorney General
33    shall be promptly returned to the responsible relative.
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 1        (d)  Except as otherwise provided in  this  Article,  any
 2    child   support   delinquency   certified   to  the  Illinois
 3    Department of Revenue shall be treated  as  a  child  support
 4    delinquency for all other purposes, and any collection action
 5    by the State's Attorney or the Illinois Department of Revenue
 6    with  respect to any delinquency certified under Sections 7.1
 7    through  7.295  shall  have   the   same   priority   against
 8    attachment, execution, assignment, or other collection action
 9    as is provided by any other provision of State law.
10        (e)  Any  child  support  delinquency  collected  by  the
11    Illinois  Department of Revenue, including those amounts that
12    result in overpayment of a child support  delinquency,  shall
13    be  deposited  in,  or  transferred  to,  the  Child  Support
14    Enforcement Trust Fund.
15        (15 ILCS 205/7.221 new)
16        Sec.  7.221.  Requests to other states for administrative
17    enforcement. The Attorney General may provide by rule for the
18    procedures to be followed in the  administrative  enforcement
19    of  interstate  cases.  The rule may provide for responses to
20    requests made by other states to enforce  support  orders  in
21    accordance  with any applicable federal laws and regulations,
22    for certification to other states' child support  enforcement
23    agencies  of  past  due support owed by responsible relatives
24    under a support order entered by a  court  or  administrative
25    body  of  this  or  any  other state on behalf of resident or
26    nonresident persons (including certification of the amount of
27    support in arrears and of compliance with all procedural  due
28    process   requirements),   and  for  maintenance  of  records
29    relating to interstate cases. The  purpose  of  certification
30    shall   be   to  request  the  other  states'  assistance  in
31    administrative enforcement of the support orders.   The  rule
32    shall provide for notice to and an opportunity to be heard by
33    the    responsible   relative   affected,   and   any   final
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 1    administrative decision  rendered  by  the  Attorney  General
 2    shall  be  reviewed  only  under  and  in accordance with the
 3    Administrative Review Law.
 4        (15 ILCS 205/7.223 new)
 5        Sec. 7.223.  Grandparents' support  obligation.   If  the
 6    noncustodial  parent  of  a  child is an unemancipated minor,
 7    then to the extent that the  minor  parent  has  insufficient
 8    financial   resources   to   fulfill   his   or  her  support
 9    responsibilities to the child,  the  parents  of  that  minor
10    parent  are  jointly  and severally responsible for any child
11    support for the child of that minor parent if that child is a
12    recipient of assistance under the State's plan  for  aid  and
13    services to needy families with children.
14        (15 ILCS 205/7.225 new)
15        Sec.    7.225.  Recoveries;   deductibility   of   direct
16    relatives' support payment. In any actions for  the  recovery
17    of  the  financial aid, including actions for the enforcement
18    of estate and lien claims, amounts contributed by responsible
19    relatives either voluntarily or by  court  or  administrative
20    order and paid to the Illinois Department of Public Aid or to
21    a local governmental unit shall be deducted from the claim of
22    the State or the governmental unit.
23        (15 ILCS 205/7.230 new)
24        Sec.  7.230.  Support  payments ordered under other laws.
25    The Attorney General, Illinois Department of Public Aid,  and
26    local  governmental  units are authorized to receive payments
27    directed by court order for the  support  of  recipients,  as
28    provided in the following Acts:
29             (1)  The Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act.
30             (2)  The   Illinois   Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
31        Marriage Act.
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 1             (3)  The Illinois Parentage Act.
 2             (4)  The Revised Uniform Reciprocal  Enforcement  of
 3        Support Act.
 4             (5)  The  Juvenile  Court  Act or the Juvenile Court
 5        Act of 1987.
 6             (6)  The Unified Code of Corrections.
 7             (7)  Part 7 of Article XII  of  the  Code  of  Civil
 8        Procedure.
 9             (8)  Part  8  of  Article  XII  of the Code of Civil
10        Procedure.
11             (9)  Other laws which may provide by judicial  order
12        for direct payment of support moneys.
13        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
14    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
15    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
16    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
17    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
18    to the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  be  deposited
19    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
20    from  these  funds  shall be as provided in Sections 12-9 and
21    12-10.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Payments received by
22    a local governmental unit shall be deposited in  that  unit's
23    General Assistance Fund.
24        (15 ILCS 205/7.235 new)
25        Sec.  7.235.  Amnesty  program.  The Attorney General may
26    provide by rule for the  establishment  of  a  child  support
27    enforcement amnesty program for responsible relatives who owe
28    support  under  Sections  7.1  through  7.295,  to the extent
29    permitted by federal law  and  regulation.   The  rule  shall
30    provide  for the suspending of specified enforcement actions,
31    the duration of the suspension period or periods, the  action
32    the   responsible   relative   must   take  to  avoid  future
33    enforcement action, and the announcement of the program.
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 1        (15 ILCS 205/7.240 new)
 2        Sec. 7.240.  Collection of past-due child support charge.
 3    The Attorney General may collect, on behalf of  the  Illinois
 4    Department  of Public Aid, any one-time charge imposed on the
 5    amount of past-due child support in accordance  with  Section
 6    10-21  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid Code, subsection (c) of
 7    Section 505 of  the  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
 8    Marriage  Act,  Section  3  of  the Non-Support of Spouse and
 9    Children Act, Section 24 of the  Revised  Uniform  Reciprocal
10    Enforcement  of Support Act, and subsection (g) of Section 14
11    of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984.
12        (15 ILCS 205/7.245 new)
13        Sec. 7.245.  State employees.  The Attorney General, upon
14    receipt of a statement of child support  obligation  provided
15    under  the  Child  Support  Information Act, shall review its
16    records and take appropriate  action  to  enforce  the  child
17    support  obligation  if  the  State employee is a responsible
18    relative  in  a  case  receiving  child  and  spouse  support
19    services under Sections 7.1 through 7.295.
20        (15 ILCS 205/7.250 new)
21        Sec.  7.250.   Employer  obligations.   If  a  parent  is
22    required by a court or administrative order  for  support  to
23    provide  coverage  for  a child's health care expenses and if
24    that coverage is available to the parent through an  employer
25    who  does business in this State, the employer must do all of
26    the following upon receipt of a copy of the order of  support
27    or order for withholding:
28             (1)  The  employer shall, upon the parent's request,
29        permit the parent to include in that coverage a child who
30        is otherwise eligible for that coverage,  without  regard
31        to   any   enrollment   season  restrictions  that  might
32        otherwise be applicable as  to  the  time  period  within
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 1        which the child may be added to that coverage.
 2             (2)  If  the parent has health care coverage through
 3        the employer but fails  to  apply  for  coverage  of  the
 4        child,  the  employer  shall  include  the  child  in the
 5        parent's coverage upon application by the  child's  other
 6        parent or the Attorney General.
 7             (3)  The  employer  may not eliminate any child from
 8        the parent's health care coverage unless the employee  is
 9        no  longer employed by the employer and no longer covered
10        under the employer's group  health  plan  or  unless  the
11        employer  is  provided with satisfactory written evidence
12        of either of the following:
13                  (A)  The court or administrative  order  is  no
14             longer in effect.
15                  (B)  The  child  is  or  will  be included in a
16             comparable health care plan obtained by  the  parent
17             under such order that is currently in effect or will
18             take  effect  no  later  than  the  date  the  prior
19             coverage is terminated.
20             The  employer  may eliminate a child from a parent's
21        health care  coverage  if  the  employer  has  eliminated
22        dependent health care coverage for all of its employees.
23        (15 ILCS 205/7.255 new)
24        Sec.   7.255.   Definitions.   In  this  Section  through
25    Section 7.285:
26        "Account" means a demand  deposit  account,  checking  or
27    negotiable  withdrawal  order  account, savings account, time
28    deposit account, or money market mutual fund account.
29        "Financial institution" includes:
30             (1)  a depository institution, which is any bank  or
31        saving association;
32             (2)  an insured depository institution, which is any
33        bank  or  saving  institution  the  deposits of which are
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 1        insured pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, or
 2        any uninsured branch or agency of a  foreign  bank  or  a
 3        commercial  lending  company  owned  or  controlled  by a
 4        foreign bank;
 5             (3)  a federal depository institution, which is  any
 6        national  bank,  any  federal savings association, or any
 7        federal branch;
 8             (4)  a state depository institution,  which  is  any
 9        state bank, any state savings association, or any insured
10        branch which is not a federal branch;
11             (5)  a  federal credit union, which is a cooperative
12        association organized in accordance with  the  provisions
13        of the Federal Credit Union Act;
14             (6)  a   state   chartered  credit  union  which  is
15        organized and operated according to the laws of  this  or
16        any  other state, which laws provide for the organization
17        of credit unions similar in principle and  objectives  to
18        federal credit unions; and
19             (7)  any  benefit  association,  insurance  company,
20        safe  deposit  company,  money  market  mutual  fund,  or
21        similar entity authorized to do business in this State.
22        "Financial  record" has the meaning given to that term in
23    Section 1101 of the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act of
24    1978 (12 U.S.C. 3401).
25        (15 ILCS 205/7.260 new)
26        Sec. 7.260.  Financial institutions data matches.
27        (a)  The Attorney General may design and implement a data
28    match system pursuant to which  the  Attorney  General  shall
29    enter  into  agreements  with  financial  institutions  doing
30    business  in  this  State  for  the  purpose  of  identifying
31    accounts as defined in Section 7.255 of responsible relatives
32    who owe past-due child support.
33        (b)  Every   agreement  entered  into  with  a  financial
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 1    institution under this Section shall provide, at  the  option
 2    of  the  financial institution, either (i) that the financial
 3    institution shall compare data  concerning  account  holders,
 4    owners,  or  customers  who  maintain one or more accounts as
 5    defined in Section 7.255 at the  financial  institution  with
 6    data   concerning  individuals  identified  by  the  Attorney
 7    General as  responsible  relatives  who  owe  past-due  child
 8    support  and  for  each  of  whom  the Attorney General shall
 9    provide the name, record address, and social security  number
10    or  tax  identification  number,  or  (ii) that the financial
11    institution shall provide the social security number  or  tax
12    identification  number  of  the  account  holders, owners, or
13    customers who maintain  one or more accounts  as  defined  in
14    Section  7.255  at  the financial institution to the Attorney
15    General, who shall compare that  data  with  data  concerning
16    individuals  identified  as  responsible  relatives  who  owe
17    past-due child support.
18        (c)  Every  agreement  shall  provide  that  the Attorney
19    General shall pay to the financial institution  providing  or
20    comparing  the  data  a  reasonable  fee  not  to  exceed the
21    institution's actual cost of providing the data or performing
22    the comparison.
23        (d)  If the financial  institution  or  Attorney  General
24    determines that the name and either social security number or
25    tax  identification number of an individual identified by the
26    Attorney General under subsection  (b)  match  the  name  and
27    either social security number or tax identification number of
28    the  account  holder, owner, or customer who maintains one or
29    more accounts as defined in Section 7.255  at  the  financial
30    institution,  then the financial institution shall report the
31    individual's name and either social security  number  or  tax
32    identification  number  to  the  Attorney  General,  for each
33    calendar quarter in which the individual is identified by the
34    Attorney General as a responsible relative who owes  past-due
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 1    child support.
 2        (15 ILCS 205/7.265 new)
 3        Sec.  7.265.   Types  of  accounts  to  be reported.  The
 4    reporting requirements of Section 7.260 regarding accounts as
 5    defined in Section 7.255 apply to individual accounts,  joint
 6    accounts,  and sole proprietorship accounts. In the case of a
 7    joint account, the account holder or owner shall be deemed to
 8    be the primary account holder or  owner  established  by  the
 9    financial   institution   in  accordance  with  federal  1099
10    reporting requirements.
11        (15 ILCS 205/7.270 new)
12        Sec. 7.270.   Accommodation  of  financial  institutions.
13    The  Attorney  General  shall  make  a  reasonable  effort to
14    accommodate  those  financial  institutions  on   which   the
15    requirements  of  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 would impose a
16    hardship.   In  the  case  of   a   non-automated   financial
17    institution,  a  paper  copy including either social security
18    numbers  or  tax  identification  numbers  is  an  acceptable
19    format.    In   order   to   allow   for   data    processing
20    implementation,  no  agreement shall become effective earlier
21    than 90 days after its execution.
22        (15 ILCS 205/7.275 new)
23        Sec. 7.275.  Financial institution's charges on  account.
24        (a)   If   the  Attorney  General  requests  a  financial
25    institution to hold or  encumber  assets  in  an  account  as
26    defined  in Section 7.255, the financial institution at which
27    the account as defined in Section  7.255  is  maintained  may
28    charge  and  collect  its normally scheduled account activity
29    fees to maintain the account during the period  of  time  the
30    account assets are held or encumbered.
31        (b)  If  the Attorney General takes any action to enforce
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 1    a lien or levy imposed on an account, as defined  in  Section
 2    7.255,  under  Section  7.295,  the  financial institution at
 3    which the account is maintained may charge to the  account  a
 4    fee  of up to $50 and shall deduct the amount of the fee from
 5    the account before remitting any moneys from the  account  to
 6    the Attorney General.
 7        (15 ILCS 205/7.280 new)
 8        Sec.  7.280.   Confidentiality.  All information provided
 9    by a financial institution under Sections 7.255 through 7.285
10    is confidential and may be  used  only  for  the  purpose  of
11    enforcing  payment  of  child  support.  The Attorney General
12    shall adopt rules to safeguard any  confidential  information
13    received from a financial institution.
14        (15 ILCS 205/7.285 new)
15        Sec.   7.285.    Financial   institution's  freedom  from
16    liability.  A financial institution that provides information
17    under Sections 7.255 through 7.285 shall not be liable to any
18    account  holder,  owner,  or  other  person  in  any   civil,
19    criminal, or administrative action for any of the following:
20             (1)  Disclosing  the  required  information  to  the
21        Attorney  General,  any  other  provisions of the law not
22        withstanding.
23             (2)  Holding, encumbering, or surrendering any of an
24        individual's accounts as  defined  in  Section  7.255  in
25        response  to  a  lien  or  order  to withhold and deliver
26        issued by:
27                  (A)  the Attorney General under Sections  7.290
28             and 7.295; or
29                  (B)  a person or entity acting on behalf of the
30             Attorney General.
31             (3)  Any other action taken or omission made in good
32        faith  to  comply  with  Sections  7.255  through  7.285,
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 1        including  individual or mechanical errors, provided that
 2        the  action  or  omission  does  not   constitute   gross
 3        negligence or willful misconduct.
 4        (15 ILCS 205/7.290 new)
 5        Sec.  7.290.  Administrative  liens  and  levies  on real
 6    property for past-due child support.
 7        (a)  The State  shall  have  a  lien  on  all  legal  and
 8    equitable  interests  of  responsible relatives in their real
 9    property in  the  amount  of  past-due  child  support  owing
10    pursuant to an order for child support entered under Sections
11    7.60  and 7.80 of this Act or Sections 10-10 and 10-11 of the
12    Illinois Public Aid Code or under the Illinois  Marriage  and
13    Dissolution  of  Marriage  Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
14    Children Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support  Act,  or
15    the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984.
16        (b)  The  Attorney  General  shall  provide  by  rule for
17    notice to and an opportunity to be heard by each  responsible
18    relative  affected,  and  any  final  administrative decision
19    rendered by the Attorney General shall be reviewed only under
20    and in accordance with the Administrative Review Law.
21        (c)  When enforcing a lien under subsection (a)  of  this
22    Section,  the  Attorney  General  shall have the authority to
23    execute notices of administrative  liens  and  levies,  which
24    shall  contain  the  name  and  address  of  the  responsible
25    relative,  a  legal  description  of  the real property to be
26    levied, the fact that a lien is being  claimed  for  past-due
27    child  support,  and  such  other information as the Attorney
28    General may by rule prescribe.  The  Attorney  General  shall
29    record  the  notice of lien with the recorder or registrar of
30    titles of the county or counties in which the real estate  is
31    located.
32        (d)  The  State's  lien  under  subsection  (a)  shall be
33    enforceable upon the recording or filing of a notice of  lien
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 1    with  the  recorder  or  registrar of titles of the county or
 2    counties in which the real estate is located.  The lien shall
 3    be prior to any lien thereafter recorded or filed  and  shall
 4    be   notice   to   a   subsequent   purchaser,  assignor,  or
 5    encumbrancer of the existence and nature of  the  lien.   The
 6    lien  shall be inferior to the lien of general taxes, special
 7    assessment, and special taxes heretofore or hereafter  levied
 8    by  any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the
 9    State.
10        In the event that title to the land to be affected by the
11    notice of lien is  registered  under  the  Registered  Titles
12    (Torrens) Act, the notice shall be filed in the office of the
13    registrar  of titles as a memorial or charge upon each folium
14    of the register of titles affected by  the  notice;  but  the
15    State shall not have a preference over the rights of any bona
16    fide  purchaser,  mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien
17    holders registered prior to the registration of the notice.
18        (e)  The recorder or registrar of titles of  each  county
19    shall procure a file labeled "Child Support Lien Notices" and
20    an  index  book  labeled  "Child Support Lien Notices".  When
21    notice of any lien is presented to the recorder or  registrar
22    of  titles  for  filing,  the recorder or registrar of titles
23    shall file it in numerical order in the file and shall  enter
24    it  alphabetically  in  the  index.  The entry shall show the
25    name and last known  address  of  the  person  named  in  the
26    notice, the serial number of the notice, the date and hour of
27    filing,  and the amount of child support due at the time when
28    the lien is filed.
29        (f)  The  Attorney  General  shall  not  be  required  to
30    furnish bond or make a deposit for or pay any costs  or  fees
31    of  any  court  or  officer  thereof  in any legal proceeding
32    involving the lien.
33        (g)  To protect the lien of the State for past-due  child
34    support,  the  Attorney  General  may,  from  funds  that are
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 1    available for that purpose, pay or provide for the payment of
 2    necessary or essential repairs,  purchase  tax  certificates,
 3    pay  balances  due  on  land contracts, or pay or cause to be
 4    satisfied any prior liens on the property to which  the  lien
 5    hereunder applies.
 6        (h)  A  lien on real property under this Section shall be
 7    released pursuant to Section 12-101  of  the  Code  of  Civil
 8    Procedure.
 9        (i)  The Attorney General, acting in behalf of the State,
10    may  foreclose  the lien in a judicial proceeding to the same
11    extent and in the same manner as in the enforcement of  other
12    liens.    The   process,  practice,  and  procedure  for  the
13    foreclosure shall be the same as  provided  in  the  Code  of
14    Civil Procedure.
15        (15 ILCS 205/7.295 new)
16        Sec.  7.295.  Administrative liens and levies on personal
17    property for past-due child support.
18        (a)  The State  shall  have  a  lien  on  all  legal  and
19    equitable   interests   of  responsible  relatives  in  their
20    personal property,  including  any  account  in  a  financial
21    institution as defined in Section 7.255, or in the case of an
22    insurance  company or benefit association only in accounts as
23    defined in Section 7.255, in the  amount  of  past-due  child
24    support  owing pursuant to an order for child support entered
25    under Sections 7.60 and 7.80 of this Act  or  Sections  10-10
26    and  10-11  of  the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code or under the
27    Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of  Marriage  Act,  the
28    Non-Support  of  Spouse  and  Children   Act,   the   Uniform
29    Interstate  Family Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act
30    of 1984.
31        (b)  The Attorney  General  shall  provide  by  rule  for
32    notice  to and an opportunity to be heard by each responsible
33    relative affected,  and  any  final  administrative  decision
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 1    rendered by the Attorney General shall be reviewed only under
 2    and in accordance with the Administrative Review Law.
 3        (c)  When  enforcing  a lien under subsection (a) of this
 4    Section, the Attorney General shall  have  the  authority  to
 5    execute  notices  of  administrative  liens and levies, which
 6    shall  contain  the  name  and  address  of  the  responsible
 7    relative, a description of the property  to  be  levied,  the
 8    fact that a lien is being claimed for past-due child support,
 9    and  such  other  information  as the Attorney General may by
10    rule prescribe.  The Attorney General may serve the notice of
11    lien  or  levy  upon  any  financial  institution  where  the
12    accounts as defined  in  Section  7.255  of  the  responsible
13    relative  may  be  held,  for encumbrance or surrender of the
14    accounts  as  defined  in  Section  7.255  by  the  financial
15    institution.
16        (d)  The Attorney General shall enforce its lien  against
17    the  responsible  relative's  personal  property,  other than
18    accounts  as  defined   in   Section   7.255   in   financial
19    institutions,  and  levy  upon  such personal property in the
20    manner provided for enforcement  of  judgments  contained  in
21    Article XII of the Code of Civil Procedure.
22        (e)  The  Attorney  General  shall  not  be  required  to
23    furnish  bond  or make a deposit for or pay any costs or fees
24    of any court or  officer  thereof  in  any  legal  proceeding
25    involving the lien.
26        (f)  To  protect the lien of the State for past-due child
27    support, the  Attorney  General  may,  from  funds  that  are
28    available for that purpose, pay or provide for the payment of
29    necessary or essential repairs, purchase tax certificates, or
30    pay  or cause to be satisfied any prior liens on the property
31    to which the lien hereunder applies.
32        (g)  A lien on personal property under this Section shall
33    be released in the manner provided under Article XII  of  the
34    Code  of  Civil  Procedure.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a
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 1    lien under this Section on accounts  as  defined  in  Section
 2    7.255 shall expire upon the passage of 120 days from the date
 3    of  issuance  of  the  Notice of Lien or Levy by the Attorney
 4    General.  However, the lien shall remain in effect during the
 5    pendency of any appeal or protest.
 6        (h)  A lien created under this Section is subordinate  to
 7    any prior lien of the financial institution or any prior lien
 8    holder  or  any  prior  right  of  set-off that the financial
 9    institution may have against the assets, or in the case of an
10    insurance company or benefit association only in the accounts
11    as defined in Section 7.255.
12        (i)  A financial institution has no obligation under this
13    Section to hold, encumber, or surrender the assets, or in the
14    case of an insurance company or benefit association only  the
15    accounts  as  defined  in  Section 7.255, until the financial
16    institution  has  been  properly  served  with  a   subpoena,
17    summons,   warrant,   court   or   administrative  order,  or
18    administrative lien and levy requiring that action.
19        Section 10.  The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is
20    amended by changing Section 10-65 as follows:
21        (5 ILCS 100/10-65) (from Ch. 127, par. 1010-65)
22        Sec. 10-65.  Licenses.
23        (a)  When any licensing is required by law to be preceded
24    by notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the provisions of
25    this Act concerning contested cases shall apply.
26        (b)  When a  licensee  has  made  timely  and  sufficient
27    application  for  the  renewal  of a license or a new license
28    with reference to any activity of a  continuing  nature,  the
29    existing  license  shall  continue  in  full force and effect
30    until the final agency decision on the application  has  been
31    made  unless  a  later  date is fixed by order of a reviewing
32    court.
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 1        (c)  An application for the renewal of a license or a new
 2    license shall include the applicant's social security number.
 3    Each agency shall require the  licensee  to  certify  on  the
 4    application form, under penalty of perjury, that he or she is
 5    not  more  than  30 days delinquent in complying with a child
 6    support order.  Every application shall state that failure to
 7    so certify shall result  in  disciplinary  action,  and  that
 8    making a false statement may subject the licensee to contempt
 9    of court.  The agency shall notify each applicant or licensee
10    who acknowledges a delinquency or who, contrary to his or her
11    certification,  is  found  to  be  delinquent  or  who  after
12    receiving  notice, fails to comply with a subpoena or warrant
13    relating to a paternity or a child support  proceeding,  that
14    the agency intends to take disciplinary action.  Accordingly,
15    the  agency  shall  provide  written  notice  of the facts or
16    conduct upon which  the  agency  will  rely  to  support  its
17    proposed  action and the applicant or licensee shall be given
18    an  opportunity  for  a  hearing  in  accordance   with   the
19    provisions  of  the  Act  concerning  contested  cases.   Any
20    delinquency  in  complying  with a child support order can be
21    remedied by arranging for payment of  past  due  and  current
22    support.   Any  failure  to comply with a subpoena or warrant
23    relating to a paternity or child support  proceeding  can  be
24    remedied  by  complying with the subpoena or warrant.  Upon a
25    final finding of delinquency or  failure  to  comply  with  a
26    subpoena  or  warrant,  the  agency shall suspend, revoke, or
27    refuse to issue or renew the license. In cases in  which  the
28    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
29    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
30    that date) has previously determined that an applicant  or  a
31    licensee  is  more  than 30 days delinquent in the payment of
32    child support and has subsequently certified the  delinquency
33    to the licensing agency, the licensing agency shall refuse to
34    issue  or  renew  or  shall  revoke  or suspend that person's
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 1    license based solely upon the  certification  of  delinquency
 2    made by the Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General.
 3     Further   process,   hearings,  or  redetermination  of  the
 4    delinquency by the licensing agency shall  not  be  required.
 5    The  licensing  agency  may  issue  or renew a license if the
 6    licensee has arranged for payment of past and  current  child
 7    support   obligations   in   a  manner  satisfactory  to  the
 8    Department of Public Aid (before the effective date  of  this
 9    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
10    that  date).    The  licensing  agency may impose conditions,
11    restrictions, or disciplinary action upon that license.
12        (d)  Except as provided  in  subsection  (c),  no  agency
13    shall  revoke, suspend, annul, withdraw, amend materially, or
14    refuse to  renew  any  valid  license  without  first  giving
15    written  notice  to the licensee of the facts or conduct upon
16    which the agency will rely to support its proposed action and
17    an  opportunity  for  a  hearing  in  accordance   with   the
18    provisions  of  this  Act concerning contested cases.  At the
19    hearing, the licensee shall have the right to show compliance
20    with all lawful requirements for the retention, continuation,
21    or renewal of the license.  If,  however,  the  agency  finds
22    that  the  public  interest,  safety, or welfare imperatively
23    requires emergency action, and if the agency  incorporates  a
24    finding  to that effect in its order, summary suspension of a
25    license may be ordered pending proceedings for revocation  or
26    other action.  Those proceedings shall be promptly instituted
27    and determined.
28        (e)  Any  application  for  renewal  of  a  license  that
29    contains  required  and relevant information, data, material,
30    or circumstances that were not contained  in  an  application
31    for  the  existing license shall be subject to the provisions
32    of subsection (a).
33    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
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 1        Section 15.  The  Intergovernmental  Cooperation  Act  is
 2    amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 3        (5 ILCS 220/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 743)
 4        Sec.   3.  Intergovernmental  agreements.  Any  power  or
 5    powers, privileges or authority exercised  or  which  may  be
 6    exercised  by  a public agency of this State may be exercised
 7    and enjoyed jointly with any  other  public  agency  of  this
 8    State  and  jointly with any public agency of any other state
 9    or of the United States to the extent that laws of such other
10    state or of the United States do not prohibit joint  exercise
11    or  enjoyment.  This  includes,  but  is  not limited to, (i)
12    arrangements  between   the   Illinois   Student   Assistance
13    Commission   and   agencies   in  other  states  which  issue
14    professional  licenses  and  (ii)  agreements   between   the
15    Illinois  Department of Public Aid (before the effective date
16    of this amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney  General  (on
17    and   after   that   date)   and   public  agencies  for  the
18    establishment and enforcement of child support orders and for
19    the exchange of information that may  be  necessary  for  the
20    enforcement of those child support orders.
21    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
22        Section  17.   The  New  Hire Reporting Act is amended by
23    changing Section 35 as follows:
24        (20 ILCS 1020/35)
25        Sec. 35.  Attorney General's  Department  of  Public  Aid
26    duties.   The Attorney General Department of Public Aid shall
27    establish a community advisory committee for oversight of the
28    implementation  process,  toll-free   telephone   lines   for
29    employers  with child support questions, an expedited hearing
30    process for non-custodial parents who contest  an  employer's
31    execution  of  an  order  for  withholding  and brochures and
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 1    public service announcements that inform the  general  public
 2    about  the  New  Hire Directory and how to utilize it, within
 3    the federal and State confidentiality  laws,  in  pursuit  of
 4    child support.
 5    (Source: P.A. 90-425, eff. 8-15-97.)
 6        Section 20.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
 7    amended by changing Section 60 as follows:
 8        (20 ILCS 2105/60) (from Ch. 127, par. 60)
 9        Sec.   60.   Powers   and   duties.   The  Department  of
10    Professional Regulation shall have, subject to the provisions
11    of this Act, the following powers and duties:
12        1.  To authorize examinations in English to ascertain the
13    qualifications and fitness  of  applicants  to  exercise  the
14    profession, trade, or occupation for which the examination is
15    held.
16        2.  To  prescribe  rules  and  regulations for a fair and
17    wholly impartial  method  of  examination  of  candidates  to
18    exercise the respective professions, trades, or occupations.
19        3.  To  pass  upon  the  qualifications of applicants for
20    licenses,   certificates,   and   authorities,   whether   by
21    examination, by reciprocity, or by endorsement.
22        4.  To prescribe rules and regulations defining, for  the
23    respective  professions,  trades, and occupations, what shall
24    constitute a school, college, or university, or department of
25    a university, or other institutions, reputable  and  in  good
26    standing  and to determine the reputability and good standing
27    of a school, college,  or  university,  or  department  of  a
28    university,  or  other  institution,  reputable  and  in good
29    standing by reference to a compliance  with  such  rules  and
30    regulations:   provided,   that   no   school,   college,  or
31    university,  or  department  of   a   university   or   other
32    institution  that  refuses admittance to applicants solely on
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 1    account of race, color, creed, sex, or national origin  shall
 2    be considered reputable and in good standing.
 3        5.  To   conduct   hearings  on  proceedings  to  revoke,
 4    suspend, refuse to renew, place on  probationary  status,  or
 5    take  other  disciplinary  action as may be authorized in any
 6    licensing Act administered by the Department with  regard  to
 7    licenses,  certificates, or authorities of persons exercising
 8    the respective professions, trades, or  occupations,  and  to
 9    revoke,  suspend,  refuse  to  renew,  place  on probationary
10    status,  or  take  other  disciplinary  action  as   may   be
11    authorized   in   any   licensing  Act  administered  by  the
12    Department with regard to  such  licenses,  certificates,  or
13    authorities.    The   Department   shall   issue   a  monthly
14    disciplinary report.  The Department shall deny  any  license
15    or  renewal  authorized  by  this  Act  to any person who has
16    defaulted on an educational loan or scholarship  provided  by
17    or  guaranteed  by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission
18    or any  governmental  agency  of  this  State;  however,  the
19    Department   may   issue   a   license   or  renewal  if  the
20    aforementioned  persons  have  established   a   satisfactory
21    repayment  record  as  determined  by  the  Illinois  Student
22    Assistance   Commission  or  other  appropriate  governmental
23    agency of this State.  Additionally, beginning June 1,  1996,
24    any  license  issued  by  the  Department may be suspended or
25    revoked if  the  Department,  after  the  opportunity  for  a
26    hearing  under  the appropriate licensing Act, finds that the
27    licensee has failed to make  satisfactory  repayment  to  the
28    Illinois  Student  Assistance  Commission for a delinquent or
29    defaulted  loan.  For   the   purposes   of   this   Section,
30    "satisfactory repayment record" shall be defined by rule. The
31    Department  shall  refuse  to issue or renew a license to, or
32    shall suspend or revoke a license of, any person  who,  after
33    receiving  notice, fails to comply with a subpoena or warrant
34    relating  to  a  paternity  or  child   support   proceeding.
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 1    However,  the  Department may issue a license or renewal upon
 2    compliance with the subpoena or warrant.
 3        The Department,  without  further  process  or  hearings,
 4    shall  revoke,  suspend,  or  deny  any  license  or  renewal
 5    authorized  by  this  Act to a person who is certified by the
 6    Illinois Department of Public Aid (before the effective  date
 7    of  this  amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on
 8    and after that date) as being more than 30 days delinquent in
 9    complying with a child support  order;  the  Department  may,
10    however,  issue  a  license  or  renewal  if  the  person has
11    established a satisfactory repayment record as determined  by
12    the  Illinois  Department of Public Aid (before the effective
13    date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney  General
14    (on  and after that date).  The Department may implement this
15    paragraph as added by Public Act  89-6  through  the  use  of
16    emergency  rules  in  accordance  with  Section  5-45  of the
17    Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.  For purposes  of  the
18    Illinois  Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of rules
19    to implement this paragraph shall be considered an  emergency
20    and necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.
21        6.  To  transfer  jurisdiction  of  any  realty under the
22    control of the Department to  any  other  Department  of  the
23    State Government, or to acquire or accept Federal lands, when
24    such  transfer,  acquisition or acceptance is advantageous to
25    the State and is approved in writing by the Governor.
26        7.  To  formulate  rules  and  regulations  as   may   be
27    necessary  for the enforcement of any act administered by the
28    Department.
29        8.  To exchange with the Illinois  Department  of  Public
30    Aid  (before  the  effective  date  of this amendatory Act of
31    1997) or the  Attorney  General  (on  and  after  that  date)
32    information  that  may  be  necessary  for the enforcement of
33    child support orders entered pursuant to the Attorney General
34    Act, the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage  and
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 1    Dissolution  of  Marriage  Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and
 2    Children Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal  Enforcement  of
 3    Support  Act,  the  Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or
 4    the Illinois  Parentage  Act  of  1984.  Notwithstanding  any
 5    provisions  in  this  Code to the contrary, the Department of
 6    Professional Regulation shall not be liable under any federal
 7    or State law to any person for any disclosure of  information
 8    to  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid or the Attorney
 9    General under this paragraph 8 or for any other action  taken
10    in  good  faith  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of this
11    paragraph 8.
12        9.  To require an applicant for any new  license  or  for
13    the  renewal  of  a  license  to  provide  his  or her social
14    security number on the license application form.
15        10.  9.   To  perform  such  other  duties  as   may   be
16    prescribed by law.
17        The  Department  may,  when  a  fee  is  payable  to  the
18    Department for a wall certificate of registration provided by
19    the  Department  of Central Management Services, require that
20    portion of the payment for printing and distribution costs be
21    made directly or through the Department, to the Department of
22    Central Management Services for  deposit  in  the  Paper  and
23    Printing  Revolving Fund, the remainder shall be deposited in
24    the General Revenue Fund.
25        For the purpose of securing and preparing  evidence,  and
26    for  the  purchase  of  controlled  substances,  professional
27    services, and equipment necessary for enforcement activities,
28    recoupment   of  investigative  costs  and  other  activities
29    directed at suppressing the misuse and  abuse  of  controlled
30    substances,  including those activities set forth in Sections
31    504 and 508 of the Illinois Controlled  Substances  Act,  the
32    Director  and agents appointed and authorized by the Director
33    may  expend  such  sums  from  the  Professional   Regulation
34    Evidence  Fund  as  the  Director  deems  necessary  from the
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 1    amounts appropriated for that purpose and such  sums  may  be
 2    advanced  to the agent when the Director deems such procedure
 3    to be in the  public  interest.  Sums  for  the  purchase  of
 4    controlled  substances,  professional services, and equipment
 5    necessary for enforcement activities and other activities  as
 6    set  forth in this Section shall be advanced to the agent who
 7    is to make such purchase  from  the  Professional  Regulation
 8    Evidence  Fund  on  vouchers  signed  by  the  Director.  The
 9    Director and such agents are authorized to  maintain  one  or
10    more  commercial  checking  accounts  with  any State banking
11    corporation or corporations organized under or subject to the
12    Illinois Banking Act for the deposit and withdrawal of moneys
13    to be used for  the  purposes  set  forth  in  this  Section;
14    provided,  that  no  check  may be written nor any withdrawal
15    made from any such account except upon the written signatures
16    of 2 persons designated by the Director to write such  checks
17    and  make  such  withdrawals.  Vouchers for such expenditures
18    must be signed by the  Director  and  all  such  expenditures
19    shall  be  audited  by  the  Director  and the audit shall be
20    submitted to the Department of  Central  Management  Services
21    for approval.
22        Whenever  the Department is authorized or required by law
23    to  consider  some  aspect   of   criminal   history   record
24    information  for  the  purpose  of carrying out its statutory
25    powers and responsibilities, then, upon request  and  payment
26    of fees in conformance with the requirements of subsection 22
27    of  Section 55a of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois,
28    the Department of State  Police  is  authorized  to  furnish,
29    pursuant   to   positive   identification,  such  information
30    contained in State files  as  is  necessary  to  fulfill  the
31    request.
32        The  provisions  of  this Section do not apply to private
33    business and vocational schools as defined by  Section  1  of
34    the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act.
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 1        Beginning  July  1,  1995, this Section does not apply to
 2    those professions, trades, and occupations licensed under the
 3    Real Estate License Act of 1983 nor  does  it  apply  to  any
 4    permits, certificates, or other authorizations to do business
 5    provided  for  in  the Land Sales Registration Act of 1989 or
 6    the Illinois Real Estate Time-Share Act.
 7    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 89-23, eff. 7-1-95;  89-237,
 8    eff. 8-4-95; 89-411, eff. 6-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18,
 9    eff. 7-1-97.)
10        Section 25.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
11    amended by changing Section 39b52 as follows:
12        (20 ILCS 2505/39b52)
13        Sec.   39b52.  Collection  of  past  due  support.   Upon
14    certification of past due  child  support  amounts  from  the
15    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
16    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
17    that  date),  the  Department  of  Revenue  may  collect  the
18    delinquency in any manner authorized for  the  collection  of
19    any  tax  administered  by  the  Department  of Revenue.  The
20    Department of Revenue shall notify the Department  of  Public
21    Aid  (before  the  effective  date  of this amendatory Act of
22    1997) or the Attorney General (on and after that  date)  when
23    the  delinquency  or  any portion of the delinquency has been
24    collected under this Section.  Any child support  delinquency
25    collected  by  the  Department  of  Revenue,  including those
26    amounts  that  result  in  overpayment  of  a  child  support
27    delinquency, shall be deposited in, or  transferred  to,  the
28    Child  Support  Enforcement  Trust  Fund.   The Department of
29    Revenue  may  implement  this  Section  through  the  use  of
30    emergency rules  in  accordance  with  Section  5-45  of  the
31    Illinois  Administrative  Procedure Act.  For purposes of the
32    Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of  rules
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 1    to  implement  this  Section shall be considered an emergency
 2    and necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 12-31-95; 90-491, eff. 1-1-98.)
 4        Section 30.  The Illinois Public Aid Code is  amended  by
 5    adding  Section  10-1.5 and changing Sections 10-21, 12-4.7c,
 6    12-4.31, 12-10.2, and 12-16 as follows:
 7        (305 ILCS 5/10-1.5 new)
 8        Sec. 10-1.5.  Transfer of powers to Attorney General.
 9        (a)  On the effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of
10    1997, all the rights, powers, and duties vested by law in the
11    Illinois  Department  or  the Illinois Department's Child and
12    Spouse Support Unit under this Article X are  transferred  to
13    the  Attorney  General  as  provided  in Sections 7.1 through
14    7.295 of the Attorney General Act.
15        (b)  The  Illinois  Department  shall  provide   to   the
16    Attorney General all information in the Illinois Department's
17    possession  concerning recipients that is necessary to enable
18    the Attorney General to  perform  the  duties  prescribed  in
19    Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.
20        (305 ILCS 5/10-21) (from Ch. 23, par. 10-21)
21        Sec.  10-21.  The Illinois Department may provide by rule
22    for the imposition of a one-time charge of 20% of the  amount
23    of   past-due   child  support  owed  on  July  1,  1988,  by
24    responsible relatives of persons receiving  support  services
25    under this Article X, which has accrued under a support order
26    entered  by  a  court  or  administrative body of this or any
27    other State, on behalf of resident or  non-resident  persons.
28    The  rule  shall provide for notice to, and an opportunity to
29    be heard by, the responsible relative affected and any  final
30    administrative  decision  rendered by the Department shall be
31    reviewed only under and in accordance with the Administrative
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 1    Review  Law.   No  action  to  impose  the  charge  shall  be
 2    commenced after June 30, 1993.   Action  under  this  Section
 3    shall  be subject to the limitations of Section 10-20 of this
 4    Code.
 5        On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
 6    1997, the Attorney General may  collect,  on  behalf  of  the
 7    Illinois  Department,  any  charge imposed in accordance with
 8    this Section.  Nothing in this amendatory Act of  1997  shall
 9    be  construed to affect the validity of any charge imposed in
10    accordance with this Section.
11    (Source: P.A. 85-114.)
12        (305 ILCS 5/12-4.7c)
13        Sec. 12-4.7c. Exchange of information after July 1, 1997.
14        (a)  The Department of Human Services shall exchange with
15    the Illinois Department of Public Aid (before  the  effective
16    date  of this amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General
17    (on and after that date) information that  may  be  necessary
18    for  the enforcement of child support orders entered pursuant
19    to Sections 10-10 and 10-11 of this Code or Sections 7.60 and
20    7.80 of the Attorney General Act or pursuant to the  Illinois
21    Marriage  and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
22    Spouse and  Children  Act,  the  Revised  Uniform  Reciprocal
23    Enforcement  of  Support  Act,  the Uniform Interstate Family
24    Support Act, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984.
25        (b)  Notwithstanding any provisions in this Code  to  the
26    contrary,  the  Department  of  Human  Services  shall not be
27    liable to any person for any disclosure of information to the
28    Illinois Department of Public Aid  or  the  Attorney  General
29    under  subsection  (a)  or for any other action taken in good
30    faith to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).
31    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
32        (305 ILCS 5/12-4.31)
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 1        Sec.  12-4.31.  Paternity  establishment  and   continued
 2    eligibility.
 3        (a)  In  this  Section,  "nonmarital child" means a child
 4    born to a woman who was not married to the child's father  at
 5    the time of the child's birth.
 6        (b)  The  Illinois  Department is authorized to conduct a
 7    paternity establishment and continued eligibility program  as
 8    a  demonstration  program  in  certain  geographic  areas  as
 9    defined  by  rule.  Upon completion of the demonstration, the
10    Illinois Department may expand the program statewide. If  the
11    Illinois  Department, as part of the demonstration program or
12    statewide program,  makes  administrative  determinations  of
13    paternity,  it  shall  do so according to rules adopted under
14    Section 7.210 of the Attorney General Act 10-17.7.
15        Under   the   paternity   establishment   and   continued
16    eligibility program, the custodial  parent  of  a  nonmarital
17    child  otherwise eligible for assistance under Article IV, V,
18    or VI of this Code shall receive assistance for the custodial
19    parent and that child  for  no  longer  than  6  full  months
20    unless:
21             (1)  the  paternity  of  the  child  is  established
22        before the beginning of or within the 6-month period;
23             (2)  the parent has fully cooperated with efforts to
24        establish the child's paternity, but, through no fault of
25        the parent, paternity has not been established;
26             (3)  the parent begins to receive assistance while a
27        court  action  to  establish  the  child's  paternity  is
28        pending,  and  the parent continues to cooperate with the
29        Illinois Department's efforts to establish paternity;
30             (4)  the parent attests under oath to fear of  abuse
31        by   the  putative  father  of  the  child  and  provides
32        documentation to substantiate that fear,  or  the  parent
33        claims  good  cause  for  failing  to  cooperate  in  the
34        establishment  of  paternity  due  to  rape by an unknown
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 1        assailant, and the person is  found  to  be  exempt  from
 2        cooperating to establish paternity under rules adopted by
 3        the Illinois Department;
 4             (5)  the  parent  has  not  yet  given  birth to the
 5        nonmarital child; or
 6             (6)  the   putative   father   of   the   child   is
 7        incarcerated  and  inaccessible  to   the   process   for
 8        establishing the child's paternity.
 9        (b)  The  6-month  period  referred  to in subsection (a)
10    shall begin on the date the first  full  monthly  payment  of
11    assistance  is  made, if the parent applied for assistance on
12    or after the effective date of this amendatory Act  of  1995.
13    That 6-month period shall begin on the effective date of this
14    amendatory Act of 1995 if the parent was receiving assistance
15    on  behalf  of  the nonmarital child on the effective date of
16    this amendatory Act of 1995.
17        (c)  The Illinois Department shall apply for all  waivers
18    of  federal  law  and regulations necessary to implement this
19    Section.  Implementation of this Section is conditioned  upon
20    the Illinois Department's receipt of those waivers.
21        (d)  The  Illinois  Department may implement this Section
22    through the use of emergency rules in accordance with Section
23    5-45 of  the  Illinois  Administrative  Procedure  Act.   For
24    purposes  of  the  Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the
25    adoption  of  rules  to  implement  this  Section  shall   be
26    considered   an   emergency  and  necessary  for  the  public
27    interest, safety, and welfare.
28    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95.)
29        (305 ILCS 5/12-10.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-10.2)
30        Sec. 12-10.2.  The Child Support Enforcement Trust  Fund,
31    to  be  held  by  the State Treasurer as ex-officio custodian
32    outside the State Treasury, pursuant  to  the  Child  Support
33    Enforcement  Program  established by Title IV-D of the Social
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 1    Security Act, shall  consist  of  (1)  all  support  payments
 2    received  by  the  Attorney General Illinois Department under
 3    Sections 7.50, 7.60, 7.160, and 7.230 of the Attorney General
 4    Act 10-8, 10-10, 10-16 and 10-19 that are  required  by  such
 5    Sections  to be paid into the Child Support Enforcement Trust
 6    Fund, and (2) all federal grants  received  by  the  Attorney
 7    General  Illinois  Department  funded  by  Title  IV-D of the
 8    Social Security Act,  except  those  federal  funds  received
 9    under   the   Title   IV-D   program   as  reimbursement  for
10    expenditures from the General Revenue Fund, and (3) incentive
11    payments received by the Attorney General Illinois Department
12    from other states or political subdivisions of  other  states
13    for  the  enforcement  and collection by the Attorney General
14    Department of an assigned child support obligation in  behalf
15    of such other states or their political subdivisions pursuant
16    to  the  provisions of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act,
17    and (4) incentive payments retained by the  Attorney  General
18    Illinois Department from the amounts which otherwise would be
19    paid  to  the  Federal  government  to  reimburse the Federal
20    government's share of the support collection for the Attorney
21    General's  Department's  enforcement  and  collection  of  an
22    assigned  support  obligation  on  behalf  of  the  State  of
23    Illinois pursuant to the provisions  of  Title  IV-D  of  the
24    Social Security Act, and (5) all fees charged by the Attorney
25    General Department for child support enforcement services, as
26    authorized  under  Title  IV-D of the Social Security Act and
27    Section 7.5 of the Attorney General Act 10-1  of  this  Code,
28    and  any  other  fees, costs, fines, recoveries, or penalties
29    provided for by State or federal  law  and  received  by  the
30    Attorney   General   Department   under   the  Child  Support
31    Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the  Social
32    Security Act, and (6) all amounts appropriated by the General
33    Assembly for deposit into the Fund.
34        Disbursements  from  this  Fund  shall  be  only  for the
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 1    following  purposes:  (1)  for  the  reimbursement  of  funds
 2    received by the Attorney General Illinois Department  through
 3    error  or  mistake,  and  (2) for payments to non-recipients,
 4    current recipients and former recipients of financial aid  of
 5    support  payments received on their behalf under Sections 7.1
 6    through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act Article X  of  this
 7    Code,  pursuant to the provisions of Title IV-D of the Social
 8    Security Act and rules promulgated by the Department, and (3)
 9    for payment of any administrative expenses, including payment
10    to the Health Insurance  Reserve  Fund  for  group  insurance
11    costs  at  the  rate  certified  by the Department of Central
12    Management Services, except those required to  be  paid  from
13    the  General Revenue Fund, including personal and contractual
14    services, incurred in performing the  Title  IV-D  activities
15    authorized  by  Sections  7.1  through  7.295 of the Attorney
16    General  Act  Article  X  of  this  Code,  and  (4)  for  the
17    reimbursement of the Public  Assistance  Emergency  Revolving
18    Fund  for  expenditures  made  from that Fund for payments to
19    former recipients of public aid for child support made to the
20    Attorney General Illinois Department when the  former  public
21    aid recipient is legally entitled to all or part of the child
22    support payments, pursuant to the provisions of Title IV-D of
23    the Social Security Act, and (5) for the payment of incentive
24    amounts  owed  to  other  states or political subdivisions of
25    other states that enforce and  collect  an  assigned  support
26    obligation on behalf of the State of Illinois pursuant to the
27    provisions  of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, and (6)
28    for the  payment  of  incentive  amounts  owed  to  political
29    subdivisions  of  the  State  of  Illinois  that  enforce and
30    collect an assigned support obligation on behalf of the State
31    pursuant to the  provisions  of  Title  IV-D  of  the  Social
32    Security  Act,  and (7) for payments of any amounts which are
33    reimbursable to the Federal government which are required  to
34    be  paid  by  State  warrant  by  either the State or Federal
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 1    government. Disbursements from this Fund shall be by warrants
 2    drawn by the State Comptroller on receipt  of  vouchers  duly
 3    executed  and  certified  by  the  Attorney  General Illinois
 4    Department  or  any  other  State  agency  that  receives  an
 5    appropriation from the Fund.
 6        The balance in  this  Fund  on  the  first  day  of  each
 7    calendar  quarter,  after  payment  therefrom  of any amounts
 8    reimbursable to the Federal government, and minus the  amount
 9    reasonably  anticipated  to  be  needed to make disbursements
10    during the quarter  authorized  by  this  Section,  shall  be
11    certified  by  the  Attorney General Director of the Illinois
12    Department and transferred by the State  Comptroller  to  the
13    General  Revenue Fund in the State Treasury within 30 days of
14    the first day of each calendar quarter.
15        The balance transferred to the General Revenue  Fund  for
16    any  fiscal  year  shall  be not less than ten percent of the
17    total support payments received, and retained pursuant to the
18    provisions of Title IV-D  of  the  Social  Security  Act,  on
19    behalf   of  persons  receiving  financial  assistance  under
20    Article IV of this Code which were required to  be  deposited
21    to  this  Fund  during that fiscal year.  The above described
22    payments received and retained shall include  the  State  and
23    Federal share of such payments.
24    (Source:  P.A.  89-21,  eff.  7-1-95;  89-499,  eff. 6-28-96;
25    90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
26        (305 ILCS 5/12-16) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-16)
27        Sec. 12-16. Public Aid  Claims  Enforcement  Division  of
28    Office   of   Attorney   General.    The  Public  Aid  Claims
29    Enforcement Division in the Office of the  Attorney  General,
30    established  pursuant  to  the  1949 Code, shall institute in
31    behalf of the State all court actions referred to it  by  the
32    Illinois Department of Public Aid, or the Department of Human
33    Services  (as  successor to the Illinois Department of Public
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 1    Aid) and the Attorney General under this Code and other  laws
 2    for  the  recovery of financial aid provided under the public
 3    aid programs, the enforcement of obligations of support,  and
 4    the enforcement of other claims, penalties and obligations.
 5        The Division shall be staffed with attorneys appointed by
 6    the  Attorney General as Special Assistant Attorneys' General
 7    whose special duty it  shall  be  to  execute  the  aforesaid
 8    duties.   The  Assistant Attorneys' General shall be assigned
 9    exclusively to such duties.  They may  engage  only  in  such
10    political  activities  as  are  not  prohibited  by the Hatch
11    Political Activity Act, Title 5, U.   S.   C.   A.,  Sections
12    118i et seq.
13        The  Attorney General may request the appropriate State's
14    Attorney of a county or staff of the Child and Spouse Support
15    Unit  established  under  Section  10-3.1  of  this  Code  to
16    institute any such action in behalf of the State or to assist
17    the Attorney General in the prosecution of actions instituted
18    by his Office.
19    (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
20        (305 ILCS 5/10-1 rep.)
21        (305 ILCS 5/10-2 rep.)
22        (305 ILCS 5/10-3 rep.)
23        (305 ILCS 5/10-3.1 rep.)
24        (305 ILCS 5/10-3.2 rep.)
25        (305 ILCS 5/10-3.3 rep.)
26        (305 ILCS 5/10-3.4 rep.)
27        (305 ILCS 5/10-4 rep.)
28        (305 ILCS 5/10-5 rep.)
29        (305 ILCS 5/10-6 rep.)
30        (305 ILCS 5/10-7 rep.)
31        (305 ILCS 5/10-8 rep.)
32        (305 ILCS 5/10-8.1 rep.)
33        (305 ILCS 5/10-9 rep.)
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 1        (305 ILCS 5/10-10 rep.)
 2        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.1 rep.)
 3        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.2 rep.)
 4        (305 ILCS 5/10-10.3 rep.)
 5        (305 ILCS 5/10-11 rep.)
 6        (305 ILCS 5/10-11.1 rep.)
 7        (305 ILCS 5/10-12 rep.)
 8        (305 ILCS 5/10-13 rep.)
 9        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.1 rep.)
10        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.2 rep.)
11        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.3 rep.)
12        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.4 rep.)
13        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.5 rep.)
14        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.6 rep.)
15        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.7 rep.)
16        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.8 rep.)
17        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.9 rep.)
18        (305 ILCS 5/10-13.10 rep.)
19        (305 ILCS 5/10-14 rep.)
20        (305 ILCS 5/10-15 rep.)
21        (305 ILCS 5/10-16 rep.)
22        (305 ILCS 5/10-16.2 rep.)
23        (305 ILCS 5/10-16.3 rep.)
24        (305 ILCS 5/10-17 rep.)
25        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.1 rep.)
26        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.2 rep.)
27        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.3 rep.)
28        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.4 rep.)
29        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.5 rep.)
30        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.6 rep.)
31        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.7 rep.)
32        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.8 rep.)
33        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.9 rep.)
34        (305 ILCS 5/10-17.11 rep.)
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 1        (305 ILCS 5/10-18 rep.)
 2        (305 ILCS 5/10-19 rep.)
 3        (305 ILCS 5/10-20 rep.)
 4        (305 ILCS 5/10-22 rep.)
 5        (305 ILCS 5/10-23 rep.)
 6        (305 ILCS 5/10-24 rep.)
 7        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.5 rep.)
 8        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.30 rep.)
 9        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.35 rep.)
10        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.40 rep.)
11        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.45 rep.)
12        (305 ILCS 5/10-24.50 rep.)
13        (305 ILCS 5/10-25 rep.)
14        (305 ILCS 5/10-25.5 rep.)
15        (305 ILCS 5/12-4.3 rep.)
16        Section 35.  The Illinois Public Aid Code is  amended  by
17    repealing Sections 10-1 through 10-20, Sections 10-22 through
18    10-25.5, and Section 12-4.3.
19        Section 40.  The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
20    Sections 12, 17, and 22 as follows:
21        (410 ILCS 535/12) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-12)
22        Sec. 12.  Live births; place of registration.
23        (1)  Each  live birth which occurs in this State shall be
24    registered with the local or subregistrar of the district  in
25    which  the birth occurred as provided in this Section, within
26    7 days after the birth. When  a  birth  occurs  on  a  moving
27    conveyance,  the city, village, township, or road district in
28    which the child is first removed from the conveyance shall be
29    considered the place of birth and a birth  certificate  shall
30    be  filed  in the registration district in which the place is
31    located.
32        (2)  When a birth occurs in an institution, the person in
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 1    charge of the institution or  his  designated  representative
 2    shall  obtain  and  record  all  the personal and statistical
 3    particulars relative to the parents of  the  child  that  are
 4    required  to  properly  complete  the live birth certificate;
 5    shall secure the required personal signatures on the hospital
 6    worksheet; shall prepare the certificate from this worksheet;
 7    and shall file the certificate with the local registrar.  The
 8    institution  shall  retain the hospital worksheet permanently
 9    or  as  otherwise  specified  by  rule.   The  physician   in
10    attendance  shall  verify  or  provide  the date of birth and
11    medical information required by the  certificate,  within  24
12    hours after the birth occurs.
13        (3)  When  a  birth  occurs  outside  an institution, the
14    certificate shall  be  prepared  and  filed  by  one  of  the
15    following in the indicated order of priority:
16             (a)  The  physician  in attendance at or immediately
17        after the birth, or in the absence of such a person,
18             (b)  Any  other   person   in   attendance   at   or
19        immediately  after the birth, or in the absence of such a
20        person,
21             (c)  The father, the mother, or in  the  absence  of
22        the father and the inability of the mother, the person in
23        charge of the premises where the birth occurred.
24        (4)  Unless otherwise provided in this Act, if the mother
25    was not married to the father of the child at either the time
26    of  conception  or  the time of birth, the name of the father
27    shall be entered on the child's birth certificate only if the
28    mother and the person to be named as the father  have  signed
29    an  acknowledgment of parentage in accordance with subsection
30    (5).
31        Unless otherwise provided in this Act, if the mother  was
32    married  at  the time of conception or birth and the presumed
33    father (that is, the mother's husband) is not the  biological
34    father  of the child, the name of the biological father shall
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 1    be entered on the  child's  birth  certificate  only  if,  in
 2    accordance with subsection (5), (i) the mother and the person
 3    to  be  named  as the father have signed an acknowledgment of
 4    parentage and (ii) the mother and presumed father have signed
 5    a denial of paternity.
 6        (5)  Upon the birth of a child to an unmarried woman,  or
 7    upon  the  birth of a child to a woman who was married at the
 8    time of conception or birth and  whose  husband  is  not  the
 9    biological  father  of the child, the institution immediately
10    before or after the at  the  time  of  birth  and  the  local
11    registrar  or  county  clerk  after  the  birth  shall do the
12    following:
13             (a)  Provide (i)  an  opportunity  for  the  child's
14        mother  and father to sign an acknowledgment of parentage
15        and (ii) if the presumed father  is  not  the  biological
16        father, an opportunity for the mother and presumed father
17        to   sign   a  denial  of  paternity.   The  signing  and
18        witnessing of the acknowledgment of parentage or, if  the
19        presumed  father  of  the  child  is  not  the biological
20        father, the acknowledgment of  parentage  and  denial  of
21        paternity  conclusively  establishes  a  parent and child
22        relationship in accordance with Sections 5 and 6  of  the
23        Illinois Parentage Act of 1984.
24             The  Illinois Department of Public Aid shall furnish
25        the acknowledgment of parentage and denial  of  paternity
26        form  to institutions, county clerks, and State and local
27        registrars' offices.  The form shall include instructions
28        to send the original signed and witnessed  acknowledgment
29        of  parentage  and  denial  of  paternity to the Illinois
30        Department of Public Aid.
31             (b)  Provide the following documents,  furnished  by
32        the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid, to the child's
33        mother, biological father, and (if the person presumed to
34        be the child's  father  is  not  the  biological  father)
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 1        presumed   father  for  their  review  at  the  time  the
 2        opportunity is provided to establish a parent  and  child
 3        relationship:
 4                  (i)  An  explanation  of  the  implications of,
 5             alternatives to,  legal  consequences  of,  and  the
 6             rights  and responsibilities that arise from signing
 7             an acknowledgment of parentage and, if necessary,  a
 8             denial of paternity, including an explanation of the
 9             parental   rights   and  responsibilities  of  child
10             support, visitation, custody,  retroactive  support,
11             health  insurance  coverage,  and  payment  of birth
12             expenses.
13                  (ii)  An explanation of the benefits of  having
14             a child's parentage established and the availability
15             of  parentage  establishment and support enforcement
16             services.
17                  (iii)  A request for an application  for  child
18             support  services  from  the  Illinois Department of
19             Public Aid.
20                  (iv)  Instructions concerning  the  opportunity
21             to  speak,  either  by  telephone or in person, with
22             staff of the Illinois Department of Public  Aid  who
23             are   trained  to  clarify  information  and  answer
24             questions about paternity establishment.
25                  (v)  Instructions for  completing  and  signing
26             the   acknowledgment  of  parentage  and  denial  of
27             paternity.
28             (c)  Provide an oral explanation  of  the  documents
29        and   instructions   set  forth  in  subdivision  (5)(b),
30        including  an  explanation  of   the   implications   of,
31        alternatives  to,  legal  consequences of, and the rights
32        and  responsibilities  that   arise   from   signing   an
33        acknowledgment  of  parentage and, if necessary, a denial
34        of paternity.
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 1        (6)  The institution, State or local registrar, or county
 2    clerk shall provide an opportunity for the child's father  or
 3    mother  to  sign  a  rescission of parentage. The signing and
 4    witnessing  of  the  rescission  of   parentage   voids   the
 5    acknowledgment  of parentage and nullifies the presumption of
 6    paternity if executed within  the  time  frame  contained  in
 7    Section 5 of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. The Illinois
 8    Department  of  Public  Aid  shall  furnish the rescission of
 9    parentage form to institutions, county clerks, and State  and
10    local   registrars'   offices.   The   form   shall   include
11    instructions  to  send  the  original  signed  and  witnessed
12    rescission  of parentage to the Illinois Department of Public
13    Aid.
14        (7)  An acknowledgment of paternity  signed  pursuant  to
15    Section  6  of  the  Illinois  Parentage  Act  of 1984 may be
16    challenged in court only on the basis of  fraud,  duress,  or
17    material  mistake  of fact, with the burden of proof upon the
18    challenging party.  Pending outcome of  a  challenge  to  the
19    acknowledgment  of  paternity,  the legal responsibilities of
20    the signatories shall remain in full force and effect, except
21    upon order of the court upon a showing of good cause.
22        (8)  When the process for acknowledgment of parentage  as
23    provided  for  under subsection (5) establishes the paternity
24    of a child whose certificate of birth is on file  in  another
25    state,  the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall forward a
26    copy of  the  acknowledgment  of  parentage,  the  denial  of
27    paternity, if applicable, and the rescission of parentage, if
28    applicable, to the birth record agency of the state where the
29    child's certificate of birth is on file.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-641, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97)
31        (410 ILCS 535/17) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-17)
32        Sec.  17.  (1) For a person born in this State, the State
33    Registrar of Vital Records shall establish a new  certificate
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 1    of birth when he receives any of the following:
 2             (a)  A   certificate  of  adoption  as  provided  in
 3        Section 16 or a certified copy of the order  of  adoption
 4        together  with  the information necessary to identify the
 5        original certificate of birth and to  establish  the  new
 6        certificate  of  birth;  except that a new certificate of
 7        birth shall not be established if  so  requested  by  the
 8        court ordering the adoption, the adoptive parents, or the
 9        adopted person.
10             (b)  A  certificate  of adoption or a certified copy
11        of the order of adoption entered in a court of  competent
12        jurisdiction  of  any  other  state  or country declaring
13        adopted a child born in the State of  Illinois,  together
14        with  the  information necessary to identify the original
15        certificate of birth and to establish the new certificate
16        of birth; except that a new certificate  of  birth  shall
17        not  be established if so requested by the court ordering
18        the  adoption,  the  adoptive  parents,  or  the  adopted
19        person.
20             (c)  A request that a new certificate be established
21        and such evidence as required by regulation proving  that
22        such  person  has been legitimatized, or that the circuit
23        court, the Attorney General, the Illinois  Department  of
24        Public  Aid,  or  a court or administrative agency of any
25        other state has  established  the  paternity  of  such  a
26        person  by  judicial  or  administrative  processes or by
27        voluntary acknowledgment, which  is  accompanied  by  the
28        social  security  numbers  of  all persons determined and
29        presumed to be the parents.
30             (d)  An  affidavit  by  a  physician  that  he   has
31        performed an operation on a person, and that by reason of
32        the  operation the sex designation on such person's birth
33        record should be changed.  The State Registrar  of  Vital
34        Records may make any investigation or require any further
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 1        information he deems necessary.
 2        Each  request  for  a  new  certificate of birth shall be
 3    accompanied by a fee of $15 and entitles the applicant to one
 4    certification or certified copy of the new  certificate.   If
 5    the request is for additional copies, it shall be accompanied
 6    by a fee of $2 for each additional certification or certified
 7    copy.
 8        (2)  When  a new certificate of birth is established, the
 9    actual place and date of birth shall be shown;  provided,  in
10    the  case  of  adoption  of  a  person  born in this State by
11    parents who were residents of this State at the time  of  the
12    birth  of the adopted person, the place of birth may be shown
13    as the place of residence of the adoptive parents at the time
14    of such person's birth, if specifically  requested  by  them,
15    and  any  new  certificate  of birth established prior to the
16    effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  may  be  corrected
17    accordingly  if  so  requested by the adoptive parents or the
18    adopted person when of legal age. The social security numbers
19    of the parents shall not be recorded on  the  certificate  of
20    birth.  The  social  security  numbers  may  only be used for
21    purposes allowed under federal law. The new certificate shall
22    be substituted for the original certificate of birth:
23             (a)  Thereafter, the original  certificate  and  the
24        evidence  of  adoption,  paternity,  legitimation, or sex
25        change  shall   not   be   subject   to   inspection   or
26        certification  except  upon order of the circuit court or
27        as provided by regulation.
28             (b)  Upon  receipt  of  notice   of   annulment   of
29        adoption,  the  original  certificate  of  birth shall be
30        restored  to  its  place  in  the  files,  and  the   new
31        certificate   and   evidence  shall  not  be  subject  to
32        inspection or certification  except  upon  order  of  the
33        circuit court.
34        (3)  If no certificate of birth is on file for the person
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 1    for  whom  a  new certificate is to be established under this
 2    Section, a delayed record of birth shall be  filed  with  the
 3    State Registrar of Vital Records as provided in Section 14 or
 4    Section  15  of this Act before a new certificate of birth is
 5    established, except that when the date and place of birth and
 6    parentage have been established in the adoption  proceedings,
 7    a delayed record shall not be required.
 8        (4)  When  a  new  certificate of birth is established by
 9    the State Registrar of  Vital  Records,  all  copies  of  the
10    original certificate of birth in the custody of any custodian
11    of permanent local records in this State shall be transmitted
12    to  the  State  Registrar  of  Vital Records as directed, and
13    shall be sealed from inspection.
14        (5)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
15    prohibit the amendment of a birth certificate  in  accordance
16    with subsection (6) of Section 22.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 89-257, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626,
18    eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
19        (410 ILCS 535/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-22)
20        Sec.  22.   (1)  A certificate or record filed under this
21    Act may be amended only in accordance with this Act and  such
22    regulations  as  the  Department  may  adopt  to  protect the
23    integrity of vital records. An application for  an  amendment
24    shall  be  accompanied  by  a  fee  of $15 which includes the
25    provision of one  certification  or  certified  copy  of  the
26    amended  birth  record.  If  the  request  is  for additional
27    copies, it shall be accompanied by  a  fee  of  $2  for  each
28    additional  certification or certified copy.  Such amendments
29    may only be made in connection with the original certificates
30    and may not be made on copies of  such  certificates  without
31    the  approval  of  the State Registrar of Vital Records.  The
32    provisions of this Section shall  also  be  applicable  to  a
33    certificate  or record filed under any former Act relating to
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 1    the registration of births,  stillbirths,  and  deaths.   Any
 2    original  certificate  or  record filed with the county clerk
 3    prior to January 1, 1916, may be amended by the county  clerk
 4    under  the  same  provisions  of this Section, or regulations
 5    adopted pursuant thereto, as apply to the State Registrar  of
 6    Vital Records governing amendments to certificates or records
 7    filed with the Department subsequent to December 31, 1915.
 8        (2)  A  certificate  that  is  amended under this Section
 9    after its filing shall have the  correction  entered  on  its
10    face; shall clearly indicate that an amendment has been made;
11    and  shall  show  the  date  of  the  amendment.   A  summary
12    description  of  the  evidence  submitted  in  support  of an
13    amendment shall be permanently  retained  by  the  Department
14    either  as  an  original record or in microphotographic form.
15    Documents from which such summary descriptions are  made  may
16    be  returned  by  the  Department  to  the  person or persons
17    submitting  them.   The   Department   shall   prescribe   by
18    regulation  the conditions under which, within one year after
19    the date of occurrence, additions or minor corrections may be
20    made without the certificate being considered amended.
21        (3)  An  amendment  to  a  delayed   birth   registration
22    established  under  the  provisions of Section 15 of this Act
23    may be made by the State Registrar of Vital Records only upon
24    the basis  of  an  order  from  the  court  which  originally
25    established the facts of birth.
26        (4)  Upon  receipt  of  a certified copy of a court order
27    changing the name or names of a person born  in  this  State,
28    the  official  custodian shall amend the original certificate
29    of birth to reflect the changes.
30        (5)  (Blank).
31        (6)  When the paternity of a child with a certificate  of
32    birth  on file in this State is established through voluntary
33    acknowledgment, by the Attorney General, or  by  a  court  or
34    administrative  agency  under  the  laws of this or any other
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 1    state, the State Registrar of Vital Records shall  amend  the
 2    original record accordingly, upon notification from a circuit
 3    court  of  this  State, the Attorney General, or the Illinois
 4    Department of Public Aid, or upon receipt of a certified copy
 5    of   another   state's   acknowledgment   or   judicial    or
 6    administrative determination of paternity.
 7        (7)   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if
 8    an adopted person applies in accordance with this Section for
 9    the  amendment  of  the name on his or her birth certificate,
10    the State Registrar shall amend the birth certificate if  the
11    person  provides  documentation  or other evidence supporting
12    the application  that  would  be  deemed  sufficient  if  the
13    documentation or evidence had been submitted in support of an
14    application by a person who has not been adopted.
15        (8)  When  paternity has been established after the birth
16    in accordance with Section 12, the State Registrar  of  Vital
17    Records shall amend the original record accordingly.
18        (9)  Upon  application  by the parents not later than one
19    year after an acknowledgment of parentage under this Act, the
20    Attorney General Act, or the Illinois Public Aid  Code  or  a
21    judicial  or administrative determination or establishment of
22    paternity or parentage, the State Registrar of Vital  Records
23    shall  amend  the  child's name on the child's certificate of
24    birth in accordance with the application.  No more  than  one
25    application  to  change a child's name may be made under this
26    subsection (9).
27        (10)  When  a  certificate  is  amended  by   the   State
28    Registrar  of  Vital  Records  under  this Section, the State
29    Registrar of Vital  Records  shall  furnish  a  copy  of  the
30    summary  description  to the custodian of any permanent local
31    records and such records shall be amended accordingly.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 89-257, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626,
33    eff. 8-9-96; 89-641, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
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 1        Section 41.  The Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by
 2    changing Section 20-105 as follows:
 3        (515 ILCS 5/20-105) (from Ch. 56, par. 20-105)
 4        Sec. 20-105.  License revocation; refusal to issue.
 5        (a)  Whenever a license or permit is issued to any person
 6    under this Code  and  its  holder  is  found  guilty  of  any
 7    misrepresentation  in obtaining the license or permit or of a
 8    violation of any of the provisions of  this  Code,  including
 9    administrative rules, the license or permit may be revoked by
10    the  Department  and  the  Department may refuse to issue any
11    permit or license to that person and may suspend  the  person
12    from engaging in the activity requiring the permit or license
13    for  a  period  of  time  not to exceed 5 years following the
14    revocation.   Department  revocation   procedure   shall   be
15    established by administrative rule.
16        (a-5)  Whenever  a license or permit is issued under this
17    Code to any person who owes overdue  child  support  or  who,
18    after  receiving  notice,  fails to comply with a subpoena or
19    warrant relating to a paternity or child support  proceeding,
20    the  license  or  permit may be revoked by the Department and
21    the Department may refuse to issue a  license  or  permit  to
22    that  person.  A failure to comply with a subpoena or warrant
23    can be remedied by complying with the  subpoena  or  warrant.
24    Department  revocation  procedures  shall  be  established by
25    rule.
26        (b)  Whenever any  person  who  has  not  been  issued  a
27    license  or  a  permit  under  the provisions of this Code is
28    found guilty of a violation of the provisions of  this  Code,
29    including  administrative rules, the Department may refuse to
30    issue any permit or license to that person, and suspend  that
31    person  from engaging in the activity requiring the permit or
32    license for a period of time not to exceed 5 years.
33        (c)  Any person who knowingly or  intentionally  violates
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 1    any  of the provisions of this Code, including administrative
 2    rules, during the 5 years following the revocation of his  or
 3    her license or permit under subsection (a) or during the time
 4    he  is  suspended  under subsection (b), shall be guilty of a
 5    Class A misdemeanor as provided in Section 20-35.
 6    (Source: P.A. 87-798; 87-833; 87-895.)
 7        Section 42.  The Wildlife Code  is  amended  by  changing
 8    Section 3.36 as follows:
 9        (520 ILCS 5/3.36) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.36)
10        Sec.  3.36.   (a)  Whenever a license or permit is issued
11    to any person under this Act, and the holder thereof is found
12    guilty of any misrepresentation in obtaining such license  or
13    permit  or  of  a  violation of any of the provisions of this
14    Act, including administrative rules, his  license  or  permit
15    may  be  revoked  by  the  Department, and the Department may
16    refuse to issue any permit or license to such person and  may
17    suspend  the  person  from engaging in the activity requiring
18    the permit or license for a period of time not  to  exceed  5
19    years following such revocation.
20        Department  revocation procedures shall be established by
21    Administrative rule.
22        (a-5)  Whenever a license or permit is issued under  this
23    Code  to  any  person  who owes overdue child support or who,
24    after receiving notice, fails to comply with  a  subpoena  or
25    warrant  relating to a paternity or child support proceeding,
26    the license or permit may be revoked by  the  Department  and
27    the  Department  may  refuse  to issue a license or permit to
28    that person.  A failure to comply with a subpoena or  warrant
29    can  be  remedied  by complying with the subpoena or warrant.
30    Department revocation  procedures  shall  be  established  by
31    rule.
32        (b)  Whenever  any  person  who  has  not  been  issued a
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 1    license or a permit under the  provisions  of  this  Code  is
 2    found  guilty  of a violation of the provisions of this Code,
 3    including administrative rules, the Department may refuse  to
 4    issue  any permit or license to that person, and suspend that
 5    person from engaging in the activity requiring the permit  or
 6    license for a period of time not to exceed 5 years.
 7        (c)  Any  person  who knowingly or intentionally violates
 8    any of the provisions of this Act,  including  administrative
 9    rules,  during  such  period  when  his  license or permit is
10    revoked or denied by virtue of this  Section  or  during  the
11    time he is suspended under subsection (b), shall be guilty of
12    a Class A misdemeanor.
13        (d)  Licenses  and  permits authorized to be issued under
14    the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  prepared  by   the
15    Department   and  be  in  such  form  as  prescribed  by  the
16    Department. The information required on each license shall be
17    completed thereon by the issuing agent or  his  sub-agent  at
18    the  time of issuance and each license shall be signed by the
19    licensee, or initialed by the designated purchaser  and  then
20    signed   immediately   upon  receipt  by  the  licensee,  and
21    countersigned by the issuing agent or his  sub-agent  at  the
22    time  of issuance. All such licenses shall be supplied by the
23    Department, subject to such  rules  and  regulations  as  the
24    Department  may prescribe. Any license not properly prepared,
25    obtained and signed as required by this Act shall be void.
26    (Source: P.A. 90-225, eff. 7-25-97.)
27        Section 44.  The Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
28    changing Sections 7-701, 7-702, 7-702.1, 7-703, 7-704, 7-705,
29    7-706, 7-707, and 7-708 as follows:
30        (625 ILCS 5/7-701)
31        Sec.  7-701.  Findings and purpose.  The General Assembly
32    finds that the timely receipt of adequate  financial  support
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 1    has the effect of reducing poverty and State expenditures for
 2    welfare  dependency  among  children,  and  that  the  timely
 3    payment  of  adequate  child  support  demonstrates financial
 4    responsibility.  Further, the General Assembly finds that the
 5    State has a compelling  interest  in  ensuring  that  drivers
 6    within   the   State  demonstrate  financial  responsibility,
 7    including family financial responsibility, in order to safely
 8    own and operate a motor vehicle.  To this end, the  Secretary
 9    of  State  is  authorized  to  establish  a system to suspend
10    driver's licenses for failure to comply with court orders  of
11    support  and with subpoenas or warrants in paternity or child
12    support proceedings.
13    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
14        (625 ILCS 5/7-702)
15        Sec. 7-702.  Suspension of driver's license  for  failure
16    to  pay  child  support  or  comply with certain subpoenas or
17    warrants.  The Secretary of State shall suspend the  driver's
18    license  issued to an obligor upon receiving an authenticated
19    report provided for in Section 7-703, that the person (i)  is
20    90  days  or  more  delinquent in court ordered child support
21    payments or has been adjudicated  in  arrears  in  an  amount
22    equal  to  90  days obligation or more, and has been found in
23    contempt by the court for failure to pay the support or  (ii)
24    has  failed  to  comply  with  a  subpoena  or  warrant  in a
25    paternity or child support proceeding and has been  found  in
26    contempt by the court for failure to comply.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
28        (625 ILCS 5/7-702.1)
29        Sec.  7-702.1.  Family  financial  responsibility driving
30    permits.  Following the entry of an order that an obligor has
31    been found in contempt by the court for failure to pay  court
32    ordered  child  support payments or to comply with a subpoena
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 1    or warrant in a paternity or child  support  proceeding,  the
 2    court  may enter an order directing the Secretary of State to
 3    issue a family financial responsibility  driving  permit  for
 4    the  purpose  of  providing  the  obligor  the  privilege  of
 5    operating a motor vehicle between the obligor's residence and
 6    place  of  employment,  or  within  the  scope  of employment
 7    related   duties;   or   for   the   purpose   of   providing
 8    transportation for the  obligor  or  a  household  member  to
 9    receive  alcohol  treatment, other drug treatment, or medical
10    care.  The court may enter an order directing the issuance of
11    a permit only if the obligor has proven to  the  satisfaction
12    of  the court that no alternative means of transportation are
13    reasonably available  for  the  above  stated  purposes.   No
14    permit  shall be issued to a person under the age of 16 years
15    who possesses an instruction permit.
16        Upon entry of an order granting the issuance of a  permit
17    to  an  obligor,  the  court shall report this finding to the
18    Secretary of State on a form  prescribed  by  the  Secretary.
19    This form shall state whether the permit has been granted for
20    employment  or  medical  purposes  and  the specific days and
21    hours for which limited driving privileges have been granted.
22        The family financial responsibility driving permit  shall
23    be  subject  to  cancellation,  invalidation, suspension, and
24    revocation by the Secretary of State in the same  manner  and
25    for  the same reasons as a driver's license may be cancelled,
26    invalidated, suspended, or revoked.
27        The Secretary of State shall, upon receipt of a certified
28    court order from the court of jurisdiction,  issue  a  family
29    financial  responsibility  driving  permit. In order for this
30    permit to be issued, an individual's driving privileges  must
31    be  valid  except  for  the  family  financial responsibility
32    suspension. This permit shall be valid  only  for  employment
33    and  medical  purposes  as set forth above.  The permit shall
34    state the days and hours for which limited driving privileges
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 1    have been granted.
 2        Any submitted court order that contains insufficient data
 3    or fails to comply with any provision of this Code shall  not
 4    be  used  for  issuance  of  the  permit  or  entered  to the
 5    individual's driving record but  shall  be  returned  to  the
 6    court  of  jurisdiction  indicating  why the permit cannot be
 7    issued at that time.  The Secretary of State shall also  send
 8    notice  of  the  return  of the court order to the individual
 9    requesting the permit.
10    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96; 90-369, eff. 1-1-98.)
11        (625 ILCS 5/7-703)
12        Sec.  7-703.   Courts  to  report  non-payment  of  court
13    ordered support and noncompliance with certain subpoenas  and
14    warrants.   The  clerk  of  the circuit court, as provided in
15    subsection (b) of Section 505 of the  Illinois  Marriage  and
16    Dissolution  of  Marriage Act or as provided in Section 15 of
17    the Illinois Parentage Act of  1984,  shall  forward  to  the
18    Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary, an
19    authenticated   document   certifying   the   court's   order
20    suspending  the  driving  privileges of the obligor.  For any
21    such certification, the clerk of the court shall  charge  the
22    obligor a fee of $5 as provided in the Clerks of Courts Act.
23    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
24        (625 ILCS 5/7-704)
25        Sec. 7-704.  Suspension to continue until compliance with
26    court order of support or with subpoena or warrant.
27        (a)  The suspension of a driver's license shall remain in
28    effect  unless  and  until  the  Secretary  of State receives
29    authenticated  documentation  (i)  that  the  obligor  is  in
30    compliance with a court order of support or  that  the  order
31    has  been  stayed  by a subsequent order of the court or (ii)
32    that the obligor  is  in  compliance  with  the  subpoena  or
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 1    warrant  in  a  paternity  or  child support proceeding. Full
 2    driving privileges shall not be issued by  the  Secretary  of
 3    State until notification of compliance has been received from
 4    the  court.   The  circuit  clerks shall report the obligor's
 5    compliance with a court order of support or with  a  subpoena
 6    or warrant to the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by
 7    the Secretary.
 8        (b)  Whenever,  after  one  suspension of an individual's
 9    driver's license for failure to pay  child  support,  another
10    order  of  non-payment is entered against the obligor and the
11    person fails to come into compliance with the court order  of
12    support,  then the Secretary shall again suspend the driver's
13    license of the individual and that suspension  shall  not  be
14    removed  unless  the  obligor  is in full compliance with the
15    court order of support and  has  made  full  payment  on  all
16    arrearages.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
18        (625 ILCS 5/7-705)
19        Sec.  7-705.   Notice.   The Secretary of State, prior to
20    suspending a driver's license under this Chapter, shall serve
21    written notice upon an obligor that the individual's driver's
22    license will be suspended in 60 days from  the  date  on  the
23    notice  unless  the  obligor  satisfies  the  court  order of
24    support or  complies  with  the  subpoena  or  warrant  in  a
25    paternity  or  child support proceeding and the circuit clerk
26    notifies the Secretary of State of this compliance.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
28        (625 ILCS 5/7-706)
29        Sec.  7-706.   Administrative  hearing.   A  driver   may
30    contest  this  driver's  license  sanction  by  requesting an
31    administrative hearing in accordance with  Section  2-118  of
32    this Code.  If a written request for this hearing is received
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 1    prior to the effective date of the suspension, the suspension
 2    shall  be stayed.  If a stay of the suspension is granted, it
 3    shall remain in effect until a hearing decision  is  entered.
 4    At the conclusion of this hearing, the Secretary of State may
 5    rescind  or  impose the driver's license suspension.   If the
 6    suspension is upheld, it shall become effective 10 days  from
 7    the date the hearing decision is entered.  If the decision is
 8    to   rescind   the   suspension,  no  suspension  of  driving
 9    privileges shall be entered.  The scope of this hearing shall
10    be limited to the following issues:
11        (a)  Whether the driver is the  obligor  covered  by  the
12    court  order of support or the person to whom the subpoena or
13    warrant is directed.
14        (b)  Whether the authenticated document of a court  order
15    of  support indicates that the obligor (i) is 90 days or more
16    delinquent or has been adjudicated in arrears  in  an  amount
17    equal  to  90  days  obligation or more and has been found in
18    contempt of court for failure to pay child  support  or  (ii)
19    has  failed  to  comply  with  a  subpoena  or  warrant  in a
20    paternity or child support proceeding and has been  found  in
21    contempt by the court for failure to comply.
22        (c)  Whether  a superseding authenticated document of any
23    court order of support or of compliance with  a  subpoena  or
24    warrant has been entered.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
26        (625 ILCS 5/7-707)
27        Sec.  7-707.  Payment  of  reinstatement  fee.   Upon  an
28    obligor's  obligors  receiving  notice  from the Secretary of
29    State that the suspension  of  driving  privileges  has  been
30    terminated  based  upon  receipt  of  notification  from  the
31    circuit  clerk  of  the  obligor's obligors compliance with a
32    court  order of support or a subpoena or warrant, the obligor
33    shall pay a $30 reinstatement fee to the Secretary  of  State
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 1    as set forth in Section 6-118 of this Code.  The fee shall be
 2    deposited  into the Family Responsibility Fund. In accordance
 3    with subsection (e)  of  Section  6-115  of  this  Code,  the
 4    Secretary  of  State  may  decline  to process a renewal of a
 5    driver's license of a person who has not paid this fee.
 6    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
 7        (625 ILCS 5/7-708)
 8        Sec. 7-708.  Rules.  The Secretary of  State,  using  the
 9    authority  to license motor vehicle operators, may adopt such
10    rules as may be necessary to establish  standards,  policies,
11    and  procedures  for  the suspension of driver's licenses for
12    non-compliance with a  court  order  of  support  or  with  a
13    subpoena   or   warrant  in  a  paternity  or  child  support
14    proceeding.
15    (Source: P.A. 89-92, eff. 7-1-96.)
16        Section 45.  The Attorney  Act  is  amended  by  changing
17    Section 1 as follows:
18        (705 ILCS 205/1) (from Ch. 13, par. 1)
19        Sec.  1.   No person shall be permitted to practice as an
20    attorney or counselor at law within this State without having
21    previously obtained a  license  for  that  purpose  from  the
22    Supreme Court of this State.
23        No  person  shall  receive  any  compensation directly or
24    indirectly for any legal  services  other  than  a  regularly
25    licensed attorney.
26        A license, as provided for herein, constitutes the person
27    receiving   the  same  an  attorney  and  counselor  at  law,
28    according to the law and customs thereof, for and during  his
29    good  behavior  in  the practice and authorizes him to demand
30    and receive fees for any services which he may render  as  an
31    attorney and counselor at law in this State.  No person shall
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 1    be  granted  a  license or renewal authorized by this Act who
 2    has defaulted  on  an  educational  loan  guaranteed  by  the
 3    Illinois Student Assistance Commission; however, a license or
 4    renewal  may be issued to the aforementioned persons who have
 5    established a satisfactory repayment record as determined  by
 6    the  Illinois  Student Assistance Commission. No person shall
 7    be granted a license or renewal authorized by this Act who is
 8    more than 30  days  delinquent  in  complying  with  a  child
 9    support  order;  a license or renewal may be issued, however,
10    if the person has established a satisfactory repayment record
11    as determined (i) by the Illinois Department  of  Public  Aid
12    for  cases  being  enforced  under  Article X of the Illinois
13    Public Aid Code or by the Attorney General  for  cases  being
14    enforced  under  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney
15    General Act or (ii) in all other cases by order of  court  or
16    by   written  agreement  between  the  custodial  parent  and
17    non-custodial parent. No person shall be  refused  a  license
18    under this Act on account of sex.
19        Any  person  practicing,  charging  or receiving fees for
20    legal  services  within  this  State,  either   directly   or
21    indirectly,  without  being  licensed  to  practice as herein
22    required, is  guilty  of  contempt  of  court  and  shall  be
23    punished  accordingly,  upon  complaint  being  filed  in any
24    Circuit Court of  this  State.   Such  proceedings  shall  be
25    conducted  in the Courts of the respective counties where the
26    alleged contempt has been committed in the same manner as  in
27    cases  of  indirect  contempt and with the right of review by
28    the parties thereto.
29        The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to  other
30    remedies  permitted  by  law  and  shall  not be construed to
31    deprive courts of this  State  of  their  inherent  right  to
32    punish  for contempt or to restrain the unauthorized practice
33    of law.
34        Nothing in  this  Act  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit
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 1    representation  of a party by a person who is not an attorney
 2    in a proceeding before the  Illinois  State  Labor  Relations
 3    Board  or  the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board under the
 4    Illinois Public Labor Relations  Act,  as  now  or  hereafter
 5    amended, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board under
 6    the  Illinois  Educational  Labor  Relations  Act,  as now or
 7    hereafter amended, the State Civil  Service  Commission,  the
 8    local  Civil  Service  Commissions,  or  the University Civil
 9    Service Merit Board, to the extent allowed pursuant to  rules
10    and regulations promulgated by those Boards and Commissions.
11    (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95.)
12        Section  50.  The  Illinois  Marriage  and Dissolution of
13    Marriage Act is amended  by  changing  Sections  505,  505.1,
14    505.2, 507, 510, 516, 705, 706.1, 709, and 712 as follows:
15        (750 ILCS 5/505) (from Ch. 40, par. 505)
16        Sec. 505.  Child support; contempt; penalties.
17        (a)  In  a  proceeding for dissolution of marriage, legal
18    separation,  declaration  of  invalidity   of   marriage,   a
19    proceeding  for  child  support  following dissolution of the
20    marriage by a court which lacked personal  jurisdiction  over
21    the  absent  spouse,  a  proceeding  for  modification  of  a
22    previous  order  for  child support under Section 510 of this
23    Act, or any proceeding authorized under Section 501 or 601 of
24    this Act, the court may order either or both parents owing  a
25    duty  of  support to a child of the marriage to pay an amount
26    reasonable and necessary for his support, without  regard  to
27    marital  misconduct.  The  duty  of  support  owed to a minor
28    child includes the obligation to provide for  the  reasonable
29    and  necessary physical, mental and emotional health needs of
30    the child.
31             (1)  The Court shall determine the minimum amount of
32        support by using the following guidelines:
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 1          Number of Children       Percent of Supporting Party's
 2              Net Income
 3                  1                             20%
 4                  2                             25%
 5                  3                             32%
 6                  4                             40%
 7                  5                             45%
 8              6 or more                         50%
 9             (2)  The above guidelines shall be applied  in  each
10        case unless the court makes a finding that application of
11        the  guidelines would be inappropriate, after considering
12        the best interests of the  child  in  light  of  evidence
13        including but not limited to one or more of the following
14        relevant factors:
15                  (a)  the  financial  resources and needs of the
16             child;
17                  (b)  the financial resources and needs  of  the
18             custodial parent;
19                  (c)  the  standard  of  living  the child would
20             have enjoyed had the marriage not been dissolved;
21                  (d)  the physical and  emotional  condition  of
22             the child, and his educational needs; and
23                  (e)  the  financial  resources and needs of the
24             non-custodial parent.
25             If the  court  deviates  from  the  guidelines,  the
26        court's  finding  shall  state the amount of support that
27        would  have  been  required  under  the  guidelines,   if
28        determinable.   The  court  shall  include  the reason or
29        reasons for the variance from the guidelines.
30             (3)  "Net income" is defined as  the  total  of  all
31        income from all sources, minus the following deductions:
32                  (a)  Federal  income  tax  (properly calculated
33             withholding or estimated payments);
34                  (b)  State  income  tax  (properly   calculated
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 1             withholding or estimated payments);
 2                  (c)  Social Security (FICA payments);
 3                  (d)  Mandatory     retirement     contributions
 4             required by law or as a condition of employment;
 5                  (e)  Union dues;
 6                  (f)  Dependent          and          individual
 7             health/hospitalization insurance premiums;
 8                  (g)  Prior    obligations    of    support   or
 9             maintenance actually paid pursuant to a court order;
10                  (h)  Expenditures for repayment of  debts  that
11             represent  reasonable and necessary expenses for the
12             production of income, medical expenditures necessary
13             to preserve life or health, reasonable  expenditures
14             for  the  benefit of the child and the other parent,
15             exclusive of gifts.   The  court  shall  reduce  net
16             income  in determining the minimum amount of support
17             to be ordered only for the period that such payments
18             are  due  and  shall  enter  an   order   containing
19             provisions  for its self-executing modification upon
20             termination of such payment period.
21             (4)  In cases where the  court  order  provides  for
22        health/hospitalization  insurance  coverage  pursuant  to
23        Section   505.2  of  this  Act,  the  premiums  for  that
24        insurance, or that portion of the premiums for which  the
25        supporting  party is responsible in the case of insurance
26        provided through  an  employer's  health  insurance  plan
27        where  the employer pays a portion of the premiums, shall
28        be subtracted from net income in determining the  minimum
29        amount of support to be ordered.
30             (4.5)  In  a  proceeding for child support following
31        dissolution of  the  marriage  by  a  court  that  lacked
32        personal  jurisdiction  over  the  absent  spouse, and in
33        which the court is requiring payment of support  for  the
34        period  before  the  date an order for current support is
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 1        entered, there  is  a  rebuttable  presumption  that  the
 2        supporting  party's  net  income for the prior period was
 3        the same as his or her net income at the time  the  order
 4        for current support is entered.
 5             (5)  If  the net income cannot be determined because
 6        of default or any other reason,  the  court  shall  order
 7        support   in  an  amount  considered  reasonable  in  the
 8        particular case.  The final  order  in  all  cases  shall
 9        state the support level in dollar amounts.
10        (b)  Failure  of either parent to comply with an order to
11    pay support or a subpoena or warrant in a paternity or  child
12    support  proceeding  shall be punishable as in other cases of
13    contempt.  In addition to other penalties provided by law the
14    Court may, after finding the parent guilty of contempt, order
15    that the parent be:
16             (1)  placed on probation  with  such  conditions  of
17        probation as the Court deems advisable;
18             (2)  sentenced to periodic imprisonment for a period
19        not to exceed 6 months; provided, however, that the Court
20        may  permit the parent to be released for periods of time
21        during the day or night to:
22                  (A)  work; or
23                  (B)  conduct a business or other  self-employed
24             occupation.
25        The  Court  may  further  order  any  part  or all of the
26    earnings  of  a  parent  during  a   sentence   of   periodic
27    imprisonment paid to the Clerk of the Circuit Court or to the
28    parent  having  custody  or to the guardian having custody of
29    the minor children of the sentenced parent for the support of
30    said minor children until further order of the Court.
31        If there is a unity of interest and ownership  sufficient
32    to  render  no  financial  separation between a non-custodial
33    parent and another person or persons or business entity,  the
34    court  may  pierce the ownership veil of the person, persons,
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 1    or business entity to discover assets  of  the  non-custodial
 2    parent  held  in  the  name of that person, those persons, or
 3    that  business  entity.    The  following  circumstances  are
 4    sufficient to authorize a court to  order  discovery  of  the
 5    assets of a person, persons, or business entity and to compel
 6    the  application  of  any discovered assets toward payment on
 7    the judgment for support:
 8             (1)  the  non-custodial  parent  and   the   person,
 9        persons, or business entity maintain records together.
10             (2)  the   non-custodial   parent  and  the  person,
11        persons, or business entity  fail  to  maintain  an  arms
12        length relationship between themselves with regard to any
13        assets.
14             (3)  the  non-custodial  parent  transfers assets to
15        the person, persons, or business entity with  the  intent
16        to perpetrate a fraud on the custodial parent.
17        With  respect to assets which are real property, no order
18    entered under this paragraph shall affect the rights of  bona
19    fide  purchasers,  mortgagees,  judgment  creditors, or other
20    lien holders who  acquire their  interests  in  the  property
21    prior  to  the  time  a notice of lis pendens pursuant to the
22    Code of Civil Procedure or a copy of the order is  placed  of
23    record  in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county
24    in which the real property is located.
25        The court may also order in cases where the parent is  90
26    days  or  more  delinquent in payment of support, or has been
27    adjudicated  in  arrears  in  an  amount  equal  to  90  days
28    obligation or more, or has failed to comply with  a  subpoena
29    or  warrant  in  a paternity or child support proceeding that
30    the parent's Illinois driving privileges be  suspended  until
31    the  court  determines  that the parent is in compliance with
32    the order of support or subpoena or warrant.  The  court  may
33    also  order  that  the  parent  be  issued a family financial
34    responsibility  driving  permit  that  would  allow   limited
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 1    driving  privileges  for  employment  and medical purposes in
 2    accordance with Section 7-702.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 3    The clerk of  the  circuit  court  shall  certify  the  order
 4    suspending  the  driving privileges of the parent or granting
 5    the issuance of a  family  financial  responsibility  driving
 6    permit  to  the Secretary of State on forms prescribed by the
 7    Secretary. Upon receipt of the authenticated  documents,  the
 8    Secretary   of  State  shall  suspend  the  parent's  driving
 9    privileges until further order of the  court  and  shall,  if
10    ordered  by  the  court, subject to the provisions of Section
11    7-702.1  of  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code,  issue  a   family
12    financial responsibility driving permit to the parent.
13        (c)  A  one-time  charge  of  20%  is  imposable upon the
14    amount of past-due child support owed on July 1,  1988  which
15    has  accrued under a support order entered by the court.  The
16    charge shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions  of
17    Section  10-21  of  the Illinois Public Aid Code and shall be
18    enforced by  the  court  upon  petition.  On  and  after  the
19    effective  date  of this amendatory Act of 1997, the Attorney
20    General may collect, on behalf of the Illinois Department  of
21    Public  Aid,  any  charge  imposed  in  accordance  with this
22    subsection.  Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1997 shall  be
23    construed  to  affect  the  validity of any charge imposed in
24    accordance with this subsection.
25        (d)  Any new or existing support  order  entered  by  the
26    court  under  this  Section shall be deemed to be a series of
27    judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay   support
28    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
29    payment or installment of support and each such  judgment  to
30    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
31    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
32    Each  such  judgment  shall  have  the full force, effect and
33    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
34    ability to be enforced. A lien arises  by  operation  of  law
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 1    against  the  real  and personal property of the noncustodial
 2    parent for each installment of overdue support  owed  by  the
 3    noncustodial parent.
 4        (e)  When  child  support is to be paid through the clerk
 5    of the court in a county of 1,000,000  inhabitants  or  less,
 6    the  order  shall  direct the obligor to pay to the clerk, in
 7    addition to the child support payments, all fees  imposed  by
 8    the  county  board  under  paragraph (3) of subsection (u) of
 9    Section 27.1 of the Clerks of Courts  Act.   Unless  paid  in
10    cash  or pursuant to an order for withholding, the payment of
11    the fee shall be by a separate instrument  from  the  support
12    payment and shall be made to the order of the Clerk.
13        (f)  All  orders  for  support, when entered or modified,
14    shall include a provision requiring the obligor to notify the
15    court and, in cases in which a party is receiving  child  and
16    spouse  services  under  Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
17    Code or under Section  7.1  through  7.295  of  the  Attorney
18    General  Act,  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid (before
19    the effective date of this amendatory Act  of  1997)  or  the
20    Attorney General (on and after that date), within 7 days, (i)
21    of  the  name and address of any new employer of the obligor,
22    (ii) whether the  obligor  has  access  to  health  insurance
23    coverage through the employer or other group coverage and, if
24    so,  the  policy  name  and  number  and the names of persons
25    covered under the policy, and (iii) of any new residential or
26    mailing address or  telephone  number  of  the  non-custodial
27    parent.  In any subsequent action to enforce a support order,
28    upon  a  sufficient  showing  that a diligent effort has been
29    made to ascertain the location of the  non-custodial  parent,
30    service  of  process  or provision of notice necessary in the
31    case  may  be  made  at  the  last  known  address   of   the
32    non-custodial  parent in any manner expressly provided by the
33    Code of Civil Procedure or this Act, which service  shall  be
34    sufficient for purposes of due process.
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 1        (g)  An  order  for support shall include a date on which
 2    the current support obligation terminates.   The  termination
 3    date  shall  be  no  earlier than the date on which the child
 4    covered by the order will attain the age of  majority  or  is
 5    otherwise emancipated. The order for support shall state that
 6    the termination date does not apply to any arrearage that may
 7    remain unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this subsection shall
 8    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
 9    (Source:  P.A.  89-88,  eff.  6-30-95;  89-92,  eff.  7-1-96;
10    89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-476, eff. 1-1-98;
11    revised 10-7-97.)
12        (750 ILCS 5/505.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 505.1)
13        Sec.   505.1.    (a)  Whenever  it  is  determined  in  a
14    proceeding  to  establish  or  enforce  a  child  support  or
15    maintenance obligation  that  the  person  owing  a  duty  of
16    support is unemployed, the court may order the person to seek
17    employment and report periodically to the court with a diary,
18    listing  or  other  memorandum  of  his  or  her  efforts  in
19    accordance with such order. Additionally, the court may order
20    the   unemployed  person  to  report  to  the  Department  of
21    Employment Security  for  job  search  services  or  to  make
22    application  with  the  local  Jobs  Training Partnership Act
23    provider for participation in job search,  training  or  work
24    programs  and  where  the  duty of support is owed to a child
25    receiving support services under Article X  of  the  Illinois
26    Public Aid Code or Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney
27    General  Act,  as amended, the court may order the unemployed
28    person to report to the Illinois Department of Human Services
29    Public Aid for participation in job search, training or  work
30    programs established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the
31    Illinois Public Aid that Code.
32        (b)  Whenever   it  is  determined  that  a  person  owes
33    past-due support for a child or for a child  and  the  parent
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 1    with  whom  the  child  is living, and the child is receiving
 2    assistance under the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  the  court
 3    shall  order  at  the  request  of the Illinois Department of
 4    Public Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory  Act
 5    of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after that date):
 6             (1)  that  the  person  pay  the past-due support in
 7        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
 8             (2)  if  the  person  owing  past-due   support   is
 9        unemployed,  is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is not
10        incapacitated, that the person participate  in  such  job
11        search,  training,  or  work  programs  established under
12        Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the  Illinois  Public  Aid
13        Code as the court deems appropriate.
14    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
15        (750 ILCS 5/505.2) (from Ch. 40, par. 505.2)
16        Sec. 505.2. Health insurance.
17        (a)  Definitions.  As used in this Section:
18             (1)  "Obligee" means the individual to whom the duty
19        of   support   is   owed   or   the   individual's  legal
20        representative.
21             (2)  "Obligor" means the individual who owes a  duty
22        of support pursuant to an order for support.
23             (3)  "Public  office"  means any elected official or
24        any  State  or  local  agency  which  is  or  may  become
25        responsible by law for enforcement of, or which is or may
26        become authorized  to  enforce,  an  order  for  support,
27        including, but not limited to:  the Attorney General, the
28        Illinois   Department   of   Public   Aid,  the  Illinois
29        Department of Human Services, the Illinois Department  of
30        Children  and  Family  Services,  and the various State's
31        Attorneys, Clerks of the Circuit Court and supervisors of
32        general assistance.
33        (b)  Order.
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 1             (1)  Whenever the  court  establishes,  modifies  or
 2        enforces  an order for child support or for child support
 3        and maintenance the court shall include in  the  order  a
 4        provision for the health care coverage of the child which
 5        shall,  upon  request  of  the  obligee or Public Office,
 6        require that any child covered by the order be named as a
 7        beneficiary  of  any  health  insurance  plan   that   is
 8        available  to  the  obligor  through an employer or labor
 9        union or trade union.  If the court  finds  that  such  a
10        plan is not available to the obligor, or that the plan is
11        not  accessible  to  the  obligee,  the  court  may, upon
12        request of  the  obligee  or  Public  Office,  order  the
13        obligor  to  name  the  child  covered  by the order as a
14        beneficiary  of  any  health  insurance  plan   that   is
15        available  to  the  obligor  on  a  group  basis, or as a
16        beneficiary of an independent health insurance plan to be
17        obtained by the obligor, after considering the  following
18        factors:
19                  (A)  the medical needs of the child;
20                  (B)  the  availability  of a plan to meet those
21             needs; and
22                  (C)  the cost of such a plan to the obligor.
23             (2)  If the employer or labor union or  trade  union
24        offers  more  than  one plan, the order shall require the
25        obligor to name the child as a beneficiary of the plan in
26        which the obligor is enrolled.
27             (2.5)  If the obligor changes employment and the new
28        employer provides a health  insurance  plan,  the  Public
29        Office  shall  transfer  notice  of  the order to the new
30        employer.  The notice shall operate to enroll  the  child
31        in  the  health  insurance  plan that is available to the
32        obligor unless the obligor contests the notice.
33             (3)  Nothing in this Section shall be  construed  to
34        limit the authority of the court to establish or modify a
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 1        support   order  to  provide  for  payment  of  expenses,
 2        including deductibles, copayments and  any  other  health
 3        expenses, which are in addition to expenses covered by an
 4        insurance  plan of which a child is ordered to be named a
 5        beneficiary pursuant to this Section.
 6        (c)  Implementation and enforcement.
 7             (1)  When the court  order  requires  that  a  minor
 8        child  be  named  as  a beneficiary of a health insurance
 9        plan,  other  than  a  health  insurance  plan  available
10        through an employer or labor union or  trade  union,  the
11        obligor  shall  provide  written  proof to the obligee or
12        Public  Office  that  the  required  insurance  has  been
13        obtained, or that application for insurability  has  been
14        made,  within  30  days  of receiving notice of the court
15        order.  Unless the obligor was present in court when  the
16        order  was  issued,  notice  of  the order shall be given
17        pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rules. If  an  obligor
18        fails  to  provide  the required proof, he may be held in
19        contempt of court.
20             (2)  When the court requires that a minor  child  be
21        named  as  a  beneficiary  of  a  health  insurance  plan
22        available  through  an  employer  or labor union or trade
23        union,  the  court's  order  shall  be   implemented   in
24        accordance  with  Section  706.1,  as  now  or  hereafter
25        amended.
26        (d)  Failure to maintain insurance.  The dollar amount of
27    the  premiums  for  court-ordered  health  insurance, or that
28    portion of the premiums for which the obligor is  responsible
29    in  the  case  of  insurance  provided  under  a group health
30    insurance plan through an employer or labor  union  or  trade
31    union where the employer or labor union or trade union pays a
32    portion  of  the  premiums, shall be considered an additional
33    child support obligation owed by the obligor.   Whenever  the
34    obligor   fails  to  provide  or  maintain  health  insurance
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 1    pursuant to an order for support, the obligor shall be liable
 2    to the obligee for the dollar amount of  the  premiums  which
 3    were  not  paid,  and  shall  also  be liable for all medical
 4    expenses incurred by the minor child which  would  have  been
 5    paid  or reimbursed by the health insurance which the obligor
 6    was ordered to provide or maintain. In addition, the  obligee
 7    may  petition  the  court to modify the order based solely on
 8    the obligor's failure to pay the premiums  for  court-ordered
 9    health insurance.
10        (e)  Authorization  for  payment.  The  signature  of the
11    obligee is a valid authorization to the insurer to process  a
12    claim for payment under the insurance plan to the provider of
13    the health care services or to the obligee.
14        (f)  Disclosure  of  information.  The obligor's employer
15    or labor union or trade union shall disclose to  the  obligee
16    or  Public  Office,  upon request, information concerning any
17    dependent coverage plans which would be made available  to  a
18    new  employee  or  labor  union member or trade union member.
19    The employer or labor union or  trade  union  shall  disclose
20    such  information  whether  or  not a court order for medical
21    support has been entered.
22        (g)  Employer obligations.  If a parent is required by an
23    order for support to provide coverage for  a  child's  health
24    care expenses and if that coverage is available to the parent
25    through  an  employer  who  does  business in this State, the
26    employer must do all of the following upon receipt of a  copy
27    of the order of support or order for withholding:
28             (1)  The  employer shall, upon the parent's request,
29        permit the parent to include in that coverage a child who
30        is otherwise eligible for that coverage,  without  regard
31        to   any   enrollment   season  restrictions  that  might
32        otherwise be applicable as  to  the  time  period  within
33        which the child may be added to that coverage.
34             (2)  If  the parent has health care coverage through
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 1        the employer but fails  to  apply  for  coverage  of  the
 2        child,  the  employer  shall  include  the  child  in the
 3        parent's coverage upon application by the  child's  other
 4        parent or the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
 5             (3)  The  employer  may not eliminate any child from
 6        the parent's health care coverage unless the employee  is
 7        no  longer employed by the employer and no longer covered
 8        under the employer's group  health  plan  or  unless  the
 9        employer  is  provided with satisfactory written evidence
10        of either of the following:
11                  (A)  The order for  support  is  no  longer  in
12             effect.
13                  (B)  The  child  is  or  will  be included in a
14             comparable health care plan obtained by  the  parent
15             under such order that is currently in effect or will
16             take  effect  no  later  than  the  date  the  prior
17             coverage is terminated.
18             The  employer  may eliminate a child from a parent's
19        health care plan obtained by the parent under such  order
20        if  the  employer  has  eliminated  dependent health care
21        coverage for all of its employees.
22    (Source: P.A.  89-183,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;
23    89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
24        (750 ILCS 5/507) (from Ch. 40, par. 507)
25        Sec. 507.  Payment of maintenance or support to court.
26        (a)  In actions instituted  under  this  Act,  the  court
27    shall  order that maintenance and support payments be made to
28    the clerk of court as trustee for remittance  to  the  person
29    entitled  to receive the payments.  However, the court in its
30    discretion  may  direct  otherwise  where  circumstances   so
31    warrant.
32        In  cases  in which a party is receiving child and spouse
33    support services under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid
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 1    Code  or  under  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney
 2    General Act and the order for  support  provides  that  child
 3    support  payments  be  made  to  the  obligee,  the  Illinois
 4    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
 5    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 6    that  date)  may  provide  notice  to  the  obligor  and  the
 7    obligor's payor, when income withholding is in  effect  under
 8    Section 706.1 of this Act, to make all payments after receipt
 9    of the Department's or Attorney General's notice to the clerk
10    of  the  court  until further notice by the Department or the
11    Attorney General or order of the court.  Copies of the notice
12    shall be provided to the obligee and the clerk.  The  clerk's
13    copy  shall contain a proof of service on the obligor and the
14    obligor's payor, where applicable.  The clerk shall file  the
15    clerk's  copy  of the notice in the court file. The notice to
16    the obligor and the payor, if  applicable,  may  be  sent  by
17    ordinary  mail,  certified  mail,  return  receipt requested,
18    facsimile transmission, or other electronic process,  or  may
19    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
20    by  law  for  service  of a summons.  An obligor who fails to
21    comply with a notice provided under this paragraph is  guilty
22    of a Class B misdemeanor.  A payor who fails to comply with a
23    notice  provided under this paragraph is guilty of a business
24    offense and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
25        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
26    transmission from  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid
27    (before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or
28    the Attorney General (on and after that date) to the clerk of
29    the  court  that  a  person who is receiving support payments
30    under this Section is  receiving  services  under  the  Child
31    Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of the
32    Social  Security  Act,  any  support  payments   subsequently
33    received  by  the  clerk of the court shall be transmitted in
34    accordance with the instructions of the  Illinois  Department
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 1    of Public Aid or the Attorney General until the Department or
 2    the  Attorney  General gives notice to the clerk of the court
 3    to cease the transmittal. After  providing  the  notification
 4    authorized  under  this paragraph, the Illinois Department of
 5    Public Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory  Act
 6    of  1997)  or  the  Attorney General (on and after that date)
 7    shall be entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of  any  further
 8    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
 9    copy  of  the Illinois Department of Public Aid's or Attorney
10    General's notification in the court file.  The failure of the
11    clerk to file a copy of the notification in  the  court  file
12    shall  not, however, affect the Illinois Department of Public
13    Aid's or  Attorney  General's  right  to  receive  notice  of
14    further proceedings.
15        (b)  The  clerk  of  court shall maintain records listing
16    the amount of payments, the date payments are required to  be
17    made  and  the names and addresses of the parties affected by
18    the order. For those cases in which support is payable to the
19    clerk of the circuit court for transmittal  to  the  Illinois
20    Department  of  Public  Aid  by  order  of  the court or upon
21    notification of the Illinois Department of Public Aid or  the
22    Attorney  General,  and the Illinois Department of Public Aid
23    or the  Attorney  General  collects  support  by  assignment,
24    offset,  withholding, deduction or other process permitted by
25    law, the Illinois Department or the Attorney General, as  the
26    case may be, shall notify the clerk of the date and amount of
27    such  collection.  Upon  notification, the clerk shall record
28    the collection on the payment record for the case.
29        (c)  The parties affected by the order shall  inform  the
30    clerk of court of any change of address or of other condition
31    that may affect the administration of the order.
32        (d)  The  provisions  of  this Section shall not apply to
33    cases that come under the provisions of Sections 709  through
34    712.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
 2        (750 ILCS 5/510) (from Ch. 40, par. 510)
 3        Sec. 510.  Modification and termination of provisions for
 4    maintenance,  support,  educational  expenses,  and  property
 5    disposition.
 6        (a)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in paragraph (f) of
 7    Section 502 and in subsection  (d),  clause  (3)  of  Section
 8    505.2,  the provisions of any judgment respecting maintenance
 9    or support may be modified only as to  installments  accruing
10    subsequent to due notice by the moving party of the filing of
11    the motion for modification and, with respect to maintenance,
12    only upon a showing of a substantial change in circumstances.
13    An order for child support may be modified as follows:
14             (1)  upon  a  showing  of  a  substantial  change in
15        circumstances; and
16             (2)  without the necessity of showing a  substantial
17        change in circumstances, as follows:
18                  (A)  upon  a  showing of an inconsistency of at
19             least 20%, but no less than $10 per  month,  between
20             the  amount  of the existing order and the amount of
21             child support that results from application  of  the
22             guidelines  specified  in  Section  505  of this Act
23             unless the inconsistency is due to the fact that the
24             amount  of  the  existing  order  resulted  from   a
25             deviation  from  the  guideline amount and there has
26             not been a change in the circumstances that resulted
27             in that deviation; or
28                  (B)  Upon a showing of a need  to  provide  for
29             the  health  care needs of the child under the order
30             through health insurance  or  other  means.   In  no
31             event  shall  the  eligibility  for  or  receipt  of
32             medical assistance be considered to meet the need to
33             provide for the child's health care needs.
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 1        The provisions of subparagraph (a)(2)(A) shall apply only
 2    in  cases  in  which  a  party  is receiving child and spouse
 3    support services from the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid
 4    under  Article  X of the Illinois Public Aid Code or from the
 5    Attorney General under Sections  7.1  through  7.295  of  the
 6    Attorney  General  Act, and only when at least 36 months have
 7    elapsed since the order for child support was entered or last
 8    modified.
 9        (b)  The provisions as to property disposition may not be
10    revoked or modified, unless the court finds the existence  of
11    conditions that justify the reopening of a judgment under the
12    laws of this State.
13        (c)  Unless  otherwise agreed by the parties in a written
14    agreement set forth in the judgment or otherwise approved  by
15    the  court,  the  obligation  to  pay  future  maintenance is
16    terminated upon the death of either party, or the  remarriage
17    of the party receiving maintenance, or if the party receiving
18    maintenance  cohabits  with  another  person  on  a resident,
19    continuing conjugal basis.
20        (d)  Unless otherwise  agreed  in  writing  or  expressly
21    provided in a judgment, provisions for the support of a child
22    are  terminated  by  emancipation  of  the  child,  except as
23    otherwise provided herein, but not by the death of  a  parent
24    obligated  to  support  or  educate  the  child.  An existing
25    obligation to pay for support  or  educational  expenses,  or
26    both,  is  not  terminated  by the death of a parent.  When a
27    parent obligated to pay support or educational  expenses,  or
28    both, dies, the amount of support or educational expenses, or
29    both,  may  be  enforced,  modified, revoked or commuted to a
30    lump  sum  payment,  as  equity   may   require,   and   that
31    determination  may  be  provided  for  at  the  time  of  the
32    dissolution of the marriage or thereafter.
33        (e)  The  right  to  petition  for support or educational
34    expenses,  or  both,  under  Sections  505  and  513  is  not
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 1    extinguished by the death of a parent.  Upon a petition filed
 2    before or after a parent's death, the court may award sums of
 3    money out of the decedent's estate for the child's support or
 4    educational expenses, or both, as equity  may  require.   The
 5    time  within which a claim may be filed against the estate of
 6    a decedent under Sections 505 and 513 and subsection (d)  and
 7    this  subsection  shall  be governed by the provisions of the
 8    Probate Act of 1975, as a barrable, noncontingent claim.
 9    (Source: P.A. 87-714; 88-42; 88-307; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
10        (750 ILCS 5/516) (from Ch. 40, par. 516)
11        Sec. 516.  Public Aid Collection fee.
12        (a)  In all cases instituted before the effective date of
13    this amendatory Act of 1997 by  the  Illinois  Department  of
14    Public  Aid  on  behalf  of a child or spouse, other than one
15    receiving a grant of financial aid under Article  IV  of  The
16    Illinois  Public Aid Code, on whose behalf an application has
17    been made and approved for support services  as  provided  by
18    Section   10-1  of  that  Code,  the  court  shall  impose  a
19    collection fee on the individual who owes a child  or  spouse
20    support obligation in an amount equal to 10% of the amount so
21    owed  as  long as such collection is required by federal law,
22    which fee shall be in addition  to  the  support  obligation.
23    The  imposition  of  such  fee  shall  be  in accordance with
24    provisions of Title IV, Part D, of the  Social  Security  Act
25    and  regulations  duly promulgated thereunder.  The fee shall
26    be payable to the clerk of the circuit court for  transmittal
27    to  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid and shall continue
28    until support services are  terminated  by  that  Department,
29    except as otherwise provided in this subsection.
30        If  a collection fee is imposed under this subsection and
31    if, on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
32    1997,  the  child  or  spouse receives support services under
33    Section 7.5 of the Attorney General Act,  the  fee  shall  be
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 1    payable  to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to
 2    the  Attorney  General  and  shall  continue  until   support
 3    services  are terminated by the Attorney General.  Nothing in
 4    this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be construed to affect  the
 5    validity of any collection fee imposed in accordance with the
 6    first paragraph of this subsection.
 7        (b)  In  all  cases  instituted on or after the effective
 8    date of this amendatory Act of 1997 by the  Attorney  General
 9    on  behalf  of  a child or spouse, other than one receiving a
10    grant of financial aid  under  Article  IV  of  the  Illinois
11    Public Aid Code, on whose behalf an application has been made
12    and  approved for support services as provided by Section 7.5
13    of the  Attorney  General  Act,  the  court  shall  impose  a
14    collection  fee  on the individual who owes a child or spouse
15    support obligation in an amount equal to 10% of the amount so
16    owed as long as such collection is required by  federal  law,
17    which  fee  shall  be  in addition to the support obligation.
18    The imposition of  such  fee  shall  be  in  accordance  with
19    provisions  of  Title  IV, Part D, of the Social Security Act
20    and regulations duly promulgated thereunder.  The  fee  shall
21    be  payable to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal
22    to the Attorney General  and  shall  continue  until  support
23    services are terminated by the Attorney General.
24    (Source: P.A. 82-979.)
25        (750 ILCS 5/705) (from Ch. 40, par. 705)
26        Sec.  705.   Support  payments;  receiving and disbursing
27    agents.
28        (1)  The provisions of this Section shall  apply,  except
29    as provided in Sections 709 through 712.
30        (2)  In  a  dissolution  of  marriage  action  filed in a
31    county of less than 3 million population in which an order or
32    judgment for child support is entered, and  in  supplementary
33    proceedings  in  any such county to enforce or vary the terms
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 1    of such order or  judgment  arising  out  of  an  action  for
 2    dissolution  of  marriage  filed  in  such county, the court,
 3    except as it otherwise orders, under subsection (4)  of  this
 4    Section,  may  direct  that child support payments be made to
 5    the clerk of the court.
 6        (3)  In a dissolution of marriage  action  filed  in  any
 7    county  of  3 million or more population in which an order or
 8    judgment for child support is entered, and  in  supplementary
 9    proceedings  in  any such county to enforce or vary the terms
10    of such order or  judgment  arising  out  of  an  action  for
11    dissolution  of  marriage  filed  in  such county, the court,
12    except as it otherwise orders under subsection  (4)  of  this
13    Section,  may  direct  that  child  support  payments be made
14    either to the clerk of the court  or  to  the  Court  Service
15    Division  of  the County Department of Public Aid.  After the
16    effective date of this Act, the court, except as it otherwise
17    orders under subsection (4) of this Section, may direct  that
18    child  support  payments  be  made either to the clerk of the
19    court, the Attorney General,  or to the  Illinois  Department
20    of Public Aid.
21        (4)  In a dissolution of marriage action or supplementary
22    proceedings  involving maintenance or child support payments,
23    or both, to persons who  are  recipients  of  aid  under  the
24    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code, the court shall direct that such
25    payments  be  made  to  (a)  the  Attorney  General  Illinois
26    Department of Public Aid if the persons are recipients  under
27    Articles  III,  IV,  or  V  of  the  Code,  or  (b) the local
28    governmental unit responsible for their support if  they  are
29    recipients   under  Articles  VI  or  VII  of  the  Code.  In
30    accordance with federal law  and  regulations,  the  Illinois
31    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General may continue
32    to  collect  current  maintenance  payments  or child support
33    payments, or both,  after  those  persons  cease  to  receive
34    public  assistance  and  until  termination of services under
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 1    Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code or  under  Sections
 2    7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.  The Illinois
 3    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney  General  shall  pay
 4    the net amount collected to those persons after deducting any
 5    costs incurred in making the collection or any collection fee
 6    from the amount of any recovery made.  The order shall permit
 7    the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid,  or  the Attorney
 8    General, or the local governmental unit, as the case may  be,
 9    to  direct  that  payments  be  made  directly  to the former
10    spouse, the children, or both, or to some person or agency in
11    their behalf, upon removal of the former spouse  or  children
12    from  the  public  aid  rolls or upon termination of services
13    under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or  under
14    Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act; and
15    upon  such  direction,  the  Illinois  Department,   Attorney
16    General,  or  local  governmental unit, as the case requires,
17    shall give notice of such action to the court in  writing  or
18    by electronic transmission.
19        (5)  All  clerks  of  the  court  and  the  Court Service
20    Division of a County Department of Public Aid and, after  the
21    effective  date  of  this  Act,  all clerks of the court, the
22    Attorney General, and the Illinois Department of Public  Aid,
23    receiving  child  support  payments under subsections (2) and
24    (3) of this Section shall disburse the payments to the person
25    or persons entitled thereto under the terms of the  order  or
26    judgment.   They shall establish and maintain current records
27    of all moneys received and  disbursed  and  of  defaults  and
28    delinquencies  in  required  payments. The court, by order or
29    rule, shall make provision for  the  carrying  out  of  these
30    duties.
31        In  cases  in which a party is receiving child and spouse
32    support services under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid
33    Code  or  under  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney
34    General Act and the order for  support  provides  that  child
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 1    support  payments  be  made  to  the  obligee,  the  Illinois
 2    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
 3    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 4    that  date)  may  provide  notice  to  the  obligor  and  the
 5    obligor's payor, when income withholding is in  effect  under
 6    Section 706.1 of this Act, to make all payments after receipt
 7    of the Department's or Attorney General's notice to the clerk
 8    of  the  court  until further notice by the Department or the
 9    Attorney General or order of the court.  Copies of the notice
10    shall be provided to the obligee and the clerk.  The  clerk's
11    copy  shall contain a proof of service on the obligor and the
12    obligor's payor, where applicable.  The clerk shall file  the
13    clerk's  copy  of the notice in the court file. The notice to
14    the obligor and the payor, if  applicable,  may  be  sent  by
15    ordinary  mail,  certified  mail,  return  receipt requested,
16    facsimile transmission, or other electronic process,  or  may
17    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
18    by  law  for  service  of a summons.  An obligor who fails to
19    comply with a notice provided under this paragraph is  guilty
20    of a Class B misdemeanor.  A payor who fails to comply with a
21    notice  provided under this paragraph is guilty of a business
22    offense and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
23        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
24    transmission from  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid
25    (before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or
26    the Attorney General (on and after that date) to the clerk of
27    the  court  that  a  person who is receiving support payments
28    under this Section is  receiving  services  under  the  Child
29    Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of the
30    Social  Security  Act,  any  support  payments   subsequently
31    received  by  the  clerk of the court shall be transmitted in
32    accordance with the instructions of the  Illinois  Department
33    of Public Aid or the Attorney General until the Department or
34    the  Attorney  General gives notice to the clerk of the court
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 1    to cease the transmittal. After  providing  the  notification
 2    authorized  under  this paragraph, the Illinois Department of
 3    Public Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory  Act
 4    of  1997)  or  the  Attorney General (on and after that date)
 5    shall be entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of  any  further
 6    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
 7    copy  of  the Illinois Department of Public Aid's or Attorney
 8    General's notification in the court file.  The failure of the
 9    clerk to file a copy of the notification in  the  court  file
10    shall  not, however, affect the Illinois Department of Public
11    Aid's or  Attorney  General's  right  to  receive  notice  of
12    further proceedings.
13        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
14    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
15    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
16    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
17    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
18    to the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  be  deposited
19    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
20    from  these funds shall be as provided in the Illinois Public
21    Aid Code. Payments received  by  a  local  governmental  unit
22    shall  be  deposited  in that unit's General Assistance Fund.
23    Any order of court directing payment of child  support  to  a
24    clerk  of  court  or  the  Court Service Division of a County
25    Department of Public Aid, which order has been entered on  or
26    after  August  14,  1961,  and prior to the effective date of
27    this Act, may be amended by the court in line with this  Act;
28    and orders involving payments of maintenance or child support
29    to  recipients of public aid may in like manner be amended to
30    conform to this Act.
31        (6)  No filing fee or  costs  will  be  required  in  any
32    action  brought  at the request of the Illinois Department of
33    Public Aid or the Attorney General in  any  proceeding  under
34    this Act.  However, any such fees or costs may be assessed by
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 1    the  court  against  the  respondent  in the court's order of
 2    support or any modification thereof  in  a  proceeding  under
 3    this Act.
 4        (7)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
 5    the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to the
 6    Illinois Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General  by
 7    order   of   court  or  upon  notification  by  the  Illinois
 8    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General,  the  clerk
 9    shall  transmit  all  such payments, within 4 working days of
10    receipt, to  ensure  insure  that  funds  are  available  for
11    immediate  distribution  by  the  Department  or the Attorney
12    General  to  the  person  or  entity  entitled   thereto   in
13    accordance  with  standards  of the Child Support Enforcement
14    Program established under Title IV-D of the  Social  Security
15    Act.   The  clerk shall notify the Department or the Attorney
16    General of the date of receipt and amount thereof at the time
17    of  transmittal.   Where  the  clerk  has  entered  into   an
18    agreement  of cooperation with the Department or the Attorney
19    General to record the  terms  of  child  support  orders  and
20    payments  made  thereunder  directly  into  the IV-D Agency's
21    Department's automated  data  processing  system,  the  clerk
22    shall  account  for,  transmit and otherwise distribute child
23    support payments in accordance with such agreement in lieu of
24    the requirements contained herein.
25        In any action filed in a  county  with  a  population  of
26    1,000,000  or  less,  the  court  shall  assess  against  the
27    respondent  in  any order of maintenance or child support any
28    sum up to $36 annually authorized by ordinance of the  county
29    board  to be collected by the clerk of the court as costs for
30    administering the collection and disbursement of  maintenance
31    and child support payments.  Such sum shall be in addition to
32    and  separate  from amounts ordered to be paid as maintenance
33    or child support.
34    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
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 1        (750 ILCS 5/706.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 706.1)
 2        Sec. 706.1.  Withholding of Income to Secure  Payment  of
 3    Support.
 4    (A)  Definitions.
 5        (1)  "Order  for  support"  means  any order of the court
 6    which provides for periodic payment of funds for the  support
 7    of  a  child or maintenance of a spouse, whether temporary or
 8    final, and includes any such order which provides for:
 9             (a)  Modification or resumption of,  or  payment  of
10        arrearage accrued under, a previously existing order;
11             (b)  Reimbursement of support; or
12             (c)  Enrollment  in  a health insurance plan that is
13        available to the obligor through  an  employer  or  labor
14        union or trade union.
15        (2)  "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
16    obligations  as determined by the court and incorporated into
17    an order for support.
18        (2.5)  "Business day" means a day on which State  offices
19    are open for regular business.
20        (3)  "Delinquency"  means  any payment under an order for
21    support which becomes due and remains unpaid after  entry  of
22    the order for support.
23        (4)  "Income"  means  any  form of periodic payment to an
24    individual, regardless of source, including, but not  limited
25    to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
26    contractor,   workers'   compensation,  disability,  annuity,
27    pension,  and  retirement  benefits,  lottery  prize  awards,
28    insurance proceeds,  vacation  pay,  bonuses,  profit-sharing
29    payments,  interest,  and  any  other  payments,  made by any
30    person, private entity, federal or state government, any unit
31    of local government, school district or any entity created by
32    Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
33             (a)  Any amounts required by  law  to  be  withheld,
34        other  than  creditor  claims, including, but not limited
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 1        to, federal, State and local taxes, Social  Security  and
 2        other retirement and disability contributions;
 3             (b)  Union dues;
 4             (c)  Any  amounts  exempted  by the federal Consumer
 5        Credit Protection Act;
 6             (d)  Public assistance payments; and
 7             (e)  Unemployment  insurance  benefits   except   as
 8        provided by law.
 9        Any  other  State  or  local  laws  which limit or exempt
10    income or the amount or percentage  of  income  that  can  be
11    withheld shall not apply.
12        (5)  "Obligor"  means  the  individual who owes a duty to
13    make payments under an order for support.
14        (6)  "Obligee" means the individual to  whom  a  duty  of
15    support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
16        (7)  "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
17        (8)  "Public  office"  means  any elected official or any
18    State or local agency which is or may become  responsible  by
19    law  for enforcement of, or which is or may become authorized
20    to enforce, an order for support, including, but not  limited
21    to:  the  Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Public
22    Aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services, the  Illinois
23    Department  of  Children and Family Services, and the various
24    State's  Attorneys,  Clerks  of   the   Circuit   Court   and
25    supervisors of general assistance.
26        (9)  "Premium"  means  the  dollar  amount  for which the
27    obligor is liable to his employer or  labor  union  or  trade
28    union and which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in
29    a  health  insurance  plan  that  is available to the obligor
30    through an employer or labor union or trade union.
31    (B)  Entry of Order for Support Containing Income Withholding
32    Provisions; Income Withholding Notice.
33        (1)  In addition to  any  content  required  under  other
34    laws,  every  order  for  support entered on or after July 1,
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 1    1997, shall:
 2             (a)  Require an  income  withholding  notice  to  be
 3        prepared  and  served  immediately  upon any payor of the
 4        obligor by the obligee or public office, unless a written
 5        agreement is reached between and signed by  both  parties
 6        providing  for  an  alternative arrangement, approved and
 7        entered into the  record  by  the  court,  which  ensures
 8        payment  of support.  In that case, the order for support
 9        shall provide that an income withholding notice is to  be
10        prepared   and   served   only  if  the  obligor  becomes
11        delinquent in paying the order for support; and
12             (b)  Contain  a  dollar  amount  to  be  paid  until
13        payment in full of any  delinquency  that  accrues  after
14        entry  of  the order for support.  The amount for payment
15        of delinquency shall not be less than 20% of the total of
16        the current support amount and  the  amount  to  be  paid
17        periodically  for  payment of any arrearage stated in the
18        order for support; and
19             (c)  Include the obligor's Social  Security  Number,
20        which  the  obligor  shall  disclose to the court. If the
21        obligor is not a United States citizen, the obligor shall
22        disclose to the court, and the court shall include in the
23        order  for  support,  the  obligor's  alien  registration
24        number,  passport  number,  and  home  country's   social
25        security or national health number, if applicable.
26        (2)  At  the  time  the order for support is entered, the
27    Clerk of the Circuit Court shall provide a copy of the  order
28    to the obligor and shall make copies available to the obligee
29    and public office.
30        (3)  The income withholding notice shall:
31             (a)  Be  in  the  standard  format prescribed by the
32        federal Department of Health and Human Services; and
33             (b)  Direct any payor to withhold the dollar  amount
34        required for current support under the order for support;
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 1        and
 2             (c)  Direct  any payor to withhold the dollar amount
 3        required to be paid  periodically  under  the  order  for
 4        support for payment of the amount of any arrearage stated
 5        in the order for support; and
 6             (d)  Direct  any payor or labor union or trade union
 7        to enroll a child as a beneficiary of a health  insurance
 8        plan and withhold or cause to be withheld, if applicable,
 9        any required premiums; and
10             (e)  State   the   amount   of   the   payor  income
11        withholding fee specified under this Section; and
12             (f)  State that the amount  actually  withheld  from
13        the  obligor's  income  for  support  and other purposes,
14        including the payor withholding fee specified under  this
15        Section,  may  not  be  in  excess  of the maximum amount
16        permitted under the federal  Consumer  Credit  Protection
17        Act; and
18             (g)  State the duties of the payor and the fines and
19        penalties for failure to withhold and pay over income and
20        for  discharging,  disciplining,  refusing  to  hire,  or
21        otherwise  penalizing  the obligor because of the duty to
22        withhold and pay over income under this Section; and
23             (h)  State the rights, remedies, and duties  of  the
24        obligor under this Section; and
25             (i)  Include  the  obligor's Social Security Number;
26        and
27             (j)  Include the date that withholding  for  current
28        support   terminates,   which   shall   be  the  date  of
29        termination of the current support obligation  set  forth
30        in the order for support.
31        (4)  The  accrual  of  a  delinquency  as a condition for
32    service of an income withholding notice, under the  exception
33    to immediate withholding in paragraph (1) of this subsection,
34    shall  apply  only  to  the  initial  service  of  an  income
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 1    withholding notice on a payor of the obligor.
 2        (5)  Notwithstanding    the    exception   to   immediate
 3    withholding contained in paragraph (1) of this subsection, if
 4    the court finds at the time of any hearing that an  arrearage
 5    has  accrued,  the  court shall order immediate service of an
 6    income withholding notice upon the payor.
 7        (6)  If the order for support,  under  the  exception  to
 8    immediate  withholding  contained  in  paragraph  (1) of this
 9    subsection, provides that an income withholding notice is  to
10    be prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent
11    in  paying  the  order for support, the obligor may execute a
12    written waiver of  that  condition  and  request    immediate
13    service on the payor.
14        (7)  The  obligee  or  public office may serve the income
15    withholding  notice  on  the  payor  or  its  superintendent,
16    manager, or other agent by ordinary mail  or  certified  mail
17    return  receipt requested, by facsimile transmission or other
18    electronic means, by personal  delivery,  or  by  any  method
19    provided  by  law  for  service of a summons.  At the time of
20    service on the payor  and  as  notice  that  withholding  has
21    commenced, the obligee or public office shall serve a copy of
22    the income withholding notice on the obligor by ordinary mail
23    addressed  to  his  or  her  last  known  address.  Proofs of
24    service on the payor and the obligor shall be filed with  the
25    Clerk of the Circuit Court.
26        (8)  At  any  time after the initial service of an income
27    withholding notice under this Section, any other payor of the
28    obligor may be served with the same income withholding notice
29    without further notice to the obligor.
30        (9) (4)  New service of an income order  for  withholding
31    notice  is  not  required  in  order to resume withholding of
32    income in the case of an obligor  with  respect  to  whom  an
33    income  order for withholding notice was previously served on
34    the payor if withholding of income was terminated because  of
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 1    an  interruption in the obligor's employment of less than 180
 2    days.
 3    (C)  Income Withholding After Accrual of Delinquency.
 4        (1)  Whenever  an  obligor  accrues  a  delinquency,  the
 5    obligee or public office  may  prepare  and  serve  upon  the
 6    obligor's payor an income withholding notice that:
 7             (a)  Contains   the   information   required   under
 8        paragraph (3) of subsection (B); and
 9             (b)  Contains  a computation of the period and total
10        amount of the delinquency as of the date of  the  notice;
11        and
12             (c)  Directs the payor to withhold the dollar amount
13        required  to be withheld periodically under the order for
14        support for payment of the delinquency.
15        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
16    of the income withholding notice shall be served as  provided
17    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
18        (3)  The  obligor may contest withholding commenced under
19    this subsection by filing a petition to  contest  withholding
20    with  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit Court within 20 days after
21    service of a copy of the income  withholding  notice  on  the
22    obligor.  However,  the  grounds  for the petition to contest
23    withholding shall be limited to:
24             (a)  A dispute concerning the existence or amount of
25        the delinquency; or
26             (b)  The identity of the obligor.
27        The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify  the  obligor
28    and the obligee or public office of the time and place of the
29    hearing  on  the  petition to contest withholding.  The court
30    shall  hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to  the  provisions   of
31    subsection (F).
32    (D)  Initiated Withholding.
33        (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
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 1    if  the  court  has not required that income withholding take
 2    effect immediately, the obligee or public office may initiate
 3    withholding, regardless of whether a delinquency has accrued,
 4    by preparing and serving an income withholding notice on  the
 5    payor  that contains the information required under paragraph
 6    (3) of subsection (B) and states that  the  parties'  written
 7    agreement  providing  an alternative arrangement to immediate
 8    withholding under paragraph (1) of subsection (B)  no  longer
 9    ensures  payment of support due and the reason or reasons why
10    it does not.
11        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
12    of the income withholding notice shall be served as  provided
13    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
14        (3)  The  obligor may contest withholding commenced under
15    this subsection by filing a petition to  contest  withholding
16    with  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit Court within 20 days after
17    service of a copy of the income  withholding  notice  on  the
18    obligor.  However,  the  grounds  for  the  petition shall be
19    limited to a dispute concerning:
20             (a) whether the parties' written agreement providing
21        an alternative arrangement to immediate withholding under
22        paragraph (1)  of  subsection  (B)  continues  to  ensure
23        payment of support; or
24             (b) the identity of the obligor.
25        It  shall  not  be grounds for filing a petition that the
26    obligor has  made  all  payments  due  by  the  date  of  the
27    petition.
28        (4)  If   the   obligor   files   a  petition  contesting
29    withholding within the 20-day period required under paragraph
30    (3), the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify the  obligor
31    and the obligee or public office, as appropriate, of the time
32    and  place  of  the hearing on the petition.  The court shall
33    hold the hearing pursuant to  the  provisions  of  subsection
34    (F).  regular or facsimile regular or facsimile
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 1    (E)  Duties of Payor.
 2        (1)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any payor who has been
 3    served with an income withholding notice to  deduct  and  pay
 4    over  income as provided in this subsection.  The payor shall
 5    deduct  the  amount  designated  in  the  income  withholding
 6    notice, as supplemented by any notice  provided  pursuant  to
 7    paragraph  (6) of subsection (G), beginning no later than the
 8    next payment of income which is payable or creditable to  the
 9    obligor  that  occurs  14  days following the date the income
10    withholding notice was mailed, sent  by  facsimile  or  other
11    electronic  means,  or  placed  for  personal  delivery to or
12    service on the payor.  The  payor  may  combine  all  amounts
13    withheld  for the benefit of an obligee or public office into
14    a single payment and transmit the payment with a  listing  of
15    obligors  from  whom withholding has been effected. The payor
16    shall pay the amount withheld to the obligee or public office
17    within 7 business days after the date the amount  would  (but
18    for  the  duty to withhold income) have been paid or credited
19    to the obligor. If the  payor  knowingly  fails  to  pay  any
20    amount  withheld  to  the  obligee  or public office within 7
21    business days after the date the amount would have been  paid
22    or  credited to the obligor, the payor shall pay a penalty of
23    $100 for each day that the withheld amount is not paid to the
24    obligee or public office after the period of 7 business  days
25    has  expired.   The  failure  of  a  payor,  on more than one
26    occasion, to pay amounts withheld to the  obligee  or  public
27    office within 7 business days after the date the amount would
28    have   been  paid  or  credited  to  the  obligor  creates  a
29    presumption that the payor knowingly failed to pay  over  the
30    amounts.   This penalty, along with any amount required to be
31    withheld and paid, may be collected in a civil  action  which
32    may  be  brought against the payor in favor of the obligee or
33    public office. A finding of a payor's  nonperformance  within
34    the  time required under this Section must be documented by a
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 1    certified mail return receipt showing  the  date  the  income
 2    order  for  withholding  notice  was served on the payor. For
 3    purposes  of  this  Section,  a  withheld  amount  shall   be
 4    considered  paid  by  a payor on the date it is mailed by the
 5    payor, or on the date an electronic  funds  transfer  of  the
 6    amount  has  been  initiated  by  the  payor,  or on the date
 7    delivery of the amount has been initiated by the  payor.  For
 8    each deduction, the payor shall provide the obligee or public
 9    office,  at the time of transmittal, with the date the amount
10    would (but for the duty to withhold income) have been paid or
11    credited to the obligor.  The payor shall not be required  to
12    vary  the  normal  pay  and  disbursement  cycles in order to
13    comply with this paragraph.
14        Upon receipt of an income  withholding  notice  requiring
15    that  a  minor  child  be  named as a beneficiary of a health
16    insurance plan available through an employer or  labor  union
17    or  trade  union,  the employer or labor union or trade union
18    shall immediately enroll the minor child as a beneficiary  in
19    the   health   insurance   plan   designated  by  the  income
20    withholding notice. The employer shall withhold any  required
21    premiums  and  pay  over  any  amounts  so  withheld  and any
22    additional amounts the employer pays to the insurance carrier
23    in a timely manner.  The employer or  labor  union  or  trade
24    union shall mail to the obligee, within 15 days of enrollment
25    or  upon request, notice of the date of coverage, information
26    on the dependent coverage plan, and all  forms  necessary  to
27    obtain  reimbursement  for  covered  health expenses, such as
28    would be made available to a new employee. When an order  for
29    dependent coverage is in effect and the insurance coverage is
30    terminated  or  changed for any reason, the employer or labor
31    union or trade union shall notify the obligee within 10  days
32    of  the  termination  or  change  date  along  with notice of
33    conversion privileges.
34        For withholding of income, the payor shall be entitled to
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 1    receive a fee not to exceed $5 per month to be taken from the
 2    income to be paid to the obligor.
 3        (2)  Whenever the obligor is no longer  receiving  income
 4    from  the  payor, the payor shall return a copy of the income
 5    withholding notice to the obligee or public office and  shall
 6    provide   information  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  this
 7    Section.
 8        (3)  Withholding of income under this  Section  shall  be
 9    made  without regard to any prior or subsequent garnishments,
10    attachments,  wage  assignments,  or  any  other  claims   of
11    creditors.   Withholding  of  income under this Section shall
12    not be in excess of the maximum amounts permitted  under  the
13    federal Consumer Credit Protection Act. If the payor has been
14    served   with   more   than  one  income  withholding  notice
15    pertaining to the same  obligor,  the  payor  shall  allocate
16    income  available  for  withholding  on a proportionate share
17    basis, giving priority to current support payments.  If there
18    is any income available for withholding after withholding for
19    all current support obligations, the payor shall allocate the
20    income to past due support payments ordered in cases in which
21    cash assistance under the Illinois Public  Aid  Code  is  not
22    being  provided  to  the obligee and then to past due support
23    payments ordered in cases in which cash assistance under  the
24    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code is being provided to the obligee,
25    both on a proportionate share basis.  A  payor  who  complies
26    with an income withholding notice that is regular on its face
27    shall  not  be subject to civil liability with respect to any
28    individual, any agency, or any creditor of  the  obligor  for
29    conduct in compliance with the notice.
30        (4)  No payor shall discharge, discipline, refuse to hire
31    or  otherwise  penalize  any  obligor  because of the duty to
32    withhold income.
33    (F)  Petitions to Contest Withholding or to Modify,  Suspend,
34    Terminate, or Correct Income Withholding Notices.
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 1        (1)  When   an   obligor  files  a  petition  to  contest
 2    withholding, the court, after  due  notice  to  all  parties,
 3    shall  hear the matter as soon as practicable and shall enter
 4    an order granting or denying relief, ordering service  of  an
 5    amended  income  withholding  notice,  where  applicable,  or
 6    otherwise resolving the matter.
 7        The  court shall deny the obligor's petition if the court
 8    finds that when the income  withholding  notice  was  mailed,
 9    sent  by facsimile transmission or other electronic means, or
10    placed for personal delivery to or service on the payor:
11             (a)  A delinquency existed; or
12             (b)  The parties'  written  agreement  providing  an
13        alternative  arrangement  to  immediate withholding under
14        paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer ensured payment
15        of support.
16        (2)  At any time, an obligor, obligee, public  office  or
17    Clerk of the Circuit Court may petition the court to:
18             (a)  Modify,   suspend   or   terminate  the  income
19        withholding notice because of a modification,  suspension
20        or termination of the underlying order for support; or
21             (b)  Modify  the  amount of income to be withheld to
22        reflect payment in full or in part of the delinquency  or
23        arrearage by income withholding or otherwise; or
24             (c)  Suspend  the  income withholding notice because
25        of inability to deliver income withheld  to  the  obligee
26        due to the obligee's failure to provide a mailing address
27        or other means of delivery.
28        (3)  At  any  time  an  obligor may petition the court to
29    correct a term contained in an income withholding  notice  to
30    conform  to  that  stated in the underlying order for support
31    for:
32             (a)  The amount of current support;
33             (b)  The amount of the arrearage;
34             (c)  The  periodic  amount  for   payment   of   the
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 1        arrearage; or
 2             (d)  The   periodic   amount   for  payment  of  the
 3        delinquency.
 4        (4)  The obligor, obligee or public office shall serve on
 5    the payor, in the  manner  provided  for  service  of  income
 6    withholding  notices  in  paragraph  (7) of subsection (B), a
 7    copy of any order entered pursuant to  this  subsection  that
 8    affects the duties of the payor.
 9        (5)  At any time, a public office or Clerk of the Circuit
10    Court may serve a notice on the payor to:
11             (a)  Cease  withholding  of  income  for  payment of
12        current support for a child when the  support  obligation
13        for  that  child has automatically ceased under the order
14        for support through emancipation or otherwise; or
15             (b)  Cease withholding  of  income  for  payment  of
16        delinquency   or   arrearage   when  the  delinquency  or
17        arrearage has been paid in full.
18        (6)  The notice provided for under paragraph (5) of  this
19    subsection  shall  be  served  on  the  payor  in  the manner
20    provided  for  service  of  income  withholding  notices   in
21    paragraph (7) of subsection (B), and a copy shall be provided
22    to the obligor and the obligee.
23        (7)  The  income  withholding notice shall continue to be
24    binding upon the payor until service  of  an  amended  income
25    withholding  notice  or  any  order  of  the  court or notice
26    entered or provided for under this subsection.
27    (G)  Additional Duties.
28        (1)  An  obligee  who  is  receiving  income  withholding
29    payments under this Section shall notify the  payor,  if  the
30    obligee receives the payments directly from the payor, or the
31    public   office  or  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  as
32    appropriate, of any change of address within 7 days  of  such
33    change.
34        (2)  An  obligee  who  is a recipient of public aid shall
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 1    send a copy of any income withholding notice  served  by  the
 2    obligee  to  the  Attorney  General Division of Child Support
 3    Enforcement of the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
 4        (3)  Each obligor shall notify the  obligee,  the  public
 5    office,  and  the Clerk of the Circuit Court of any change of
 6    address within 7 days.
 7        (4)  An obligor whose income is being withheld or who has
 8    been served with a notice of  delinquency  pursuant  to  this
 9    Section  shall notify the obligee, the public office, and the
10    Clerk of the Circuit Court of any new payor, within 7 days.
11        (5)  When the Office of  the  Attorney  General  Illinois
12    Department  of  Public Aid is no longer authorized to receive
13    payments for the obligee, it shall, within 7 days, notify the
14    payor or, where appropriate, the Clerk of the Circuit  Court,
15    to redirect income withholding payments to the obligee.
16        (6)  The obligee or public office shall provide notice to
17    the payor and Clerk of the Circuit Court of any other support
18    payment  made,  including but not limited to, a set-off under
19    federal and State law or partial payment of  the  delinquency
20    or arrearage, or both.
21        (7)  Any  public  office  and  Clerk of the Circuit Court
22    which collects, disburses or receives  payments  pursuant  to
23    income withholding notices shall maintain complete, accurate,
24    and  clear  records  of all payments and their disbursements.
25    Certified copies of payment records maintained  by  a  public
26    office  or  Clerk of the Circuit Court shall, without further
27    proof, be admitted into evidence  in  any  legal  proceedings
28    under this Section.
29        (8)  The  Illinois  Department  of Public Aid (before the
30    effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997)  or  the
31    Attorney  General  (on  and  after  that  date)  shall design
32    suggested legal forms for proceeding under this  Section  and
33    shall   make   available   to   the  courts  such  forms  and
34    informational materials which  describe  the  procedures  and
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 1    remedies  set forth herein for distribution to all parties in
 2    support actions.
 3        (9)  At the time of transmitting  each  support  payment,
 4    the  clerk  of the circuit court shall provide the obligee or
 5    public office, as appropriate, with any information furnished
 6    by the payor as to the date the amount  would  (but  for  the
 7    duty  to  withhold  income) have been paid or credited to the
 8    obligor.
 9    (H)  Penalties.
10        (1)  Where a payor wilfully fails to withhold or pay over
11    income pursuant  to  a  properly  served  income  withholding
12    notice,  or wilfully discharges, disciplines, refuses to hire
13    or otherwise penalizes an obligor as prohibited by subsection
14    (E), or otherwise fails to comply with any duties imposed  by
15    this  Section,  the  obligee,  public  office  or obligor, as
16    appropriate, may file a complaint with the court against  the
17    payor.   The  clerk  of  the  circuit  court shall notify the
18    obligee or public office, as appropriate, and the obligor and
19    payor of the time and place of the hearing on the  complaint.
20    The  court  shall  resolve any factual dispute including, but
21    not limited to, a denial that the payor is paying or has paid
22    income to the obligor.   Upon  a  finding  in  favor  of  the
23    complaining party, the court:
24             (a)  Shall enter judgment and direct the enforcement
25        thereof  for  the  total  amount  that the payor wilfully
26        failed to withhold or pay over; and
27             (b)  May order employment  or  reinstatement  of  or
28        restitution  to  the  obligor, or both, where the obligor
29        has been discharged, disciplined,  denied  employment  or
30        otherwise  penalized  by  the payor and may impose a fine
31        upon the payor not to exceed $200.
32        (2)  Any obligee, public office or obligor  who  wilfully
33    initiates  a  false  proceeding  under  this  Section  or who
34    wilfully fails  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this
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 1    Section shall be punished as in cases of contempt of court.
 2    (I)  Alternative   Procedures   for   Service  of  an  Income
 3    Withholding Notice.
 4        (1)  The procedures of this subsection may be used in any
 5    matter to serve an income withholding notice on a payor if:
 6             (a)  For  any  reason  the  most  recent  order  for
 7        support entered does not contain the  income  withholding
 8        provisions required under subsection (B), irrespective of
 9        whether  a  separate  order  for  withholding was entered
10        prior to July 1, 1997; and
11             (b)  The obligor has  accrued  a  delinquency  after
12        entry of the most recent order for support.
13        (2)  The obligee or public office shall prepare and serve
14    the   income   withholding  notice  in  accordance  with  the
15    provisions of subsection (C), except that  the  notice  shall
16    contain  a  periodic  amount  for  payment of the delinquency
17    equal to 20% of the total of the current support  amount  and
18    the  amount  to  be  paid  periodically  for  payment  of any
19    arrearage stated in the most recent order for support.
20        (3)  If the  obligor  requests  in  writing  that  income
21    withholding  become effective prior to the obligor accruing a
22    delinquency under the most  recent  order  for  support,  the
23    obligee  or  public  office  may  prepare and serve an income
24    withholding notice on the payor  as  provided  in  subsection
25    (B).   In  addition to filing proofs of service of the income
26    withholding notice on the payor and the obligor, the  obligee
27    or  public  office shall file a copy of the obligor's written
28    request for income withholding with the Clerk of the  Circuit
29    Court.
30        (4)  All  other  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be
31    applicable  with respect to the provisions of this subsection
32    (I).
33    (J)  Remedies in Addition to Other Laws.
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 1        (1)  The rights, remedies, duties and  penalties  created
 2    by  this  Section  are in addition to and not in substitution
 3    for any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties  created
 4    by any other law.
 5        (2)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  as
 6    invalidating  any  assignment  of  wages or benefits executed
 7    prior to January 1, 1984 or any order for withholding  served
 8    prior to July 1, 1997.
 9    (Source: P.A.   89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;
10    90-425, eff. 8-15-97; revised 9-29-97.)
11        (750 ILCS 5/709) (from Ch. 40, par. 709)
12        Sec. 709.  Mandatory child support payments to clerk.
13        (a)  As of January 1, 1982, child support orders  entered
14    in  any  county  covered  by  this  subsection  shall be made
15    pursuant to the provisions of Sections  709  through  712  of
16    this  Act.   For  purposes of these Sections, the term "child
17    support payment"  or  "payment"  shall  include  any  payment
18    ordered to be made solely for the purpose of the support of a
19    child  or children or any payment ordered for general support
20    which includes  any  amount  for  support  of  any  child  or
21    children.
22        The  provisions  of  Sections  709  through  712 shall be
23    applicable to any county with a population of  2  million  or
24    more and to any other county which notifies the Supreme Court
25    of  its  desire  to  be included within the coverage of these
26    Sections and is certified pursuant to Supreme Court Rules.
27        The  effective  date  of  inclusion,  however,  shall  be
28    subject to approval of the application for  reimbursement  of
29    the  costs of the support program by the Department of Public
30    Aid (before the effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of
31    1997)  or  the  Attorney  General (on and after that date) as
32    provided in Section 712.
33        (b)  In any proceeding for  a  dissolution  of  marriage,
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 1    legal  separation,  or declaration of invalidity of marriage,
 2    or in any supplementary proceedings in which  a  judgment  or
 3    modification  thereof  for  the  payment  of child support is
 4    entered on or after January 1, 1982, in any county covered by
 5    Sections 709 through 712, and the person entitled to  payment
 6    is receiving a grant of financial aid under Article IV of the
 7    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or has applied and qualified for
 8    support services under Section 10-1 of  that  Code  or  under
 9    Section  7.5  of  the  Attorney  General Act, the court shall
10    direct:  (1) that such payments be made to the clerk  of  the
11    court and (2) that the parties affected shall each thereafter
12    notify  the clerk of any change of address or change in other
13    conditions that may affect the administration of  the  order,
14    including  the  fact  that  a party who was previously not on
15    public aid has become a recipient of public  aid,  within  10
16    days  of such change.  All notices sent to the obligor's last
17    known  address  on  file  with  the  clerk  shall  be  deemed
18    sufficient  to  proceed  with  enforcement  pursuant  to  the
19    provisions of Sections 709 through 712.
20        In all other cases, the court may direct that payments be
21    made to the clerk of the court.
22        (c)  Except  as  provided  in  subsection  (d)  of   this
23    Section,  the clerk shall disburse the payments to the person
24    or persons entitled thereto under the terms of the  order  or
25    judgment.
26        (d)  The court shall determine, prior to the entry of the
27    support  order, if the party who is to receive the support is
28    presently receiving public aid or has a  current  application
29    for  public  aid  pending  and shall enter the finding on the
30    record.
31        If the person entitled to payment is a recipient  of  aid
32    under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid Code, the clerk, upon being
33    informed  of  this  fact  by  finding  of   the   court,   by
34    notification  by  the  party  entitled  to  payment,  by  the
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 1    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid, the Attorney General, or
 2    by the local governmental unit, shall make all  payments  to:
 3    (1) the Attorney General Illinois Department of Public Aid if
 4    the  person is a recipient under Article III, IV, or V of the
 5    Code or (2) the local governmental unit responsible  for  his
 6    or  her support if the person is a recipient under Article VI
 7    or VII of the  Code.  In  accordance  with  federal  law  and
 8    regulations,  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  may
 9    continue  to  collect  current  maintenance payments or child
10    support payments, or  both,  after  those  persons  cease  to
11    receive  public  assistance and until termination of services
12    under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or  under
13    Sections  7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.  The
14    Illinois Department of Public Aid  or  the  Attorney  General
15    shall  pay  the  net  amount collected to those persons after
16    deducting any costs incurred in making the collection or  any
17    collection  fee  from  the  amount of any recovery made. Upon
18    termination of public aid payments to  such  a  recipient  or
19    termination  of  services  under  Article  X  of the Illinois
20    Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through  7.295  of  the
21    Attorney  General Act, the Illinois Department of Public Aid,
22    the Attorney General, or the appropriate  local  governmental
23    unit  shall  notify  the  clerk  in  writing or by electronic
24    transmission that all subsequent  payments  are  to  be  sent
25    directly to the person entitled thereto.
26        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
27    transmission  from  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid
28    (before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or
29    the Attorney  General (on and after that date) to  the  clerk
30    of  the court that a person who is receiving support payments
31    under this Section is  receiving  services  under  the  Child
32    Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of the
33    Social  Security  Act,  any  support  payments   subsequently
34    received  by  the  clerk of the court shall be transmitted in
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 1    accordance with the instructions of the  Illinois  Department
 2    of Public Aid or the Attorney General until the Department or
 3    the  Attorney  General gives notice to the clerk of the court
 4    to cease the transmittal. After  providing  the  notification
 5    authorized  under  this paragraph, the Illinois Department of
 6    Public Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory  Act
 7    of  1997)  or  the Attorney  General (on and after that date)
 8    shall be entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of  any  further
 9    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
10    copy  of  the Illinois Department of Public Aid's or Attorney
11    General's notification in the court file.  The failure of the
12    clerk to file a copy of the notification in  the  court  file
13    shall  not, however, affect the Illinois Department of Public
14    Aid's or  Attorney  General's  right  to  receive  notice  of
15    further proceedings.
16        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
17    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
18    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
19    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
20    Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this Section
21    to the Illinois Department of Public Aid shall  be  deposited
22    in the Public Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund. Disbursements
23    from  these funds shall be as provided in the Illinois Public
24    Aid Code. Payments received  by  a  local  governmental  unit
25    shall be deposited in that unit's General Assistance Fund.
26        (e)  Any  order  or judgment may be amended by the court,
27    upon its own motion or upon the motion of  either  party,  to
28    conform  with  the  provisions  of  Sections 709 through 712,
29    either as to the requirement of making payments to the  clerk
30    or, where payments are already being made to the clerk, as to
31    the statutory fees provided for under Section 711.
32        (f)  The clerk may invest in any interest bearing account
33    or  in  any securities, monies collected for the benefit of a
34    payee,  where  such  payee  cannot  be  found;  however,  the
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 1    investment may be only for the period until the clerk is able
 2    to locate and present the payee with such monies.  The  clerk
 3    may  invest  in  any  interest  bearing  account,  or  in any
 4    securities, monies collected for the  benefit  of  any  other
 5    payee; however, this does not alter the clerk's obligation to
 6    make  payments to the payee in a timely manner.  Any interest
 7    or capital gains accrued shall be  for  the  benefit  of  the
 8    county and shall be paid into the special fund established in
 9    subsection (b) of Section 711.
10        (g)  The  clerk  shall  establish  and maintain a payment
11    record of all monies received and disbursed and  such  record
12    shall  constitute  prima  facie  evidence of such payment and
13    non-payment, as the case may be.
14        (h)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
15    the clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to  the
16    Illinois  Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General by
17    order  of  court  or  upon  notification  by   the   Illinois
18    Department  of  Public Aid or the Attorney General, the clerk
19    shall transmit all such payments, within 4  working  days  of
20    receipt,  to  ensure  insure  that  funds  are  available for
21    immediate distribution by the Department  to  the  person  or
22    entity  entitled  thereto in accordance with standards of the
23    Child Support Enforcement  Program  established  under  Title
24    IV-D  of the Social Security Act.  The clerk shall notify the
25    Department of the date of receipt and amount thereof  at  the
26    time  of  transmittal.   Where  the clerk has entered into an
27    agreement of cooperation with the Department  to  record  the
28    terms  of  child  support orders and payments made thereunder
29    directly into  the  Department's  automated  data  processing
30    system,  the  clerk shall account for, transmit and otherwise
31    distribute child support payments  in  accordance  with  such
32    agreement in lieu of the requirements contained herein.
33    (Source: P.A. 87-1252; 88-687, eff. 1-24-95.)
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 1        (750 ILCS 5/712) (from Ch. 40, par. 712)
 2        Sec.   712.    (a)  The  Supreme  Court  may  make  Rules
 3    concerning the certification of counties for inclusion in the
 4    child support enforcement program and the application of  the
 5    procedures created by Sections 709 through 712 in the various
 6    counties.
 7        The  Supreme  Court  shall  inform each circuit court and
 8    clerk of the court of the  availability  of  the  program  to
 9    reimburse  counties desiring to participate in the program of
10    enforcement of child support payments.
11        The Supreme Court shall also distribute to  each  circuit
12    court  and  clerk  of the court any materials prepared by the
13    Child  and  Spouse  Support  Unit  comparing  child   support
14    enforcement  in  counties  included  and not included in this
15    program.
16        (b)  Before the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
17    1997,  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid, through the
18    Child and Spouse Support Unit provided for by Section  10-3.1
19    of   The   Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  shall  have  general
20    supervision of the child support programs created by Sections
21    709 through 712 and shall have the powers and duties provided
22    in this Section, including the following:
23        (1)  to make advance payments to any county  included  in
24    the  program  for  expenses  in preparing programs to enforce
25    payment of child support to  the  clerk  from  appropriations
26    made for such purposes by the General Assembly;
27        (2)  to  make  payments to each covered county to pay for
28    its reasonable expenses  actually  necessary  to  maintain  a
29    continuing  program not paid for by fees, penalties, or other
30    monies; provided that, with respect to that  portion  of  the
31    program  on  behalf of dependent children included in a grant
32    of financial aid under Article IV of The Illinois Public  Aid
33    Code  the Unit shall pay only such expenses as is its current
34    practice or as it may deem appropriate; provided further that
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 1    the Unit shall  only  pay  expenses  of  the  entire  program
 2    subject  to  the  availability  of  federal monies to pay the
 3    majority of expenses of the entire child support  enforcement
 4    program; provided further that the Unit or Department may set
 5    standards relating to enforcement which have to be met by any
 6    county  seeking  to  enter a contract with the Department for
 7    reimbursement of expenses of the entire  enforcement  program
 8    prior  to an application for reimbursement being approved and
 9    the  contract  granted;  and  provided  further   that   such
10    standards may relate to, but are not limited to the following
11    factors: maintenance of the payment record, the definition of
12    delinquency;  the  period of time in which a delinquency must
13    be determined, the payor notified, the  remittance  received,
14    the  referral  to  the state's attorney made, and the payment
15    remitted by the clerk to the payee or other party entitled to
16    the payment; the conditions under which referral will not  be
17    made  to  the  state's  attorney;  and  the  definitions  and
18    procedures  for  other  matters necessary for the conduct and
19    operation of the program;
20        (3)  to  monitor   the   various   local   programs   for
21    enforcement of child support payments to the clerk;
22        (4)  to  act  to  encourage  enforcement  whenever  local
23    enforcement procedures are inadequate;
24        (5)  to  receive monies from any source for assistance in
25    enforcement of child support; and
26        (6)  to assist  any  county  desirous  of  assistance  in
27    establishing  and  maintaining  a  child  support enforcement
28    program.
29        (b-5)  On and after the effective date of this amendatory
30    Act of 1997, the Attorney  General,  through  the  Child  and
31    Spouse  Support  Unit  provided  for  by  Section 7.20 of the
32    Attorney General Act, shall have general supervision  of  the
33    child  support  programs  created by Sections 709 through 712
34    and shall  have  the  powers  and  duties  provided  in  this
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 1    Section,  including those assigned to the Illinois Department
 2    of Public Aid and its Child and  Spouse  Support  Unit  under
 3    subsection (b).
 4        (c)  Any county may apply for financial assistance to the
 5    Unit  to  initiate  or  maintain  a  program of child support
 6    enforcement.  Every  county  which  desires  such  assistance
 7    shall  apply according to procedures established by the Unit.
 8    In its application, it shall state the following:   financial
 9    needs,  personnel  requirements,  anticipated  caseloads, any
10    amounts collected or anticipated in fees  or  penalties,  and
11    any other information required by the Unit.
12        (d)  In  the  case that any advance money is given to any
13    county under this Section to initiate an enforcement  system,
14    the  county shall reimburse the state within 2 years from the
15    date such monies are given to it.  The Unit may establish  an
16    appropriate schedule of reimbursement for any county.
17        (e)  In the event of the unavailability of federal monies
18    to  pay  for the greater part of the costs to a county of the
19    child support enforcement program under Sections 709  through
20    712  and  the resulting cessation of state participation, the
21    operation of the  child  support  enforcement  program  under
22    Sections  709  through 712 shall terminate.  The date and the
23    method of termination shall be determined  by  Supreme  Court
24    Rule.
25    (Source: P.A. 84-1395.)
26        Section   55.  The Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act
27    is amended by changing Sections 2.1, 3, 4, 4.1, 11, and 12 as
28    follows:
29        (750 ILCS 15/2.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 1105)
30        Sec. 2.1.  Support  payments;  receiving  and  disbursing
31    agents.
32        (1)  In  actions  instituted  under this Act on and after
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 1    August 14, 1961, involving a minor  child  or  children,  the
 2    Court,  except  in  actions instituted on or after August 26,
 3    1969, in which the  support  payments  are  in  behalf  of  a
 4    recipient  of  aid  under the Illinois Public Aid Code, shall
 5    direct that moneys ordered  to  be  paid  for  support  under
 6    Sections  3  and  4 of this Act shall be paid to the clerk of
 7    the court in counties of less than 3 million population,  and
 8    in  counties of 3 million or more population, to the clerk or
 9    probation officer of  the  court  or  to  the  Court  Service
10    Division  of  the County Department of Public Aid.  After the
11    effective date of this amendatory  Act  of  1975,  the  court
12    shall direct that such support moneys be paid to the clerk or
13    probation  officer  or the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
14    However, the court in its  discretion  may  direct  otherwise
15    where  exceptional circumstances so warrant. If payment is to
16    be made to persons other than the clerk or probation officer,
17    the Attorney General,  the  Court  Service  Division  of  the
18    County  Department  of Public Aid, or the Illinois Department
19    of Public Aid, the judgment or order  of  support  shall  set
20    forth the facts of the exceptional circumstances.
21        (2)  In  actions  instituted after August 26, 1969, where
22    the support payments are in behalf of spouses,  children,  or
23    both, who are recipients of aid under the Illinois Public Aid
24    Code,  the court shall order the payments to be made directly
25    to (1) the Attorney General Illinois Department of Public Aid
26    if the person is a recipient under Articles III, IV or  V  of
27    the  Code,  or (2) to the local governmental unit responsible
28    for the support of the person if he or  she  is  a  recipient
29    under  Articles  VI  or  VII  of the Code. In accordance with
30    federal law  and  regulations,  the  Illinois  Department  of
31    Public  Aid  or the Attorney General  may continue to collect
32    current maintenance payments or child  support  payments,  or
33    both,  after those persons cease to receive public assistance
34    and until termination of services  under  Article  X  of  the
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 1    Illinois  Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295
 2    of the Attorney General Act.    The  Illinois  Department  of
 3    Public  Aid or the Attorney General  shall pay the net amount
 4    collected to those persons after deducting any costs incurred
 5    in making the collection  or  any  collection  fee  from  the
 6    amount  of  any  recovery  made.  The  order shall permit the
 7    Illinois Department of Public Aid, the Attorney  General,  or
 8    the  local  governmental  unit, as the case may be, to direct
 9    that  support  payments  be  made  directly  to  the  spouse,
10    children, or both, or to  some  person  or  agency  in  their
11    behalf,  upon  removal  of  the  spouse  or children from the
12    public aid  rolls  or  upon  termination  of  services  under
13    Article  X  of the Illinois Public Aid Code or under Sections
14    7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act; and upon  such
15    direction,  the Illinois Department or the local governmental
16    unit, as the case requires, shall give notice of such  action
17    to the court in writing or by electronic transmission.
18        (3)  The   clerks,  probation  officers,  and  the  Court
19    Service Division of the County Department of  Public  Aid  in
20    counties  of  3  million  or  more population, and, after the
21    effective date of this amendatory Act of  1975,  the  clerks,
22    probation  officers,  the  Attorney General, and the Illinois
23    Department of Public Aid, shall disburse moneys paid to  them
24    to  the person or persons entitled thereto under the order of
25    the Court.  They shall establish and maintain current records
26    of all moneys received and disbursed and of delinquencies and
27    defaults in required payments.  The Court, by order or  rule,
28    shall make provision for the carrying out of these duties.
29        In  cases  in which a party is receiving child and spouse
30    support services under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid
31    Code  or  under  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney
32    General Act and the order for  support  provides  that  child
33    support  payments  be  made  to  the  obligee,  the  Illinois
34    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
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 1    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 2    that date) may    provide  notice  to  the  obligor  and  the
 3    obligor's  payor,  when income withholding is in effect under
 4    Section 4.1 of this Act, to make all payments  after  receipt
 5    of the Department's or Attorney General's notice to the clerk
 6    of  the  court  until further notice by the Department or the
 7    Attorney General  or order  of  the  court.   Copies  of  the
 8    notice  shall  be provided to the obligee and the clerk.  The
 9    clerk's copy shall contain a proof of service on the  obligor
10    and  the  obligor's payor, where applicable.  The clerk shall
11    file the clerk's copy of the notice in the  court  file.  The
12    notice  to  the  obligor and the payor, if applicable, may be
13    sent  by  ordinary  mail,  certified  mail,  return   receipt
14    requested,   facsimile   transmission,  or  other  electronic
15    process, or may be served upon the obligor or payor using any
16    method provided by law for service of a summons.  An  obligor
17    who  fails  to  comply  with  a  notice  provided  under this
18    paragraph is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.   A  payor  who
19    fails  to  comply with a notice provided under this paragraph
20    is guilty of a business offense and subject to a fine  of  up
21    to $1,000.
22        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
23    transmission  from  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid
24    (before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or
25    the Attorney General (on and after that date) to the clerk of
26    the court that a person who  is  receiving  support  payments
27    under  this  Section  is  receiving  services under the Child
28    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
29    Social   Security  Act,  any  support  payments  subsequently
30    received by the clerk of the court shall  be  transmitted  in
31    accordance  with  the instructions of the Illinois Department
32    of Public Aid or the Attorney General  until  the  Department
33    or  the  Attorney  General  gives  notice to the clerk of the
34    court  to  cease  the  transmittal.   After   providing   the
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 1    notification  authorized  under  this paragraph, the Illinois
 2    Department of Public Aid (before the effective date  of  this
 3    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 4    that  date)    shall  be entitled as a party to notice of any
 5    further proceedings in the case.   The  clerk  of  the  court
 6    shall  file a copy of the Illinois Department of Public Aid's
 7    or Attorney General's notification in the  court  file.   The
 8    failure  of  the  clerk to file a copy of the notification in
 9    the court  file  shall  not,  however,  affect  the  Illinois
10    Department  of  Public  Aid's  or Attorney General's right to
11    receive notice of further proceedings.
12        (4)  Payments  under  this  Section   to   the   Illinois
13    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General  pursuant to
14    the  Child  Support  Enforcement Program established by Title
15    IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be paid into the  Child
16    Support Enforcement Trust Fund. All other payments under this
17    Section  to  the  Illinois  Department of Public Aid shall be
18    deposited in the Public  Assistance  Recoveries  Trust  Fund.
19    Disbursements  from  these  funds shall be as provided in the
20    Illinois Public  Aid  Code.  Payments  received  by  a  local
21    governmental  unit  shall be deposited in that unit's General
22    Assistance Fund.
23        (5)  Orders and assignments entered or executed prior  to
24    the  Act  approved  August  14,  1961  shall  not be affected
25    thereby.  Employers served  with  wage  assignments  executed
26    prior  to  that  date  shall  comply  with the terms thereof.
27    However, the Court, on petition of the state's  attorney,  or
28    of   the   Illinois   Department   of  Public  Aid  or  local
29    governmental unit in respect to recipients of public aid, may
30    order the execution of new assignments and enter  new  orders
31    designating  the  clerk,  probation  officer, or the Illinois
32    Department of Public Aid or  appropriate  local  governmental
33    unit in respect to payments in behalf of recipients of public
34    aid,  as  the  person  or  agency  authorized  to receive and
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 1    disburse the salary or wages assigned.  On like petition  the
 2    Court   may  enter  new  orders  designating  such  officers,
 3    agencies or governmental units to receive  and  disburse  the
 4    payments ordered under Section 4.
 5        (6)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
 6    the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to the
 7    Illinois Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General  by
 8    order   of   court  or  upon  notification  by  the  Illinois
 9    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General,  the  clerk
10    shall  transmit  all  such payments, within 4 working days of
11    receipt, to  ensure  insure  that  funds  are  available  for
12    immediate  distribution  by  the  Department  or the Attorney
13    General  to  the  person  or  entity  entitled   thereto   in
14    accordance  with  standards  of the Child Support Enforcement
15    Program established under Title IV-D of the  Social  Security
16    Act.   The  clerk shall notify the Department or the Attorney
17    General of the date of receipt and amount thereof at the time
18    of  transmittal.   Where  the  clerk  has  entered  into   an
19    agreement  of cooperation with the Department or the Attorney
20    General to record the  terms  of  child  support  orders  and
21    payments  made  thereunder  directly  into  the IV-D Agency's
22    Department's automated  data  processing  system,  the  clerk
23    shall  account  for,  transmit and otherwise distribute child
24    support payments in accordance with such agreement in lieu of
25    the requirements contained herein.
26    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
27        (750 ILCS 15/3) (from Ch. 40, par. 1106)
28        Sec. 3.  At any time before the trial, upon motion of the
29    State's Attorney, or of the Attorney General  if  the  action
30    has  been  instituted  by  his office, and upon notice to the
31    defendant, or at the time of arraignment or as a condition of
32    the postponement of arraignment, the court at  any  time  may
33    enter  such  temporary  order as may seem just, providing for
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 1    the support or maintenance of the spouse or child or children
 2    of the defendant, or both, pendente lite.
 3        The Court shall determine the amount of child support  by
 4    using  the  guidelines  and standards set forth in subsection
 5    (a) of Section 505 and  in  Section  505.2  of  the  Illinois
 6    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
 7        The Court shall determine the amount of maintenance using
 8    the  standards  set  forth  in  Section  504  of the Illinois
 9    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
10        The court may for  violation  of  any  order  under  this
11    Section  punish  the offender as for a contempt of court, but
12    no pendente lite order shall remain in  force  for  a  longer
13    term  than  4  months, or after the discharge of any panel of
14    jurors  summoned  for  service  thereafter  in  such   court,
15    whichever is the sooner.
16        Any  new  or  existing support order entered by the court
17    under this  Section  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  series  of
18    judgments   against  the  person  obligated  to  pay  support
19    thereunder, each such judgment to be in the  amount  of  each
20    payment  or  installment of support and each such judgment to
21    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
22    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
23    Each such judgment shall have  the  full  force,  effect  and
24    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
25    ability  to  be  enforced.   Any  such judgment is subject to
26    modification or termination only in accordance  with  Section
27    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
28    A  lien  arises  by  operation  of  law  against the real and
29    personal  property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for   each
30    installment  of  overdue  support  owed  by  the noncustodial
31    parent.
32        A one-time interest charge of 20% is imposable  upon  the
33    amount  of  past-due child support owed on July 1, 1988 which
34    has accrued under a support order entered by the court.   The
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 1    charge  shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of
 2    Section 10-21 of the Illinois Public Aid Code  and  shall  be
 3    enforced  by  the  court  upon  petition.    On and after the
 4    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997,  the  Attorney
 5    General  may collect, on behalf of the Illinois Department of
 6    Public Aid,  any  charge  imposed  in  accordance  with  this
 7    paragraph.   Nothing  in this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be
 8    construed to affect the validity of  any  charge  imposed  in
 9    accordance with this paragraph.
10        All  orders  for support, when entered or modified, shall
11    include a provision requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to
12    notify  the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
13    child and spouse support services  under  Article  X  of  the
14    Illinois  Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295
15    of the Attorney  General  Act,  the  Illinois  Department  of
16    Public  Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory Act
17    of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and  after  that  date),
18    within  7  days,  (i)  of  the  name  and  address of any new
19    employer  of  the  non-custodial  parent,  (ii)  whether  the
20    non-custodial parent has access to health insurance  coverage
21    through  the employer or other group coverage and, if so, the
22    policy name and number and the names of persons covered under
23    the policy, and (iii)  of  any  new  residential  or  mailing
24    address  or telephone number of the non-custodial parent.  In
25    any subsequent action to enforce  a  support  order,  upon  a
26    sufficient  showing  that  a diligent effort has been made to
27    ascertain the location of the non-custodial  parent,  service
28    of  process  or provision of notice necessary in the case may
29    be made at the last known address of the non-custodial parent
30    in any  manner  expressly  provided  by  the  Code  of  Civil
31    Procedure  or this Act, which service shall be sufficient for
32    purposes of due process.
33        An order for support shall include a date  on  which  the
34    current  support obligation terminates.  The termination date
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 1    shall be no earlier than the date on which the child  covered
 2    by  the order will attain the age of majority or is otherwise
 3    emancipated. The order  for  support  shall  state  that  the
 4    termination  date  does  not  apply to any arrearage that may
 5    remain unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this paragraph  shall
 6    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
 8        (750 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 40, par. 1107)
 9        Sec. 4.  Whenever a fine is imposed it may be directed by
10    the  court to be paid, in whole or in part, to the spouse, or
11    if the support of a minor child or children is  involved,  to
12    the  clerk,  probation officer, the Court Service Division of
13    the County Department of Public Aid in counties of 3  million
14    or  more  population  or to the Illinois Department of Public
15    Aid, the Attorney General, or a local governmental unit if  a
16    recipient  of  public  aid  is  involved,  in accordance with
17    Section 2.1, as the case requires, to be  disbursed  by  such
18    officers,  agency or governmental unit under the terms of the
19    order. However, before the trial  with  the  consent  of  the
20    defendant,  or  at the trial on entry of a plea of guilty, or
21    after conviction, instead of imposing the penalty provided in
22    this  Act,  or  in  addition  thereto,  the  court   in   its
23    discretion,  having  regard  to  the  circumstances  and  the
24    financial  ability  or earning capacity of the defendant, may
25    make an order, subject to change by the court  from  time  to
26    time as circumstances may require, directing the defendant to
27    pay  a  certain  sum  periodically for a term not exceeding 3
28    years to the spouse or, if the support of a  minor  child  or
29    children  is  involved,  to the clerk, probation officer, the
30    Court Service Division of the County Department of Public Aid
31    in counties of  3  million  or  more  population  or  to  the
32    Illinois Department of Public Aid, the Attorney General, or a
33    local  governmental  unit  if  a  recipient  of public aid is
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 1    involved  in  accordance  with  Section  2.1,  as  the   case
 2    requires,  to  be  disbursed  by  such  officers,  agency  or
 3    governmental unit under the terms of the order.
 4        The  Court shall determine the amount of child support by
 5    using the standards set forth in subsection  (a)  of  Section
 6    505  and  in  Section  505.2  of  the  Illinois  Marriage and
 7    Dissolution of Marriage Act.
 8        The Court shall determine the amount of maintenance using
 9    the standards set  forth  in  Section  504  of  the  Illinois
10    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
11        The  court may also relieve the defendant from custody on
12    probation for the period fixed in the order or judgment  upon
13    his  or  her  entering  into  a recognizance, with or without
14    surety, in such sum as the court  orders  and  approves.  The
15    condition  of  the  recognizance  shall  be  such that if the
16    defendant makes his  or  her  personal  appearance  in  court
17    whenever ordered to do so by the court, during such period as
18    may  be  so fixed, and further complies with the terms of the
19    order of support, or of any subsequent modification  thereof,
20    then  the recognizance shall be void; otherwise in full force
21    and effect.
22        Any new or existing support order entered  by  the  court
23    under  this  Section  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  series of
24    judgments  against  the  person  obligated  to  pay   support
25    thereunder,  each  such  judgment to be in the amount of each
26    payment or installment of support and each such  judgment  to
27    be deemed entered as of the date the corresponding payment or
28    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
29    Each  such  judgment  shall  have  the full force, effect and
30    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
31    ability to be enforced.  Any  such  judgment  is  subject  to
32    modification  or  termination only in accordance with Section
33    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
34        A one-time charge of 20% is imposable upon the amount  of
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 1    past-due child support owed on July 1, 1988 which has accrued
 2    under a support order entered by the court.  The charge shall
 3    be imposed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-21
 4    of  the Illinois Public Aid Code and shall be enforced by the
 5    court upon petition. On and after the effective date of  this
 6    amendatory  Act of 1997, the Attorney General may collect, on
 7    behalf of the Illinois Department of Public Aid,  any  charge
 8    imposed  in  accordance with this paragraph.  Nothing in this
 9    amendatory Act of 1997  shall  be  construed  to  affect  the
10    validity  of  any  charge  imposed  in  accordance  with this
11    paragraph.
12        An order for support entered or modified  in  a  case  in
13    which  a party is receiving child and spouse support services
14    under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  or  under
15    Sections  7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act shall
16    include a provision requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to
17    notify  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public Aid (before the
18    effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997)  or  the
19    Attorney  General (on and after that date), within 7 days, of
20    the name and address of any new employer of the non-custodial
21    parent, whether the non-custodial parent has access to health
22    insurance  coverage  through  the  employer  or  other  group
23    coverage, and, if so, the policy  name  and  number  and  the
24    names of persons covered under the policy.
25        An  order  for  support shall include a date on which the
26    current support obligation terminates.  The termination  date
27    shall  be no earlier than the date on which the child covered
28    by the order will attain the age of majority or is  otherwise
29    emancipated.    The  order  for  support shall state that the
30    termination date does not apply to  any  arrearage  that  may
31    remain  unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall
32    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
33    (Source: P.A. 88-307.)
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 1        (750 ILCS 15/4.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 1107.1)
 2        Sec. 4.1.  Withholding of Income  to  Secure  Payment  of
 3    Support.
 4    (A)  Definitions.
 5        (1)  "Order  for  support"  means  any order of the court
 6    which provides for periodic payment of funds for the  support
 7    of  a  child or maintenance of a spouse, whether temporary or
 8    final, and includes any such order which provides for:
 9             (a)  Modification or resumption of,  or  payment  of
10        arrearage accrued under, a previously existing order;
11             (b)  Reimbursement of support; or
12             (c)  Enrollment  in  a health insurance plan that is
13        available to the obligor through  an  employer  or  labor
14        union or trade union.
15        (2)  "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
16    obligations  as determined by the court and incorporated into
17    an order for support.
18        (2.5)  "Business day" means a day on which State  offices
19    are open for regular business.
20        (3)  "Delinquency"  means  any payment under an order for
21    support which becomes due and remains unpaid after  entry  of
22    the order for support.
23        (4)  "Income"  means  any  form of periodic payment to an
24    individual, regardless of source, including, but not  limited
25    to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
26    contractor,   workers'   compensation,  disability,  annuity,
27    pension,  and  retirement  benefits,  lottery  prize  awards,
28    insurance proceeds,  vacation  pay,  bonuses,  profit-sharing
29    payments,  interest,  and  any  other  payments,  made by any
30    person, private entity, federal or state government, any unit
31    of local government, school district or any entity created by
32    Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
33             (a)  Any amounts required by  law  to  be  withheld,
34        other  than  creditor  claims, including, but not limited
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 1        to, federal, State and local taxes, Social  Security  and
 2        other retirement and disability contributions;
 3             (b)  Union dues;
 4             (c)  Any  amounts  exempted  by the federal Consumer
 5        Credit Protection Act;
 6             (d)  Public assistance payments; and
 7             (e)  Unemployment  insurance  benefits   except   as
 8        provided by law.
 9        Any  other  State  or  local  laws  which limit or exempt
10    income or the amount or percentage  of  income  that  can  be
11    withheld shall not apply.
12        (5)  "Obligor"  means  the  individual who owes a duty to
13    make payments under an order for support.
14        (6)  "Obligee" means the individual to  whom  a  duty  of
15    support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
16        (7)  "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
17        (8)  "Public  office"  means  any elected official or any
18    State or local agency which is or may become  responsible  by
19    law  for enforcement of, or which is or may become authorized
20    to enforce, an order for support, including, but not  limited
21    to:  the  Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Public
22    Aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services, the  Illinois
23    Department  of  Children and Family Services, and the various
24    State's  Attorneys,  Clerks  of   the   Circuit   Court   and
25    supervisors of general assistance.
26        (9)  "Premium"  means  the  dollar  amount  for which the
27    obligor is liable to his employer or  labor  union  or  trade
28    union and which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in
29    a  health  insurance  plan  that  is available to the obligor
30    through an employer or labor union or trade union.
31    (B)  Entry of Order for Support Containing Income Withholding
32    Provisions; Income Withholding Notice.
33        (1)  In addition to  any  content  required  under  other
34    laws,  every  order  for  support entered on or after July 1,
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 1    1997, shall:
 2             (a)  Require an  income  withholding  notice  to  be
 3        prepared  and  served  immediately  upon any payor of the
 4        obligor by the obligee or public office, unless a written
 5        agreement is reached between and signed by  both  parties
 6        providing  for  an  alternative arrangement, approved and
 7        entered into the  record  by  the  court,  which  ensures
 8        payment  of support.  In that case, the order for support
 9        shall provide that an income withholding notice is to  be
10        prepared   and   served   only  if  the  obligor  becomes
11        delinquent in paying the order for support; and
12             (b)  Contain  a  dollar  amount  to  be  paid  until
13        payment in full of any  delinquency  that  accrues  after
14        entry  of  the order for support.  The amount for payment
15        of delinquency shall not be less than 20% of the total of
16        the current support amount and  the  amount  to  be  paid
17        periodically  for  payment of any arrearage stated in the
18        order for support; and
19             (c)  Include the obligor's Social  Security  Number,
20        which  the  obligor  shall  disclose to the court. If the
21        obligor is not a United States citizen, the obligor shall
22        disclose to the court, and the court shall include in the
23        order  for  support,  the  obligor's  alien  registration
24        number,  passport  number,  and  home  country's   social
25        security or national health number, if applicable.
26        (2)  At  the  time  the order for support is entered, the
27    Clerk of the Circuit Court shall provide a copy of the  order
28    to the obligor and shall make copies available to the obligee
29    and public office.
30        (3)  The income withholding notice shall:
31             (a)  Be  in  the  standard  format prescribed by the
32        federal Department of Health and Human Services; and
33             (b)  Direct any payor to withhold the dollar  amount
34        required for current support under the order for support;
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 1        and
 2             (c)  Direct  any payor to withhold the dollar amount
 3        required to be paid  periodically  under  the  order  for
 4        support for payment of the amount of any arrearage stated
 5        in the order for support; and
 6             (d)  Direct  any payor or labor union or trade union
 7        to enroll a child as a beneficiary of a health  insurance
 8        plan and withhold or cause to be withheld, if applicable,
 9        any required premiums; and
10             (e)  State   the   amount   of   the   payor  income
11        withholding fee specified under this Section; and
12             (f)  State that the amount  actually  withheld  from
13        the  obligor's  income  for  support  and other purposes,
14        including the payor withholding fee specified under  this
15        Section,  may  not  be  in  excess  of the maximum amount
16        permitted under the federal  Consumer  Credit  Protection
17        Act; and
18             (g)  State the duties of the payor and the fines and
19        penalties for failure to withhold and pay over income and
20        for  discharging,  disciplining,  refusing  to  hire,  or
21        otherwise  penalizing  the obligor because of the duty to
22        withhold and pay over income under this Section; and
23             (h)  State the rights, remedies, and duties  of  the
24        obligor under this Section; and
25             (i)  Include  the  obligor's Social Security Number;
26        and
27             (j)  Include the date that withholding  for  current
28        support   terminates,   which   shall   be  the  date  of
29        termination of the current support obligation  set  forth
30        in the order for support.
31        (4)  The  accrual  of  a  delinquency  as a condition for
32    service of an income withholding notice, under the  exception
33    to immediate withholding in paragraph (1) of this subsection,
34    shall  apply  only  to  the  initial  service  of  an  income
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 1    withholding notice on a payor of the obligor.
 2        (5)  Notwithstanding    the    exception   to   immediate
 3    withholding contained in paragraph (1) of this subsection, if
 4    the court finds at the time of any hearing that an  arrearage
 5    has  accrued,  the  court shall order immediate service of an
 6    income withholding notice upon the payor.
 7        (6)  If the order for support,  under  the  exception  to
 8    immediate  withholding  contained  in  paragraph  (1) of this
 9    subsection, provides that an income withholding notice is  to
10    be prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent
11    in  paying  the  order for support, the obligor may execute a
12    written  waiver  of  that  condition  and  request  immediate
13    service on the payor.
14        (7)  The obligee or public office may  serve  the  income
15    withholding  notice  on  the  payor  or  its  superintendent,
16    manager,  or  other  agent by ordinary mail or certified mail
17    return receipt requested, by facsimile transmission or  other
18    electronic  means,  by  personal  delivery,  or by any method
19    provided by law for service of a summons.   At  the  time  of
20    service  on  the  payor  and  as  notice that withholding has
21    commenced, the obligee or public office shall serve a copy of
22    the income withholding notice on the obligor by ordinary mail
23    addressed to his  or  her  last  known  address.   Proofs  of
24    service  on the payor and the obligor shall be filed with the
25    Clerk of the Circuit Court.
26        (8)  At any time after the initial service of  an  income
27    withholding notice under this Section, any other payor of the
28    obligor may be served with the same income withholding notice
29    without further notice to the obligor.
30        (9)  (4)  New  service of an income order for withholding
31    notice is not required in  order  to  resume  withholding  of
32    income  in  the  case  of  an obligor with respect to whom an
33    income order for withholding notice was previously served  on
34    the  payor if withholding of income was terminated because of
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 1    an interruption in the obligor's employment of less than  180
 2    days.
 3    (C)  Income Withholding After Accrual of Delinquency.
 4        (1)  Whenever  an  obligor  accrues  a  delinquency,  the
 5    obligee  or  public  office  may  prepare  and serve upon the
 6    obligor's payor an income withholding notice that:
 7             (a)  Contains   the   information   required   under
 8        paragraph (3) of subsection (B); and
 9             (b)  Contains a computation of the period and  total
10        amount  of  the delinquency as of the date of the notice;
11        and
12             (c)  Directs the payor to withhold the dollar amount
13        required to be withheld periodically under the order  for
14        support for payment of the delinquency.
15        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
16    of  the income withholding notice shall be served as provided
17    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
18        (3)  The obligor may contest withholding commenced  under
19    this  subsection  by filing a petition to contest withholding
20    with the Clerk of the Circuit  Court  within  20  days  after
21    service  of  a  copy  of the income withholding notice on the
22    obligor. However, the grounds for  the  petition  to  contest
23    withholding shall be limited to:
24             (a)  A dispute concerning the existence or amount of
25        the delinquency; or
26             (b)  The identity of the obligor.
27        The  Clerk  of the Circuit Court shall notify the obligor
28    and the obligee or public office of the time and place of the
29    hearing on the petition to contest  withholding.   The  court
30    shall   hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
31    subsection (F).
32    (D)  Initiated Withholding.
33        (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
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 1    if the court has not required that  income  withholding  take
 2    effect immediately, the obligee or public office may initiate
 3    withholding, regardless of whether a delinquency has accrued,
 4    by  preparing and serving an income withholding notice on the
 5    payor that contains the information required under  paragraph
 6    (3)  of  subsection  (B) and states that the parties' written
 7    agreement providing an alternative arrangement  to  immediate
 8    withholding  under  paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer
 9    ensures payment of support and the reason or reasons  why  it
10    does not.
11        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
12    of  the income withholding notice shall be served as provided
13    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
14        (3)  The obligor may contest withholding commenced  under
15    this  subsection  by filing a petition to contest withholding
16    with the Clerk of the Circuit  Court  within  20  days  after
17    service  of  a  copy  of the income withholding notice on the
18    obligor. However, the  grounds  for  the  petition  shall  be
19    limited to a dispute concerning:
20             (a)  whether    the   parties'   written   agreement
21        providing  an  alternative   arrangement   to   immediate
22        withholding   under   paragraph  (1)  of  subsection  (B)
23        continues to ensure payment of support; or
24             (b)  the identity of the obligor.
25        It shall not be grounds for filing a  petition  that  the
26    obligor  has  made  all  payments  due  by  the  date  of the
27    petition.
28        (4)  If  the  obligor   files   a   petition   contesting
29    withholding within the 20-day period required under paragraph
30    (3),  the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify the obligor
31    and the obligee or public office, as appropriate, of the time
32    and place of the hearing on the petition.   The  court  shall
33    hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to the provisions of subsection
34    (F). regular or facsimile regular or facsimile
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 1    (E)  Duties of Payor.
 2        (1)  It shall be the duty  of  any  payor  who  has  been
 3    served  with  an  income withholding notice to deduct and pay
 4    over income as provided in this subsection.  The payor  shall
 5    deduct  the  amount  designated  in  the  income  withholding
 6    notice,  as  supplemented  by any notice provided pursuant to
 7    paragraph (6) of subsection (G), beginning no later than  the
 8    next  payment of income which is payable or creditable to the
 9    obligor that occurs 14 days following  the  date  the  income
10    withholding  notice  was  mailed,  sent by facsimile or other
11    electronic means, or  placed  for  personal  delivery  to  or
12    service  on  the  payor.   The  payor may combine all amounts
13    withheld for the benefit of an obligee or public office  into
14    a  single  payment and transmit the payment with a listing of
15    obligors from whom withholding has been effected.  The  payor
16    shall pay the amount withheld to the obligee or public office
17    within  7  business days after the date the amount would (but
18    for the duty to withhold income) have been paid  or  credited
19    to  the  obligor.  If  the  payor  knowingly fails to pay any
20    amount withheld to the obligee  or  public  office  within  7
21    business  days after the date the amount would have been paid
22    or credited to the obligor, the payor shall pay a penalty  of
23    $100 for each day that the withheld amount is not paid to the
24    obligee  or public office after the period of 7 business days
25    has expired.  The failure  of  a  payor,  on  more  than  one
26    occasion,  to  pay  amounts withheld to the obligee or public
27    office within 7 business days after the date the amount would
28    have  been  paid  or  credited  to  the  obligor  creates   a
29    presumption  that  the payor knowingly failed to pay over the
30    amounts.  This penalty, along with any amounts required to be
31    withheld and paid, may be collected in a civil  action  which
32    may  be  brought against the payor in favor of the obligee or
33    public office. A finding of a payor's  nonperformance  within
34    the  time required under this Section must be documented by a
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 1    certified mail return receipt showing  the  date  the  income
 2    order  for  withholding  notice  was served on the payor. For
 3    purposes  of  this  Section,  a  withheld  amount  shall   be
 4    considered  paid  by  a payor on the date it is mailed by the
 5    payor, or on the date an electronic  funds  transfer  of  the
 6    amount  has  been  initiated  by  the  payor,  or on the date
 7    delivery of the amount has been initiated by the  payor.  For
 8    each deduction, the payor shall provide the obligee or public
 9    office,  at the time of transmittal, with the date the amount
10    would (but for the duty to withhold income) have been paid or
11    credited to the obligor. The payor shall not be  required  to
12    vary  the  normal  pay  and  disbursement  cycles in order to
13    comply with this paragraph.
14        Upon receipt of an income  withholding  notice  requiring
15    that  a  minor  child  be  named as a beneficiary of a health
16    insurance plan available through an employer or  labor  union
17    or  trade  union,  the employer or labor union or trade union
18    shall immediately enroll the minor child as a beneficiary  in
19    the   health   insurance   plan   designated  by  the  income
20    withholding notice. The employer shall withhold any  required
21    premiums  and  pay  over  any  amounts  so  withheld  and any
22    additional amounts the employer pays to the insurance carrier
23    in a timely manner.  The employer or  labor  union  or  trade
24    union shall mail to the obligee, within 15 days of enrollment
25    or  upon request, notice of the date of coverage, information
26    on the dependent coverage plan, and all  forms  necessary  to
27    obtain  reimbursement  for  covered  health expenses, such as
28    would be made available to a new employee.  When an order for
29    dependent coverage is in effect and the insurance coverage is
30    terminated or changed for any reason, the employer  or  labor
31    union  or trade union shall notify the obligee within 10 days
32    of the termination  or  change  date  along  with  notice  of
33    conversion privileges.
34        For withholding of income, the payor shall be entitled to
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 1    receive  a fee not to exceed $5 per month or the actual check
 2    processing cost to be taken from the income to be paid to the
 3    obligor.
 4        (2)  Whenever the obligor is no longer  receiving  income
 5    from  the  payor, the payor shall return a copy of the income
 6    withholding notice to the obligee or public office and  shall
 7    provide   information  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  this
 8    Section.
 9        (3)  Withholding of income under this  Section  shall  be
10    made  without regard to any prior or subsequent garnishments,
11    attachments,  wage  assignments,  or  any  other  claims   of
12    creditors.   Withholding  of  income under this Section shall
13    not be in excess of the maximum amounts permitted  under  the
14    federal Consumer Credit Protection Act. If the payor has been
15    served   with   more   than  one  income  withholding  notice
16    pertaining to the same  obligor,  the  payor  shall  allocate
17    income  available  for  withholding  on a proportionate share
18    basis, giving priority to current support payments.  If there
19    is any income available for withholding after withholding for
20    all current support obligations, the payor shall allocate the
21    income to past due support payments ordered in cases in which
22    cash assistance under the Illinois Public  Aid  Code  is  not
23    being  provided  to  the obligee and then to past due support
24    payments ordered in cases in which cash assistance under  the
25    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code is being provided to the obligee,
26    both on a proportionate share basis.  A  payor  who  complies
27    with an income withholding notice that is regular on its face
28    shall  not  be subject to civil liability with respect to any
29    individual, any agency, or any creditor of  the  obligor  for
30    conduct in compliance with the notice.
31        (4)  No payor shall discharge, discipline, refuse to hire
32    or  otherwise  penalize  any  obligor  because of the duty to
33    withhold income.
34    (F)  Petitions to Contest Withholding or to Modify,  Suspend,
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 1    Terminate, or Correct Income Withholding Notices.
 2        (1)  When   an   obligor  files  a  petition  to  contest
 3    withholding, the court, after  due  notice  to  all  parties,
 4    shall  hear the matter as soon as practicable and shall enter
 5    an order granting or denying relief, ordering service  of  an
 6    amended  income  withholding  notice,  where  applicable,  or
 7    otherwise resolving the matter.
 8        The  court shall deny the obligor's petition if the court
 9    finds that when the income  withholding  notice  was  mailed,
10    sent  by facsimile transmission or other electronic means, or
11    placed for personal delivery to or service on the payor:
12             (a)  A delinquency existed; or
13             (b)  The parties'  written  agreement  providing  an
14        alternative  arrangement  to  immediate withholding under
15        paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer ensured payment
16        of support.
17        (2)  At any time, an obligor, obligee, public  office  or
18    Clerk of the Circuit Court may petition the court to:
19             (a)  Modify,   suspend   or   terminate  the  income
20        withholding notice because of a modification,  suspension
21        or termination of the underlying order for support; or
22             (b)  Modify  the  amount of income to be withheld to
23        reflect payment in full or in part of the delinquency  or
24        arrearage by income withholding or otherwise; or
25             (c)  Suspend  the  income withholding notice because
26        of inability to deliver income withheld  to  the  obligee
27        due to the obligee's failure to provide a mailing address
28        or other means of delivery.
29        (3)  At  any  time  an  obligor may petition the court to
30    correct a term contained in an income withholding  notice  to
31    conform  to  that  stated in the underlying order for support
32    for:
33             (a)  The amount of current support;
34             (b)  The amount of the arrearage;
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 1             (c)  The  periodic  amount  for   payment   of   the
 2        arrearage; or
 3             (d)  The   periodic   amount   for  payment  of  the
 4        delinquency.
 5        (4)  The obligor, obligee or public office shall serve on
 6    the payor, in the  manner  provided  for  service  of  income
 7    withholding  notices  in  paragraph  (7) of subsection (B), a
 8    copy of any order entered pursuant to  this  subsection  that
 9    affects the duties of the payor.
10        (5)  At any time, a public office or Clerk of the Circuit
11    Court may serve a notice on the payor to:
12             (a)  Cease  withholding  of  income  for  payment of
13        current support for a child when the  support  obligation
14        for  that  child has automatically ceased under the order
15        for support through emancipation or otherwise; or
16             (b)  Cease withholding  of  income  for  payment  of
17        delinquency   or   arrearage   when  the  delinquency  or
18        arrearage has been paid in full.
19        (6)  The notice provided for under paragraph (5) of  this
20    subsection  shall  be  served  on  the  payor  in  the manner
21    provided  for  service  of  income  withholding  notices   in
22    paragraph (7) of subsection (B), and a copy shall be provided
23    to the obligor and the obligee.
24        (7)  The  income  withholding notice shall continue to be
25    binding upon the payor until service  of  an  amended  income
26    withholding  notice  or  any  order  of  the  court or notice
27    entered or provided for under this subsection.
28    (G)  Additional Duties.
29        (1)  An  obligee  who  is  receiving  income  withholding
30    payments under this Section shall notify the  payor,  if  the
31    obligee receives the payments directly from the payor, or the
32    public   office  or  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  as
33    appropriate, of any change of address within 7 days  of  such
34    change.
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 1        (2)  An  obligee  who  is a recipient of public aid shall
 2    send a copy of any income withholding notice  served  by  the
 3    obligee  to  the  Attorney  General Division of Child Support
 4    Enforcement of the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
 5        (3)  Each obligor shall notify the  obligee,  the  public
 6    office,  and  the Clerk of the Circuit Court of any change of
 7    address within 7 days.
 8        (4)  An obligor whose income is being withheld or who has
 9    been served with a notice of  delinquency  pursuant  to  this
10    Section  shall notify the obligee, the public office, and the
11    Clerk of the Circuit Court of any new payor, within 7 days.
12        (5)  When the Office of  the  Attorney  General  Illinois
13    Department  of  Public Aid is no longer authorized to receive
14    payments for the obligee, it shall, within 7 days, notify the
15    payor or, where appropriate, the Clerk of the Circuit  Court,
16    to redirect income withholding payments to the obligee.
17        (6)  The obligee or public office shall provide notice to
18    the payor and Clerk of the Circuit Court of any other support
19    payment  made,  including but not limited to, a set-off under
20    federal and State law or partial payment of  the  delinquency
21    or arrearage, or both.
22        (7)  Any  public  office  and  Clerk of the Circuit Court
23    which collects, disburses or receives  payments  pursuant  to
24    income withholding notices shall maintain complete, accurate,
25    and  clear  records  of all payments and their disbursements.
26    Certified copies of payment records maintained  by  a  public
27    office  or  Clerk of the Circuit Court shall, without further
28    proof, be admitted into evidence  in  any  legal  proceedings
29    under this Section.
30        (8)  The  Illinois  Department  of Public Aid (before the
31    effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997)  or  the
32    Attorney  General  (on  and  after  that  date)  shall design
33    suggested legal forms for proceeding under this  Section  and
34    shall   make   available   to   the  courts  such  forms  and
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 1    informational materials which  describe  the  procedures  and
 2    remedies  set forth herein for distribution to all parties in
 3    support actions.
 4        (9)  At the time of transmitting  each  support  payment,
 5    the  clerk  of the circuit court shall provide the obligee or
 6    public office, as appropriate, with any information furnished
 7    by the payor as to the date the amount  would  (but  for  the
 8    duty  to  withhold  income) have been paid or credited to the
 9    obligor.
10    (H)  Penalties.
11        (1)  Where a payor wilfully fails to withhold or pay over
12    income pursuant  to  a  properly  served  income  withholding
13    notice,  or wilfully discharges, disciplines, refuses to hire
14    or otherwise penalizes an obligor as prohibited by subsection
15    (E), or otherwise fails to comply with any duties imposed  by
16    this  Section,  the  obligee,  public  office  or obligor, as
17    appropriate, may file a complaint with the court against  the
18    payor.   The  clerk  of  the  circuit  court shall notify the
19    obligee or public office, as appropriate, and the obligor and
20    payor of the time and place of the hearing on the  complaint.
21    The  court  shall  resolve any factual dispute including, but
22    not limited to, a denial that the payor is paying or has paid
23    income to the obligor.   Upon  a  finding  in  favor  of  the
24    complaining party, the court:
25             (a)  Shall enter judgment and direct the enforcement
26        thereof  for  the  total  amount  that the payor wilfully
27        failed to withhold or pay over; and
28             (b)  May order employment  or  reinstatement  of  or
29        restitution  to  the  obligor, or both, where the obligor
30        has been discharged, disciplined,  denied  employment  or
31        otherwise  penalized  by  the payor and may impose a fine
32        upon the payor not to exceed $200.
33        (2)  Any obligee, public office or obligor  who  wilfully
34    initiates  a  false  proceeding  under  this  Section  or who
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 1    wilfully fails  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this
 2    Section shall be punished as in cases of contempt of court.
 3    (I)  Alternative   Procedures   for   Service  of  an  Income
 4    Withholding Notice.
 5        (1)  The procedures of this subsection may be used in any
 6    matter to serve an income withholding notice on a payor if:
 7             (a)  For  any  reason  the  most  recent  order  for
 8        support entered does not contain the  income  withholding
 9        provisions required under subsection (B), irrespective of
10        whether  a  separate  order  for  withholding was entered
11        prior to July 1, 1997; and
12             (b)  The obligor has  accrued  a  delinquency  after
13        entry of the most recent order for support.
14        (2)  The obligee or public office shall prepare and serve
15    the   income   withholding  notice  in  accordance  with  the
16    provisions of subsection (C), except that  the  notice  shall
17    contain  a  periodic  amount  for  payment of the delinquency
18    equal to 20% of the total of the current support  amount  and
19    the  amount  to  be  paid  periodically  for  payment  of any
20    arrearage stated in the most recent order for support.
21        (3)  If the  obligor  requests  in  writing  that  income
22    withholding  become effective prior to the obligor accruing a
23    delinquency under the most  recent  order  for  support,  the
24    obligee  or  public  office  may  prepare and serve an income
25    withholding notice on the payor  as  provided  in  subsection
26    (B).   In  addition to filing proofs of service of the income
27    withholding notice on the payor and the obligor, the  obligee
28    or  public  office shall file a copy of the obligor's written
29    request for income withholding with the Clerk of the  Circuit
30    Court.
31        (4)  All  other  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be
32    applicable  with respect to the provisions of this subsection
33    (I).
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 1    (J)  Remedies in Addition to Other Laws.
 2        (1)  The rights, remedies, duties and  penalties  created
 3    by  this  Section  are in addition to and not in substitution
 4    for any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties  created
 5    by any other law.
 6        (2)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  as
 7    invalidating  any  assignment  of  wages or benefits executed
 8    prior to January 1, 1984 or any order for withholding  served
 9    prior to July 1, 1997.
10    (Source: P.A.   89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;
11    90-425, eff. 8-15-97; revised 9-29-97.)
12        (750 ILCS 15/11) (from Ch. 40, par. 1114)
13        Sec.  11.  (a)  In  all  cases  instituted   before   the
14    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 by the Illinois
15    Department  of  Public  Aid  on  behalf of a child or spouse,
16    other than one receiving  a  grant  of  financial  aid  under
17    Article  IV  of The Illinois Public Aid Code, on whose behalf
18    an  application  has  been  made  and  approved  for  support
19    services as provided by Section 10-1 of that Code, the  court
20    shall  impose  a  collection fee on the individual who owes a
21    child or spouse support obligation in an amount equal to  10%
22    of  the amount so owed as long as such collection is required
23    by federal law, which fee shall be in addition to the support
24    obligation.   The  imposition  of  such  fee  shall   be   in
25    accordance with provisions of Title IV, Part D, of the Social
26    Security  Act  and  regulations  duly promulgated thereunder.
27    The fee shall be payable to the clerk of  the  circuit  court
28    for  transmittal to the Illinois Department of Public Aid and
29    shall continue until support services are terminated by  that
30    Department, except as otherwise provided in this subsection.
31        If  a collection fee is imposed under this subsection and
32    if, on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
33    1997,  the  child  or  spouse receives support services under
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 1    Section 7.5 of the Attorney General Act,  the  fee  shall  be
 2    payable  to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to
 3    the  Attorney  General  and  shall  continue  until   support
 4    services  are terminated by the Attorney General.  Nothing in
 5    this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be construed to affect  the
 6    validity of any collection fee imposed in accordance with the
 7    first paragraph of this subsection.
 8        (b)  In  all  cases  instituted on or after the effective
 9    date of this amendatory Act of 1997 by the  Attorney  General
10    on  behalf  of  a child or spouse, other than one receiving a
11    grant of financial aid  under  Article  IV  of  the  Illinois
12    Public Aid Code, on whose behalf an application has been made
13    and  approved for support services as provided by Section 7.5
14    of the  Attorney  General  Act,  the  court  shall  impose  a
15    collection  fee  on the individual who owes a child or spouse
16    support obligation in an amount equal to 10% of the amount so
17    owed as long as such collection is required by  federal  law,
18    which  fee  shall  be  in addition to the support obligation.
19    The imposition of  such  fee  shall  be  in  accordance  with
20    provisions  of  Title  IV, Part D, of the Social Security Act
21    and regulations duly promulgated thereunder.  The  fee  shall
22    be  payable to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal
23    to the Attorney General  and  shall  continue  until  support
24    services are terminated by the Attorney General.
25    (Source: P.A. 82-979.)
26        (750 ILCS 15/12) (from Ch. 40, par. 1115)
27        Sec.  12.  (a)  Whenever it is determined in a proceeding
28    to establish  or  enforce  a  child  support  or  maintenance
29    obligation  that  the  person  owing  a  duty  of  support is
30    unemployed, the court may order the person to seek employment
31    and report periodically to the court with a diary, listing or
32    other memorandum of his or her  efforts  in  accordance  with
33    such  order. Additionally, the court may order the unemployed
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 1    person to report to the Department of Employment Security for
 2    job search services or to make  application  with  the  local
 3    Jobs  Training  Partnership Act provider for participation in
 4    job search, training or work programs and where the  duty  of
 5    support  is  owed to a child receiving support services under
 6    Article X of the Illinois Public Aid Code or  under  Sections
 7    7.1  through  7.295  of the Attorney General Act, as amended,
 8    the court may order the unemployed person to  report  to  the
 9    Illinois   Department   of  Human  Services  Public  Aid  for
10    participation  in  job  search,  training  or  work  programs
11    established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the Illinois
12    Public Aid that Code.
13        (b)  Whenever  it  is  determined  that  a  person   owes
14    past-due  support  for  a  child and the parent with whom the
15    child is living, and the child is receiving assistance  under
16    the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  the  court shall order the
17    following at the request of the Illinois Department of Public
18    Aid (before the effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of
19    1997) or the Attorney General (on and after that date):
20             (1)  that  the  person  pay  the past-due support in
21        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
22             (2)  if  the  person  owing  past-due   support   is
23        unemployed,  is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is not
24        incapacitated, that the person participate  in  such  job
25        search,  training,  or  work  programs  established under
26        Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the  Illinois  Public  Aid
27        Code as the court deems appropriate.
28    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
29        Section 65.  The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act is
30    amended  by  changing  Sections  101,  102,  310,  and 605 as
31    follows:
32        (750 ILCS 22/101)
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 1        Sec. 101.  Definitions.  In this Act:
 2        "Child" means an individual, whether over  or  under  the
 3    age  of 18, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support
 4    by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be  the
 5    beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
 6        "Child-support  order" means a support order for a child,
 7    including a child who has attained the age of 18.
 8        "Duty  of  support"  means  an  obligation   imposed   or
 9    imposable  by  law to provide support for a child, spouse, or
10    former spouse including an unsatisfied obligation to  provide
11    support.
12        "Home state" means the state in which a child lived  with
13    a  parent  or  a  person  acting  as  parent  for  at least 6
14    consecutive months immediately preceding the time  of  filing
15    of  a  petition  or comparable pleading for support, and if a
16    child is less than 6 months old, the state in which the child
17    lived from birth with any of them.   A  period  of  temporary
18    absence  of  any of them is counted as part of the 6-month or
19    other period.
20        "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements
21    to money from any source and any other  property  subject  to
22    withholding for support under the law of this State.
23        "Income-withholding  order" means an order or other legal
24    process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as
25    defined by the Attorney General Act,  the  Illinois  Marriage
26    and  Dissolution  of  Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse
27    and Children Act, the  Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  and  the
28    Illinois  Parentage Act of 1984, to withhold support from the
29    income of the obligor.
30        "Initiating state" means a state from which a  proceeding
31    is forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for forwarding
32    to  a  responding  state under this Act or a law or procedure
33    substantially similar to this Act.
34        "Initiating tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in an
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 1    initiating state.
 2        "Issuing state" means  the  state  in  which  a  tribunal
 3    issues  a  support  order  or  renders a judgment determining
 4    parentage.
 5        "Issuing tribunal"  means  the  tribunal  that  issues  a
 6    support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.
 7        "Obligee" means:
 8             (i)  an  individual  to whom a duty of support is or
 9        is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a  support  order
10        has  been  issued or a judgment determining parentage has
11        been rendered;
12             (ii)  a state or political subdivision to which  the
13        rights under a duty of support or support order have been
14        assigned   or  which  has  independent  claims  based  on
15        financial assistance provided to an  individual  obligee;
16        or
17             (iii)  an  individual seeking a judgment determining
18        parentage of the individual's child.
19        "Obligor"  means  an  individual,  or  the  estate  of  a
20    decedent: (i)  who owes or  is  alleged  to  owe  a  duty  of
21    support;  (ii) who is alleged but has not been adjudicated to
22    be a parent of a child; or  (iii)   who  is  liable  under  a
23    support order.
24        "Register"  means  to  record a support order or judgment
25    determining parentage in the appropriate Registry of  Foreign
26    Support Orders.
27        "Registering  tribunal"  means  a  tribunal  in  which  a
28    support order is registered.
29        "Responding state" means a state in which a proceeding is
30    filed  or  to which a proceeding is forwarded for filing from
31    an initiating state under this Act  or  a  law  or  procedure
32    substantially similar to this Act.
33        "Responding  tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in a
34    responding state.
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 1        "Spousal-support order"  means  a  support  order  for  a
 2    spouse or former spouse of the obligor.
 3        "State"  means a state of the United States, the District
 4    of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States  Virgin  Islands,
 5    or  any  territory  or  insular  possession  subject  to  the
 6    jurisdiction of the United States.  The term includes:
 7             (i)  an Indian tribe; and
 8             (ii)  a  foreign jurisdiction that has enacted a law
 9        or established procedures for issuance and enforcement of
10        support orders which are  substantially  similar  to  the
11        procedures   under   this  Act,  the  Uniform  Reciprocal
12        Enforcement  of  Support  Act,  or  the  Revised  Uniform
13        Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.
14        "Support enforcement agency" means a public  official  or
15    agency authorized to seek:
16        (1)  enforcement  of  support  orders or laws relating to
17    the duty of support;
18        (2)  establishment or modification of child support;
19        (3)  determination of parentage; or
20        (4)  to locate obligors or their assets.
21        "Support order"  means  a  judgment,  decree,  or  order,
22    whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, for the
23    benefit  of  a  child,  a  spouse,  or a former spouse, which
24    provides for monetary support, health  care,  arrearages,  or
25    reimbursement,  and  may  include  related  costs  and  fees,
26    interest,  income  withholding,  attorney's  fees,  and other
27    relief.
28        "Tribunal"  means  a  court,  administrative  agency,  or
29    quasi-judicial entity authorized to  establish,  enforce,  or
30    modify support orders or to determine parentage.
31    (Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)
32        (750 ILCS 22/102)
33        Sec.  102.  Tribunal  of  State.   The circuit court is a
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 1    tribunal of this State. The Illinois Department of Public Aid
 2    is an initiating tribunal.  The Illinois Department of Public
 3    Aid is also a responding tribunal of this State to the extent
 4    that  it  can  administratively   establish   paternity   and
 5    establish,    modify,    and    enforce   an   administrative
 6    child-support order under  authority  of  Article  X  of  the
 7    Illinois   Public  Aid  Code.  The  Attorney  General  is  an
 8    initiating  tribunal.   The  Attorney  General  is   also   a
 9    responding  tribunal  of this State to the extent that it can
10    administratively establish paternity and  establish,  modify,
11    and  enforce  an administrative child support order under the
12    authority of the Attorney General Act.
13    (Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)
14        (750 ILCS 22/310)
15        Sec.  310.   Duties  of  the  state  information   agency
16    Illinois Department of Public Aid.
17        (a)  Before  the effective date of this amendatory Act of
18    1997, the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid  is  the  state
19    information   agency  under  this  Act.   On  and  after  the
20    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997,  the  Attorney
21    General is the state information agency under this Act.
22        (b)  The state information agency shall:
23             (1)  compile  and maintain a current list, including
24        addresses, of the tribunals  in  this  State  which  have
25        jurisdiction  under  this Act and any support enforcement
26        agencies in this State and transmit a copy to  the  state
27        information agency of every other state;
28             (2)  maintain  a  register  of tribunals and support
29        enforcement agencies received from other states;
30             (3)  forward to  the  appropriate  tribunal  in  the
31        place  in  this  State in which the individual obligee or
32        the obligor resides, or in which the  obligor's  property
33        is  believed  to  be  located, all documents concerning a
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 1        proceeding under this Act  received  from  an  initiating
 2        tribunal   or   the   state  information  agency  of  the
 3        initiating state; and
 4             (4)  obtain information concerning the  location  of
 5        the  obligor and the obligor's property within this State
 6        not exempt  from  execution,  by  such  means  as  postal
 7        verification  and  federal  or  state  locator  services,
 8        examination  of  telephone  directories, requests for the
 9        obligor's address  from  employers,  and  examination  of
10        governmental   records,  including,  to  the  extent  not
11        prohibited by other law, those relating to real property,
12        vital  statistics,  law  enforcement,   taxation,   motor
13        vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security.
14    (Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
15    by P.A. 88-691.)
16        (750 ILCS 22/605)
17        Sec. 605.  Notice of registration of order.
18        (a)  When  a  support  order  or income-withholding order
19    issued  in  another  state  is  registered,  the  registering
20    tribunal shall notify the nonregistering  party.  The  notice
21    must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the
22    documents and relevant information accompanying the order.
23        (b)  The notice must inform the nonregistering party:
24             (1)  that  a  registered  order is enforceable as of
25        the date of registration in the same manner as  an  order
26        issued by a tribunal of this State;
27             (2)  that  a  hearing  to  contest  the  validity or
28        enforcement of the registered  order  must  be  requested
29        within  20  days  after  the  date of mailing or personal
30        service of the notice;
31             (3)  that  failure  to  contest  the   validity   or
32        enforcement  of  the  registered order in a timely manner
33        will result in confirmation of the order and  enforcement
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 1        of  the  order  and  the alleged arrearages and precludes
 2        further contest of that order with respect to any  matter
 3        that could have been asserted; and
 4             (4)  of the amount of any alleged arrearages.
 5        (c)  Upon registration of an income-withholding order for
 6    enforcement,   the  registering  tribunal  shall  notify  the
 7    obligor's  employer  pursuant  to  Section  10-16.2  of   the
 8    Illinois  Public  Aid Code (before the effective date of this
 9    amendatory Act  of  1997),  Section  7.165  of  the  Attorney
10    General  Act  (on  and  after  the  effective  date  of  this
11    amendatory  Act  of  1997),  Section  706.1  of  the Illinois
12    Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, Section 4.1 of  the
13    Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, and Section 20 of the
14    Illinois Parentage Act of 1989.
15    (Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97)
16        Section  70.  The  Expedited Child Support Act of 1990 is
17    amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
18        (750 ILCS 25/5) (from Ch. 40, par. 2705)
19        Sec. 5.   Actions  subject  to  Expedited  Child  Support
20    Hearings.
21        (a)  The  Chief  Judge  of  each  Judicial  Circuit  that
22    establishes  a  System  shall  delegate to the Administrative
23    Hearing Officer the authority to hear the following actions:
24             (1)  Petitions for child  support  and  for  medical
25        support,  pursuant  to  Section  505.2  of  the  Illinois
26        Marriage   and   Dissolution   of   Marriage   Act,   for
27        post-judgment  dissolution  of marriage and post-judgment
28        parentage actions where child support or medical  support
29        was reserved or could not be ordered at the time of entry
30        of   the  judgment  because  the  court  lacked  personal
31        jurisdiction over the obligor.
32             (2)  Petitions for modification of child support and
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 1        medical support in post-judgment dissolution of  marriage
 2        and post-judgment parentage actions.
 3             (3)  Parentage  actions, including the establishment
 4        of  child  support  orders  after  parentage   has   been
 5        acknowledged.
 6             (4)  Actions  for  the  enforcement  of any existing
 7        order  for  child   support   or   medical   support   in
 8        post-judgment  dissolution  of marriage and post-judgment
 9        parentage actions.
10             (5)  Actions for the establishment of child  support
11        and  medical  support  orders  involving  parties who are
12        married and living separately, pursuant to Section 402 of
13        the Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
14             (6)  Temporary orders for support in any  action  in
15        which  the  custodial parent is a participant in the IV-D
16        program.
17             (7)  Any other child support matter provided for  in
18        the  Plan  for the creation of the System approved by the
19        Illinois Supreme Court.
20             (8)  Actions brought pursuant to Article  X  of  the
21        Illinois Public Aid Code.
22             (9)  Actions   brought   pursuant  to  Sections  7.1
23        through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.
24        (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)  of
25    this Section, if the custodial parent is not a participant in
26    the  IV-D program and maintenance is in issue, the case shall
27    be presented directly to the court.
28        (c)  Except as provided in subsection (b), the  Plan  may
29    provide   that   the  System  be  available  in  pre-judgment
30    proceedings  for  dissolution  of  marriage,  declaration  of
31    invalidity of marriage and legal separation.
32    (Source: P.A. 86-1401.)
33        Section  75.  The  Illinois  Parentage  Act  of  1984  is
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 1    amended by changing Sections 4.1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 13.1,  14,
 2    15.1, 20, 21, 22, and 23 as follows:
 3        (750 ILCS 45/4.1)
 4        Sec.   4.1.    Administrative  paternity  determinations.
 5    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,  before  the
 6    effective  date  of this amendatory Act of 1997, the Illinois
 7    Department   of   Public   Aid   may   make    administrative
 8    determinations  of  paternity  and nonpaternity in accordance
 9    with Section 10-17.7 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.  On and
10    after  that  date,  the  Attorney  General  may  make   those
11    determinations  in  accordance  with  Section  7.210  of  the
12    Attorney  General  Act.  These determinations of paternity or
13    nonpaternity  shall  have  the  full  force  and  effect   of
14    judgments entered under this Act.
15    (Source: P.A. 88-687, eff. 1-24-95.)
16        (750 ILCS 45/5) (from Ch. 40, par. 2505)
17        Sec. 5.  Presumption of Paternity.
18        (a)  A  man  is  presumed  to  be the natural father of a
19    child if:
20             (1)  he and the child's natural mother are  or  have
21        been  married  to each other, even though the marriage is
22        or could be declared invalid, and the child  is  born  or
23        conceived during such marriage;
24             (2)  after  the  child's  birth,  he and the child's
25        natural mother have married each other, even  though  the
26        marriage  is  or  could  be  declared  invalid, and he is
27        named, with his written consent, as the child's father on
28        the child's birth certificate;
29             (3)  he and the child's natural mother  have  signed
30        an  acknowledgment of paternity before the effective date
31        of this amendatory Act of 1997 in accordance  with  rules
32        adopted  by  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid under
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 1        Section 10-17.7 of the Illinois Public Aid Code  or  have
 2        signed  such  an  acknowledgment on or after that date in
 3        accordance with rules adopted  by  the  Attorney  General
 4        under Section 7.210 of the Attorney General Act; or
 5             (4)  he  and  the child's natural mother have signed
 6        an acknowledgment of parentage or, if the natural  father
 7        is someone other than one presumed to be the father under
 8        this  Section,  an acknowledgment of parentage and denial
 9        of paternity in accordance with Section 12 of  the  Vital
10        Records Act.
11        (b)  A  presumption under subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(2) of
12    this Section may be rebutted only  by  clear  and  convincing
13    evidence.   A  presumption under subdivision (a)(3) or (a)(4)
14    is conclusive, unless  the  acknowledgment  of  parentage  is
15    rescinded  under  the  process  provided in Section 12 of the
16    Vital Records Act, upon the earlier of:
17             (1)  60 days after the date  the  acknowledgment  of
18        parentage is signed, or
19             (2)  the  date  of  an  administrative  or  judicial
20        proceeding  relating to the child (including a proceeding
21        to establish a support order) in which the signatory is a
22        party;
23    except that if a  minor  has  signed  the  acknowledgment  of
24    paternity  or  acknowledgment  of  parentage  and  denial  of
25    paternity,  the presumption becomes conclusive 6 months after
26    the minor reaches majority or is otherwise emancipated.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-641, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
28        (750 ILCS 45/6) (from Ch. 40, par. 2506)
29        Sec. 6.  Establishment of Parent and  Child  Relationship
30    by Consent of the Parties.
31        (a)  A  parent  and child relationship may be established
32    voluntarily by the signing  and  witnessing  of  a  voluntary
33    acknowledgment  of parentage in accordance with Section 12 of
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 1    the Vital Records Act or  Section  10-17.7  of  the  Illinois
 2    Public Aid Code or Section 7.210 of the Attorney General Act.
 3    The  voluntary  acknowledgment of parentage shall contain the
 4    social security numbers of the persons signing the  voluntary
 5    acknowledgment  of parentage; however, failure to include the
 6    social security numbers of the persons  signing  a  voluntary
 7    acknowledgment of parentage does not invalidate the voluntary
 8    acknowledgment of parentage.
 9        (b)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions of this Act,
10    paternity established in accordance with subsection  (a)  has
11    the  full  force  and effect of a judgment entered under this
12    Act and serves as a basis for seeking a child  support  order
13    without any further proceedings to establish paternity.
14        (c)  A  judicial  or  administrative proceeding to ratify
15    paternity established in accordance with  subsection  (a)  is
16    neither required nor permitted.
17        (d)  A  signed  acknowledgment of paternity entered under
18    this Act may be challenged in court  only  on  the  basis  of
19    fraud,  duress,  or material mistake of fact, with the burden
20    of proof upon the challenging party.  Pending outcome of  the
21    challenge  to  the  acknowledgment  of  paternity,  the legal
22    responsibilities of the  signatories  shall  remain  in  full
23    force  and  effect,  except  upon  order  of the court upon a
24    showing of good cause.
25        (e)  Once a parent and child relationship is  established
26    in  accordance  with subsection (a), an order for support may
27    be established pursuant to a petition to establish  an  order
28    for  support  by  consent filed with the clerk of the circuit
29    court.  A copy of the properly  completed  acknowledgment  of
30    parentage  form  shall  be  attached  to  the  petition.  The
31    petition shall ask that the circuit court enter an order  for
32    support.   The petition may ask that an order for visitation,
33    custody,  or  guardianship  be  entered.   The   filing   and
34    appearance fees provided under the Clerks of Courts Act shall
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 1    be  waived  for  all  cases  in  which  an  acknowledgment of
 2    parentage form has been properly completed by the parties and
 3    in which a petition to establish  an  order  for  support  by
 4    consent  has  been filed with the clerk of the circuit court.
 5    This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit filing any
 6    petition for child support, visitation, or custody under this
 7    Act, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of  Marriage  Act,
 8    or   the  Non-Support  of  Spouse  and  Children  Act.   This
 9    subsection  shall  also  not  be  construed  to  prevent  the
10    establishment of an administrative  support  order  in  cases
11    involving   persons   receiving   child  support  enforcement
12    services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid  Code  or
13    under Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-641, eff. 8-9-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
15        (750 ILCS 45/8) (from Ch. 40, par. 2508)
16        Sec. 8.  Statute of limitations.
17        (a) (1)  An action brought by or on behalf of a child, an
18        action  brought by a party alleging that he or she is the
19        child's natural parent,  or  an  action  brought  by  the
20        Illinois  Department of Public Aid, if it is providing or
21        has provided financial support to the child or if  it  is
22        assisting  with  child support collection services, shall
23        be barred if brought later than 2 years after  the  child
24        reaches  the  age  of majority; however, if the action on
25        behalf of the child is brought by a public agency,  other
26        than  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid if it is
27        providing or has provided financial support to the  child
28        or  if  it  is  assisting  with  child support collection
29        services, it shall be barred 2 years after the agency has
30        ceased to provide assistance to the child.  This  Section
31        also  applies to any child for whom paternity has not yet
32        been established and  any  child  for  whom  a  paternity
33        action  was  previously  dismissed  under  a  statute  of
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 1        limitations.
 2             (2)  Failure to bring an action within 2 years shall
 3        not  bar any party from asserting a defense in any action
 4        to declare the non-existence  of  the  parent  and  child
 5        relationship.
 6             (3)  An  action  to declare the non-existence of the
 7        parent and child relationship shall be barred if  brought
 8        later than 2 years after the petitioner obtains knowledge
 9        of  relevant  facts.  The  2-year  period for bringing an
10        action to declare the  nonexistence  of  the  parent  and
11        child  relationship  shall  not extend beyond the date on
12        which the child reaches the age of 18 years.  Failure  to
13        bring  an  action  within 2 years shall not bar any party
14        from asserting a defense in any  action  to  declare  the
15        existence of the parent and child relationship.
16        (b)  The  time  during  which any party is not subject to
17    service of  process  or  is  otherwise  not  subject  to  the
18    jurisdiction  of  the  courts  of  this  State shall toll the
19    aforementioned periods.
20        (c)  This Act does not affect the time within  which  any
21    rights  under  the Probate Act of 1975 may be asserted beyond
22    the time provided by law relating to distribution and closing
23    of decedent's estates or to the determination of heirship, or
24    otherwise.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-674, eff. 8-14-96; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
26        (750 ILCS 45/11) (from Ch. 40, par. 2511)
27        Sec. 11.  Tests to determine inherited characteristics.
28        (a)  As soon as practicable, the court or  Administrative
29    Hearing Officer in an Expedited Child Support System may, and
30    upon  request  of  a party shall, order or direct the mother,
31    child and alleged father to submit to  deoxyribonucleic  acid
32    (DNA)  tests  to  determine inherited characteristics. If any
33    party refuses to submit to the tests, the court  may  resolve
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 1    the  question  of paternity against that party or enforce its
 2    order if the rights of others and the interests of justice so
 3    require.
 4        (b)  The tests shall be conducted by an expert  qualified
 5    as  an examiner of blood or tissue types and appointed by the
 6    court. The expert shall  determine  the  testing  procedures.
 7    However,  any  interested  party,  for  good  cause shown, in
 8    advance of the scheduled tests,  may  request  a  hearing  to
 9    object  to  the  qualifications  of the expert or the testing
10    procedures. The expert appointed by the court  shall  testify
11    at   the  pre-test  hearing  at  the  expense  of  the  party
12    requesting the hearing, except as provided in subsection  (h)
13    of  this  Section  for  an  indigent  party.  An  expert  not
14    appointed  by the court shall testify at the pre-test hearing
15    at the expense of the party  retaining  the  expert.  Inquiry
16    into an expert's qualifications at the pre-test hearing shall
17    not affect either parties' right to have the expert qualified
18    at trial.
19        For  tests  conducted  at  the  request  of  the Attorney
20    General,  the  Attorney  General  shall  identify   and   use
21    laboratories  that perform, at a reasonable cost, legally and
22    medically acceptable genetic tests that tend to identify  the
23    father  or  exclude the alleged father.  The Attorney General
24    shall employ competitive procedures for identifying and using
25    the laboratories. The Attorney General shall make the list of
26    those laboratories available to  court  and  law  enforcement
27    officials and, upon request, to the public.
28        (c)  The  expert  shall  prepare  a written report of the
29    test results. If the  test  results  show  that  the  alleged
30    father  is  not excluded, the report shall contain a combined
31    paternity index relating to  the  probability  of  paternity.
32    The expert may be called by the court as a witness to testify
33    to  his  or  her findings and, if called, shall be subject to
34    cross-examination by the parties. If the  test  results  show
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 1    that  the  alleged  father  is  not  excluded,  any party may
 2    demand that other experts, qualified as examiners of blood or
 3    tissue types, perform independent tests under order of court,
 4    including, but not limited to, blood types or other tests  of
 5    genetic  markers  such  as  those  found  by  Human Leucocyte
 6    Antigen (HLA) tests.  The results of the tests may be offered
 7    into evidence. The number and qualifications of  the  experts
 8    shall be determined by the court.
 9        (d)  Documentation  of  the chain of custody of the blood
10    or  tissue  samples,   accompanied   by   an   affidavit   or
11    certification in accordance with Section 1-109 of the Code of
12    Civil Procedure, is competent evidence to establish the chain
13    of custody.
14        (e)  The  report  of  the  test  results  prepared by the
15    appointed  expert  shall  be  made   by   affidavit   or   by
16    certification  as  provided  in  Section 1-109 of the Code of
17    Civil Procedure and shall be mailed to all parties.  A  proof
18    of  service  shall  be  filed  with  the court.  The verified
19    report shall be  admitted  into  evidence  at  trial  without
20    foundation  testimony  or  other  proof  of  authenticity  or
21    accuracy,   unless   a   written   motion   challenging   the
22    admissibility  of  the report is filed by either party within
23    28 days of receipt  of  the  report,  in  which  case  expert
24    testimony  shall  be  required.  A  party may not file such a
25    motion challenging the admissibility of the report later than
26    28 days before commencement of trial. Before trial, the court
27    shall determine whether the  motion  is  sufficient  to  deny
28    admission  of  the  report  by verification.  Failure to make
29    that timely motion constitutes  a  waiver  of  the  right  to
30    object  to admission by verification and shall not be grounds
31    for a continuance of the hearing to determine paternity.
32        (f)  Tests taken pursuant to this Section shall have  the
33    following effect:
34             (1)  If  the  court finds that the conclusion of the
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 1        expert or experts, as disclosed  by  the  evidence  based
 2        upon  the  tests,  is  that the alleged father is not the
 3        parent of the child, the question of paternity  shall  be
 4        resolved accordingly.
 5             (2)  If  the  experts  disagree in their findings or
 6        conclusions, the question shall  be  weighed  with  other
 7        competent evidence of paternity.
 8             (3)  If  the  tests  show that the alleged father is
 9        not excluded and that the  combined  paternity  index  is
10        less  than  500  to 1, this evidence shall be admitted by
11        the court and  shall  be  weighed  with  other  competent
12        evidence of paternity.
13             (4)  If  the  tests  show that the alleged father is
14        not excluded and that the combined paternity index is  at
15        least  500 to 1, the alleged father is presumed to be the
16        father,  and  this  evidence  shall  be  admitted.   This
17        presumption  may  be  rebutted  by  clear  and convincing
18        evidence.
19        (g)  Any presumption of parentage as set forth in Section
20    5 of this Act  is  rebutted  if  the  court  finds  that  the
21    conclusion of the expert or experts excludes paternity of the
22    presumed father.
23        (h)  The  expense of the tests shall be paid by the party
24    who requests the tests.  Where the tests are requested by the
25    party seeking to establish paternity and that party is  found
26    to be indigent by the court, the expense shall be paid by the
27    public  agency  providing representation; except that where a
28    public agency is not providing  representation,  the  expense
29    shall  be  paid by the county in which the action is brought.
30    Where the tests are ordered by the court on its own motion or
31    are requested by the alleged  or  presumed  father  and  that
32    father  is  found  to  be  indigent by the court, the expense
33    shall be paid by the county in which the action  is  brought.
34    Any  part of the expense may be taxed as costs in the action,
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 1    except that no costs may be taxed  against  a  public  agency
 2    that has not requested the tests.
 3        (i)  The compensation of each expert witness appointed by
 4    the court shall be paid as provided in subsection (h) of this
 5    Section.   Any  part  of the payment may be taxed as costs in
 6    the action, except that no  costs  may  be  taxed  against  a
 7    public  agency  that  has  not  requested the services of the
 8    expert witness.
 9        (j)  Nothing in this Section shall prevent any party from
10    obtaining tests of his or her own blood or tissue independent
11    of those ordered by  the  court  or  from  presenting  expert
12    testimony  interpreting  those tests or any other blood tests
13    ordered  pursuant  to  this  Section.  Reports  of  all   the
14    independent  tests, accompanied by affidavit or certification
15    pursuant to Section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and
16    notice of any expert witnesses to be called to testify to the
17    results of those tests shall be submitted to all  parties  at
18    least  30  days before any hearing set to determine the issue
19    of parentage.
20    (Source: P.A. 87-428; 87-435; 88-353; 88-687, eff. 1-24-95.)
21        (750 ILCS 45/13) (from Ch. 40, par. 2513)
22        Sec. 13.  Civil Action.
23        (a)  An action under this Act is a civil action  governed
24    by  the provisions of the "Code of Civil Procedure", approved
25    August 19, 1981, as amended,  and  the  Supreme  Court  rules
26    applicable  thereto, except where otherwise specified in this
27    Act.
28        (b)  Trial by jury is not available under this Act.
29        (c)  Certified copies of the bills for costs incurred for
30    pregnancy, and  childbirth,  and  genetic  testing  shall  be
31    admitted   into   evidence   at  judicial  or  administrative
32    proceedings   without   requiring   third-party    foundation
33    testimony  and  shall  constitute  prima  facie  evidence  of
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 1    amounts  incurred for those services or for testing on behalf
 2    of the child or other proof of authenticity or accuracy.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
 4        (750 ILCS 45/13.1)
 5        Sec.  13.1.    Temporary   order   for   child   support.
 6    Notwithstanding  any  other  law to the contrary, pending the
 7    outcome of a judicial determination of parentage,  the  court
 8    shall  issue a temporary order for child support, upon motion
 9    by a party and a showing of clear and convincing evidence  of
10    paternity  based  on  genetic test results or other evidence.
11    In determining the amount  of  the  temporary  child  support
12    award,  the  court shall use the guidelines and standards set
13    forth in subsection (a) of Section 505 and in  Section  505.2
14    of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
15        Any  new  or  existing support order entered by the court
16    under this  Section  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  series  of
17    judgments   against  the  person  obligated  to  pay  support
18    thereunder, each such judgment to be in the  amount  of  each
19    payment  or  installment  of  support and each judgment to be
20    deemed entered as of the date the  corresponding  payment  or
21    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
22    Each  such  judgment  shall  have the full force, effect, and
23    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
24    ability to be enforced.  Any  such  judgment  is  subject  to
25    modification  or  termination only in accordance with Section
26    510 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
27    A lien arises by  operation  of  law  against  the  real  and
28    personal   property  of  the  noncustodial  parent  for  each
29    installment of  overdue  support  owed  by  the  noncustodial
30    parent.
31        All  orders  for support, when entered or modified, shall
32    include a provision requiring  the  non-custodial  parent  to
33    notify  the court, and in cases in which a party is receiving
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 1    child and spouse support services  under  Article  X  of  the
 2    Illinois  Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295
 3    of the Attorney  General  Act,  the  Illinois  Department  of
 4    Public  Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory Act
 5    of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and  after  that  date),
 6    within 7 days, (i) of the name, address, and telephone number
 7    of any new employer of the non-custodial parent, (ii) whether
 8    the  non-custodial  parent  has  access  to  health insurance
 9    coverage through the employer or other group  coverage,  and,
10    if  so,  the  policy name and number and the names of persons
11    covered under the policy, and (iii) of any new residential or
12    mailing address or  telephone  number  of  the  non-custodial
13    parent.
14        In any subsequent action to enforce a support order, upon
15    sufficient  showing  that  diligent  effort  has been made to
16    ascertain the location of the non-custodial  parent,  service
17    of  process  or  provision of notice necessary in that action
18    may be made at the last known address  of  the  non-custodial
19    parent, in any manner expressly provided by the Code of Civil
20    Procedure  or  in this Act, which service shall be sufficient
21    for purposes of due process.
22        An order for support shall include a date  on  which  the
23    current  support obligation terminates.  The termination date
24    shall be no earlier than the date on which the child  covered
25    by  the order will attain the age of majority or is otherwise
26    emancipated.  The order for  support  shall  state  that  the
27    termination  date  does  not  apply to any arrearage that may
28    remain unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this paragraph  shall
29    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
31        (750 ILCS 45/14) (from Ch. 40, par. 2514)
32        Sec. 14.  Judgment.
33        (a) (1)  The judgment shall contain or explicitly reserve
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 1    provisions  concerning  any  duty and amount of child support
 2    and  may  contain  provisions  concerning  the  custody   and
 3    guardianship  of  the  child,  visitation privileges with the
 4    child, the furnishing of  bond  or  other  security  for  the
 5    payment  of  the judgment, which the court shall determine in
 6    accordance  with  the  relevant  factors  set  forth  in  the
 7    Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of  Marriage  Act  and  any
 8    other  applicable  law  of  Illinois, to guide the court in a
 9    finding in the best interests of the  child.  In  determining
10    custody,  joint custody, or visitation, the court shall apply
11    the  relevant  standards  of  the   Illinois   Marriage   and
12    Dissolution of Marriage Act. Specifically, in determining the
13    amount  of  any  child support award, the court shall use the
14    guidelines and standards  set  forth  in  subsection  (a)  of
15    Section 505 and in Section 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and
16    Dissolution  of Marriage Act.  For purposes of Section 505 of
17    the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage  Act,  "net
18    income"   of  the  non-custodial  parent  shall  include  any
19    benefits available to that person under the  Illinois  Public
20    Aid   Code   or   from   other   federal,   State   or  local
21    government-funded programs.  The court shall,  in  any  event
22    and  regardless  of  the amount of the non-custodial parent's
23    net income, in its judgment order the non-custodial parent to
24    pay child support to the custodial parent in a minimum amount
25    of not less than $10 per month. In an action brought within 2
26    years after a child's birth, the judgment or order may direct
27    either parent to pay  the  reasonable  expenses  incurred  by
28    either  parent  related  to  the  mother's  pregnancy and the
29    delivery of the child. The judgment or  order  shall  contain
30    the  father's  social security number, which the father shall
31    disclose to  the  court;  however,  failure  to  include  the
32    father's social security number on the judgment or order does
33    not invalidate the judgment or order.
34        (2)  If  a  judgment  of  parentage  contains no explicit
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 1    award of custody, the establishment of a  support  obligation
 2    or  of  visitation rights in one parent shall be considered a
 3    judgment granting custody  to  the  other  parent.    If  the
 4    parentage judgment contains no such provisions, custody shall
 5    be  presumed  to be with the mother; however, the presumption
 6    shall not apply if the father has had physical custody for at
 7    least 6 months prior to the date that  the  mother  seeks  to
 8    enforce custodial rights.
 9        (b)  The  court  shall  order all child support payments,
10    determined in accordance with such  guidelines,  to  commence
11    with  the  date  summons  is  served.   The  level of current
12    periodic support payments shall not  be  reduced  because  of
13    payments set for the period prior to the date of entry of the
14    support  order.   The  Court  may  order  any  child  support
15    payments to be made for a period prior to the commencement of
16    the  action.  In  determining whether and the extent to which
17    the payments shall be made for any prior  period,  the  court
18    shall  consider all relevant facts, including the factors for
19    determining the amount of support specified in  the  Illinois
20    Marriage  and Dissolution of Marriage Act and other equitable
21    factors including but not limited to:
22             (1)  The father's prior knowledge of  the  fact  and
23        circumstances of the child's birth.
24             (2)  The  father's  prior  willingness or refusal to
25        help raise or support the child.
26             (3)  The extent to which the mother  or  the  public
27        agency bringing the action previously informed the father
28        of  the child's needs or attempted to seek or require his
29        help in raising or supporting the child.
30             (4)  The reasons the mother or the public agency did
31        not file the action earlier.
32             (5)  The  extent  to  which  the  father  would   be
33        prejudiced by the delay in bringing the action.
34        For  purposes  of determining the amount of child support
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 1    to be paid for any period  before  the  date  the  order  for
 2    current  child  support  is  entered,  there  is a rebuttable
 3    presumption that the father's net income for the prior period
 4    was the same as his net income at  the  time  the  order  for
 5    current child support is entered.
 6        (c)  Any  new  or  existing  support order entered by the
 7    court under this Section shall be deemed to be  a  series  of
 8    judgments   against  the  person  obligated  to  pay  support
 9    thereunder, each judgment to be in the amount of each payment
10    or installment of support and each such judgment to be deemed
11    entered  as  of  the  date  the  corresponding   payment   or
12    installment becomes due under the terms of the support order.
13    Each   judgment   shall  have  the  full  force,  effect  and
14    attributes of any other judgment of this State, including the
15    ability to be enforced. A lien arises  by  operation  of  law
16    against  the  real  and personal property of the noncustodial
17    parent for each installment of overdue support  owed  by  the
18    noncustodial parent.
19        (d)  If the judgment or order of the court is at variance
20    with  the  child's  birth  certificate, the court shall order
21    that a new  birth  certificate  be  issued  under  the  Vital
22    Records Act.
23        (e)  On  request  of the mother and the father, the court
24    shall order a change  in  the  child's  name.  After  hearing
25    evidence  the  court  may  stay payment of support during the
26    period of the father's minority or period of disability.
27        (f)  If, upon a showing of  proper  service,  the  father
28    fails  to appear in court, or otherwise appear as provided by
29    law, the court may proceed to hear the cause  upon  testimony
30    of  the mother or other parties taken in open court and shall
31    enter a judgment by default.  The court may reserve any order
32    as to the amount  of  child  support  until  the  father  has
33    received notice, by regular mail, of a hearing on the matter.
34        (g)  A  one-time  charge  of  20%  is  imposable upon the
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 1    amount of past-due child support owed on July 1,  1988  which
 2    has  accrued under a support order entered by the court.  The
 3    charge shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions  of
 4    Section  10-21  of  the Illinois Public Aid Code and shall be
 5    enforced by  the  court  upon  petition.  On  and  after  the
 6    effective  date  of this amendatory Act of 1997, the Attorney
 7    General may collect, on behalf of the Illinois Department  of
 8    Public  Aid,  any  charge  imposed  in  accordance  with this
 9    subsection.  Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1997 shall  be
10    construed  to  affect  the  validity of any charge imposed in
11    accordance with this subsection.
12        (h)  All orders for support, when  entered  or  modified,
13    shall  include a provision requiring the non-custodial parent
14    to notify the court and, in cases in which party is receiving
15    child and spouse support services  under  Article  X  of  the
16    Illinois  Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295
17    of the Attorney  General  Act,  the  Illinois  Department  of
18    Public  Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory Act
19    of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and  after  that  date),
20    within  7  days,  (i)  of  the  name  and  address of any new
21    employer  of  the  non-custodial  parent,  (ii)  whether  the
22    non-custodial parent has access to health insurance  coverage
23    through  the employer or other group coverage and, if so, the
24    policy name and number and the names of persons covered under
25    the policy, and (iii)  of  any  new  residential  or  mailing
26    address  or telephone number of the non-custodial parent.  In
27    any subsequent action to enforce  a  support  order,  upon  a
28    sufficient  showing  that  a diligent effort has been made to
29    ascertain the location of the non-custodial  parent,  service
30    of  process  or provision of notice necessary in the case may
31    be made at the last known address of the non-custodial parent
32    in any  manner  expressly  provided  by  the  Code  of  Civil
33    Procedure  or this Act, which service shall be sufficient for
34    purposes of due process.
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 1        (i)  An order for support shall include a date  on  which
 2    the  current  support obligation terminates.  The termination
 3    date shall be no earlier than the date  on  which  the  child
 4    covered  by  the  order will attain the age of majority or is
 5    otherwise emancipated. The order for support shall state that
 6    the termination date does not apply to any arrearage that may
 7    remain unpaid on that date.  Nothing in this subsection shall
 8    be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order.
 9    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
10        (750 ILCS 45/15.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 2515.1)
11        Sec. 15.1. (a) Whenever it is determined in a  proceeding
12    to  establish  or enforce a child support obligation that the
13    person owing a duty of support is unemployed, the  court  may
14    order  the  person to seek employment and report periodically
15    to the court with a diary, listing or other memorandum of his
16    or her efforts in accordance with such order.   Additionally,
17    the  court  may  order the unemployed person to report to the
18    Department of Employment Security for job search services  or
19    to  make application with the local Jobs Training Partnership
20    Act provider for participation in  job  search,  training  or
21    work  programs  and  where  the  duty of support is owed to a
22    child receiving support  services  under  Article  X  of  the
23    Illinois  Public Aid Code or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295
24    of the Attorney General Act, as amended, the court may  order
25    the unemployed person to report to the Illinois Department of
26    Human  Services  Public  Aid for participation in job search,
27    training or work programs established under Section  9-6  and
28    Article IXA of the Illinois Public Aid that Code.
29        (b)  Whenever   it  is  determined  that  a  person  owes
30    past-due support for a child,  and  the  child  is  receiving
31    assistance  under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid Code, the court
32    shall order the following at  the  request  of  the  Illinois
33    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
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 1    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 2    that date):
 3             (1)  that the person pay  the  past-due  support  in
 4        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
 5             (2)  if   the   person  owing  past-due  support  is
 6        unemployed, is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is  not
 7        incapacitated,  that  the  person participate in such job
 8        search, training,  or  work  programs  established  under
 9        Section  9-6  and  Article IXA of the Illinois Public Aid
10        Code as the court deems appropriate.
11    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
12        (750 ILCS 45/20) (from Ch. 40, par. 2520)
13        Sec. 20.  Withholding of  Income  to  Secure  Payment  of
14    Support.
15    (A)  Definitions.
16        (1)  "Order  for  support"  means  any order of the court
17    which provides for periodic payment of funds for the  support
18    of a child, whether temporary or final, and includes any such
19    order which provides for:
20             (a)  modification  or  resumption  of, or payment of
21        arrearage accrued under, a previously existing order;
22             (b)  reimbursement of support;
23             (c)  payment or  reimbursement  of  the  expense  of
24        pregnancy and delivery;  or
25             (d)  enrollment  in  a health insurance plan that is
26        available to the obligor through  an  employer  or  labor
27        union or trade union.
28        (2)  "Arrearage" means the total amount of unpaid support
29    obligations  as determined by the court and incorporated into
30    an order for support.
31        (2.5)  "Business day" means a day on which State  offices
32    are open for regular business.
33        (3)  "Delinquency"  means  any payment under an order for
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 1    support which becomes due and remains unpaid after  entry  of
 2    the order for support.
 3        (4)  "Income"  means  any  form of periodic payment to an
 4    individual, regardless of source, including, but not  limited
 5    to: wages, salary, commission, compensation as an independent
 6    contractor,   workers'   compensation,  disability,  annuity,
 7    pension,  and  retirement  benefits,  lottery  prize  awards,
 8    insurance proceeds,  vacation  pay,  bonuses,  profit-sharing
 9    payments,  interest,  and  any  other  payments,  made by any
10    person, private entity, federal or state government, any unit
11    of local government, school district or any entity created by
12    Public Act; however, "income" excludes:
13             (a)  any amounts required by  law  to  be  withheld,
14        other  than  creditor  claims, including, but not limited
15        to, federal, State and local taxes, Social  Security  and
16        other retirement and disability contributions;
17             (b)  union dues;
18             (c)  any  amounts  exempted  by the federal Consumer
19        Credit Protection Act;
20             (d)  public assistance payments; and
21             (e)  unemployment  insurance  benefits   except   as
22        provided by law.
23        Any  other  State  or  local  laws  which limit or exempt
24    income or the amount or percentage  of  income  that  can  be
25    withheld shall not apply.
26        (5)  "Obligor"  means  the  individual who owes a duty to
27    make payments under an order for support.
28        (6)  "Obligee" means the individual to  whom  a  duty  of
29    support is owed or the individual's legal representative.
30        (7)  "Payor" means any payor of income to an obligor.
31        (8)  "Public  office"  means  any elected official or any
32    State or local agency which is or may become  responsible  by
33    law  for enforcement of, or which is or may become authorized
34    to enforce, an order for support, including, but not  limited
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 1    to:  the  Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Public
 2    Aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services, the  Illinois
 3    Department  of  Children and Family Services, and the various
 4    State's  Attorneys,  Clerks  of   the   Circuit   Court   and
 5    supervisors of general assistance.
 6        (9)  "Premium"  means  the  dollar  amount  for which the
 7    obligor is liable to his employer or  labor  union  or  trade
 8    union and which must be paid to enroll or maintain a child in
 9    a  health  insurance  plan  that  is available to the obligor
10    through an employer or labor union or trade union.
11    (B)  Entry of Order for Support Containing Income Withholding
12    Provisions; Income Withholding Notice.
13        (1)  In addition to  any  content  required  under  other
14    laws,  every  order  for  support entered on or after July 1,
15    1997, shall:
16             (a)  Require an  income  withholding  notice  to  be
17        prepared  and  served  immediately  upon any payor of the
18        obligor by the obligee or public office, unless a written
19        agreement is reached between and signed by  both  parties
20        providing  for  an  alternative arrangement, approved and
21        entered into the  record  by  the  court,  which  ensures
22        payment  of support.  In that case, the order for support
23        shall provide that an income withholding notice is to  be
24        prepared   and   served   only  if  the  obligor  becomes
25        delinquent in paying the order for support; and
26             (b)  Contain  a  dollar  amount  to  be  paid  until
27        payment in full of any  delinquency  that  accrues  after
28        entry  of  the order for support.  The amount for payment
29        of delinquency shall not be less than 20% of the total of
30        the current support amount and  the  amount  to  be  paid
31        periodically  for  payment of any arrearage stated in the
32        order for support; and
33             (c)  Include the obligor's Social  Security  Number,
34        which  the  obligor  shall  disclose to the court. If the
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 1        obligor is not a United States citizen, the obligor shall
 2        disclose to the court, and the court shall include in the
 3        order  for  support,  the  obligor's  alien  registration
 4        number,  passport  number,  and  home  country's   social
 5        security or national health number, if applicable.
 6        (2)  At  the  time  the order for support is entered, the
 7    Clerk of the Circuit Court shall provide a copy of the  order
 8    to the obligor and shall make copies available to the obligee
 9    and public office.
10        (3)  The income withholding notice shall:
11             (a)  Be  in  the  standard  format prescribed by the
12        federal Department of Health and Human Services; and
13             (b)  Direct any payor to withhold the dollar  amount
14        required for current support under the order for support;
15        and
16             (c)  Direct  any payor to withhold the dollar amount
17        required to be paid  periodically  under  the  order  for
18        support for payment of the amount of any arrearage stated
19        in the order for support; and
20             (d)  Direct  any payor or labor union or trade union
21        to enroll a child as a beneficiary of a health  insurance
22        plan and withhold or cause to be withheld, if applicable,
23        any required premiums; and
24             (e)  State   the   amount   of   the   payor  income
25        withholding fee specified under this Section; and
26             (f)  State that the amount  actually  withheld  from
27        the  obligor's  income  for  support  and other purposes,
28        including the payor withholding fee specified under  this
29        Section,  may  not  be  in  excess  of the maximum amount
30        permitted under the federal  Consumer  Credit  Protection
31        Act; and
32             (g)  State the duties of the payor and the fines and
33        penalties for failure to withhold and pay over income and
34        for  discharging,  disciplining,  refusing  to  hire,  or
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 1        otherwise  penalizing  the obligor because of the duty to
 2        withhold and pay over income under this Section; and
 3             (h)  State the rights, remedies, and duties  of  the
 4        obligor under this Section; and
 5             (i)  Include  the  obligor's Social Security Number;
 6        and
 7             (j)  Include the date that withholding  for  current
 8        support   terminates,   which   shall   be  the  date  of
 9        termination of the current support obligation  set  forth
10        in the order for support.
11        (4)  The  accrual  of  a  delinquency  as a condition for
12    service of an income withholding notice, under the  exception
13    to immediate withholding in paragraph (1) of this subsection,
14    shall  apply  only  to  the  initial  service  of  an  income
15    withholding notice on a payor of the obligor.
16        (5)  Notwithstanding    the    exception   to   immediate
17    withholding contained in paragraph (1) of this subsection, if
18    the court finds at the time of any hearing that an  arrearage
19    has  accrued,  the  court shall order immediate service of an
20    income withholding notice upon the payor.
21        (6)  If the order for support,  under  the  exception  to
22    immediate  withholding  contained  in  paragraph  (1) of this
23    subsection, provides that an income withholding notice is  to
24    be prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent
25    in  paying  the  order for support, the obligor may execute a
26    written  waiver  of  that  condition  and  request  immediate
27    service on the payor.
28        (7)  The obligee or public office may  serve  the  income
29    withholding  notice  on  the  payor  or  its  superintendent,
30    manager,  or  other  agent by ordinary mail or certified mail
31    return receipt requested, by facsimile transmission or  other
32    electronic  means,  by  personal  delivery,  or by any method
33    provided by law for service of a summons.   At  the  time  of
34    service  on  the  payor  and  as  notice that withholding has
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 1    commenced, the obligee or public office shall serve a copy of
 2    the income withholding notice on the obligor by ordinary mail
 3    addressed to his  or  her  last  known  address.   Proofs  of
 4    service  on the payor and the obligor shall be filed with the
 5    Clerk of the Circuit Court.
 6        (8)  At any time after the initial service of  an  income
 7    withholding notice under this Section, any other payor of the
 8    obligor may be served with the same income withholding notice
 9    without further notice to the obligor.
10        (9)  (4)  New  service of an income order for withholding
11    notice is not required in  order  to  resume  withholding  of
12    income  in  the  case  of  an obligor with respect to whom an
13    income order for withholding notice was previously served  on
14    the  payor if withholding of income was terminated because of
15    an interruption in the obligor's employment of less than  180
16    days.
17    (C)  Income Withholding After Accrual of Delinquency.
18        (1)  Whenever  an  obligor  accrues  a  delinquency,  the
19    obligee  or  public  office  may  prepare  and serve upon the
20    obligor's payor an income withholding notice that:
21             (a)  Contains   the   information   required   under
22        paragraph (3) of subsection (B); and
23             (b)  Contains a computation of the period and  total
24        amount  of  the delinquency as of the date of the notice;
25        and
26             (c)  Directs the payor to withhold the dollar amount
27        required to be withheld periodically under the order  for
28        support for payment of the delinquency.
29        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
30    of  the income withholding notice shall be served as provided
31    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
32        (3)  The obligor may contest withholding commenced  under
33    this  subsection  by filing a petition to contest withholding
34    with the Clerk of the Circuit  Court  within  20  days  after
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 1    service  of  a  copy  of the income withholding notice on the
 2    obligor. However, the grounds for  the  petition  to  contest
 3    withholding shall be limited to:
 4             (a)  A dispute concerning the existence or amount of
 5        the delinquency; or
 6             (b)  The identity of the obligor.
 7        The  Clerk  of the Circuit Court shall notify the obligor
 8    and the obligee or public office of the time and place of the
 9    hearing on the petition to contest  withholding.   The  court
10    shall   hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
11    subsection (F).
12    (D)  Initiated Withholding.
13        (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
14    if the court has not required that  income  withholding  take
15    effect immediately, the obligee or public office may initiate
16    withholding, regardless of whether a delinquency has accrued,
17    by  preparing and serving an income withholding notice on the
18    payor that contains the information required under  paragraph
19    (3)  of  subsection  (B) and states that the parties' written
20    agreement providing an alternative arrangement  to  immediate
21    withholding  under  paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer
22    ensures payment of support and the reason or reasons  why  it
23    does not.
24        (2)  The income withholding notice and the obligor's copy
25    of  the income withholding notice shall be served as provided
26    in paragraph (7) of subsection (B).
27        (3)  The obligor may contest withholding commenced  under
28    this  subsection  by filing a petition to contest withholding
29    with the Clerk of the Circuit  Court  within  20  days  after
30    service  of  a  copy  of the income withholding notice on the
31    obligor. However, the  grounds  for  the  petition  shall  be
32    limited to a dispute concerning:
33             (a)  whether    the   parties'   written   agreement
34        providing  an  alternative   arrangement   to   immediate
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 1        withholding   under   paragraph  (1)  of  subsection  (B)
 2        continues to ensure payment of support; or
 3             (b)  the identity of the obligor.
 4        It shall not be grounds for filing a  petition  that  the
 5    obligor  has  made  all  payments  due  by  the  date  of the
 6    petition.
 7        (4)  If  the  obligor   files   a   petition   contesting
 8    withholding within the 20-day period required under paragraph
 9    (3),  the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall notify the obligor
10    and the obligee or public office, as appropriate, of the time
11    and place of the hearing on the petition.   The  court  shall
12    hold  the  hearing  pursuant  to the provisions of subsection
13    (F). regular or facsimile regular or facsimile
14    (E)  Duties of Payor.
15        (1)  It shall be the duty  of  any  payor  who  has  been
16    served  with  an  income withholding notice to deduct and pay
17    over income as provided in this subsection.  The payor  shall
18    deduct  the  amount  designated  in  the  income  withholding
19    notice,  as  supplemented  by any notice provided pursuant to
20    paragraph (6) of subsection (G), beginning no later than  the
21    next  payment of income which is payable or creditable to the
22    obligor that occurs 14 days following  the  date  the  income
23    withholding  notice  was  mailed,  sent by facsimile or other
24    electronic means, or  placed  for  personal  delivery  to  or
25    service  on  the  payor.   The  payor may combine all amounts
26    withheld for the benefit of an obligee or public office  into
27    a  single  payment and transmit the payment with a listing of
28    obligors from whom withholding has been effected.  The  payor
29    shall pay the amount withheld to the obligee or public office
30    within  7  business days after the date the amount would (but
31    for the duty to withhold income) have been paid  or  credited
32    to  the  obligor.  If  the  payor  knowingly fails to pay any
33    amount withheld to the obligee  or  public  office  within  7
34    business  days after the date the amount would have been paid
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 1    or credited to the obligor, the payor shall pay a penalty  of
 2    $100 for each day that the withheld amount is not paid to the
 3    obligee  or public office after the period of 7 business days
 4    has expired.  The failure  of  a  payor,  on  more  than  one
 5    occasion,  to  pay  amounts withheld to the obligee or public
 6    office within 7 business days after the date the amount would
 7    have  been  paid  or  credited  to  the  obligor  creates   a
 8    presumption  that  the payor knowingly failed to pay over the
 9    amounts.  This penalty, along with any amounts required to be
10    withheld and paid, may be collected in a civil  action  which
11    may  be  brought against the payor in favor of the obligee or
12    public office. A finding of a payor's  nonperformance  within
13    the  time required under this Section must be documented by a
14    certified mail return receipt showing  the  date  the  income
15    order  for  withholding  notice  was served on the payor. For
16    purposes  of  this  Section,  a  withheld  amount  shall   be
17    considered  paid  by  a payor on the date it is mailed by the
18    payor, or on the date an electronic  funds  transfer  of  the
19    amount  has  been  initiated  by  the  payor,  or on the date
20    delivery of the amount has been initiated by the  payor.  For
21    each deduction, the payor shall provide the obligee or public
22    office,  at the time of transmittal, with the date the amount
23    would (but for the duty to withhold income) have been paid or
24    credited to the obligor. The payor shall not be  required  to
25    vary  the  normal  pay  and  disbursement  cycles in order to
26    comply with this paragraph.
27        Upon receipt of an income  withholding  notice  requiring
28    that  a  minor  child  be  named as a beneficiary of a health
29    insurance plan available through an employer or  labor  union
30    or  trade  union,  the employer or labor union or trade union
31    shall immediately enroll the minor child as a beneficiary  in
32    the   health   insurance   plan   designated  by  the  income
33    withholding notice. The employer shall withhold any  required
34    premiums  and  pay  over  any  amounts  so  withheld  and any
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 1    additional amounts the employer pays to the insurance carrier
 2    in a timely manner.  The employer or  labor  union  or  trade
 3    union shall mail to the obligee, within 15 days of enrollment
 4    or  upon request, notice of the date of coverage, information
 5    on the dependent coverage plan, and all  forms  necessary  to
 6    obtain  reimbursement  for  covered  health expenses, such as
 7    would be made available to a new employee. When an order  for
 8    dependent coverage is in effect and the insurance coverage is
 9    terminated  or  changed for any reason, the employer or labor
10    union or trade union shall notify the obligee within 10  days
11    of  the  termination  or  change  date  along  with notice of
12    conversion privileges.
13        For withholding of income, the payor shall be entitled to
14    receive a fee not to exceed $5 per month to be taken from the
15    income to be paid to the obligor.
16        (2)  Whenever the obligor is no longer  receiving  income
17    from  the  payor, the payor shall return a copy of the income
18    withholding notice to the obligee or public office and  shall
19    provide   information  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  this
20    Section.
21        (3)  Withholding of income under this  Section  shall  be
22    made  without regard to any prior or subsequent garnishments,
23    attachments,  wage  assignments,  or  any  other  claims   of
24    creditors.   Withholding  of  income under this Section shall
25    not be in excess of the maximum amounts permitted  under  the
26    federal Consumer Credit Protection Act. If the payor has been
27    served   with   more   than  one  income  withholding  notice
28    pertaining to the same  obligor,  the  payor  shall  allocate
29    income  available  for  withholding  on a proportionate share
30    basis, giving priority to current support payments.  If there
31    is any income available for withholding after withholding for
32    all current support obligations, the payor shall allocate the
33    income to past due support payments ordered in cases in which
34    cash assistance under the Illinois Public  Aid  Code  is  not
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 1    being  provided  to  the obligee and then to past due support
 2    payments ordered in cases in which cash assistance under  the
 3    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code is being provided to the obligee,
 4    both on a proportionate share basis.  A  payor  who  complies
 5    with an income withholding notice that is regular on its face
 6    shall  not  be subject to civil liability with respect to any
 7    individual, any agency, or any creditor of  the  obligor  for
 8    conduct in compliance with the notice.
 9        (4)  No payor shall discharge, discipline, refuse to hire
10    or  otherwise  penalize  any  obligor  because of the duty to
11    withhold income.
12    (F)  Petitions to Contest Withholding or to Modify,  Suspend,
13    Terminate, or Correct Income Withholding Notices.
14        (1)  When   an   obligor  files  a  petition  to  contest
15    withholding, the court, after  due  notice  to  all  parties,
16    shall  hear the matter as soon as practicable and shall enter
17    an order granting or denying relief, ordering service  of  an
18    amended  income  withholding  notice,  where  applicable,  or
19    otherwise resolving the matter.
20        The  court shall deny the obligor's petition if the court
21    finds that when the income  withholding  notice  was  mailed,
22    sent  by facsimile transmission or other electronic means, or
23    placed for personal delivery to or service on the payor:
24             (a)  A delinquency existed; or
25             (b)  The parties'  written  agreement  providing  an
26        alternative  arrangement  to  immediate withholding under
27        paragraph (1) of subsection (B) no longer ensured payment
28        of support.
29        (2)  At any time, an obligor, obligee, public  office  or
30    Clerk of the Circuit Court may petition the court to:
31             (a)  modify,   suspend   or   terminate  the  income
32        withholding notice because of a modification,  suspension
33        or termination of the underlying order for support; or
34             (b)  modify  the  amount of income to be withheld to
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 1        reflect payment in full or in part of the delinquency  or
 2        arrearage by income withholding or otherwise; or
 3             (c)  suspend  the  income withholding notice because
 4        of inability to deliver income withheld  to  the  obligee
 5        due to the obligee's failure to provide a mailing address
 6        or other means of delivery.
 7        (3)  At  any  time  an  obligor may petition the court to
 8    correct a term contained in an income withholding  notice  to
 9    conform  to  that  stated in the underlying order for support
10    for:
11             (a)  The amount of current support;
12             (b)  The amount of the arrearage;
13             (c)  The  periodic  amount  for   payment   of   the
14        arrearage; or
15             (d)  The   periodic   amount   for  payment  of  the
16        delinquency.
17        (4)  The obligor, obligee or public office shall serve on
18    the payor, in the  manner  provided  for  service  of  income
19    withholding  notices  in  paragraph  (7) of subsection (B), a
20    copy of any order entered pursuant to  this  subsection  that
21    affects the duties of the payor.
22        (5)  At any time, a public office or Clerk of the Circuit
23    Court may serve a notice on the payor to:
24             (a)  Cease  withholding  of  income  for  payment of
25        current support for a child when the  support  obligation
26        for  that  child has automatically ceased under the order
27        for support through emancipation or otherwise; or
28             (b)  Cease withholding  of  income  for  payment  of
29        delinquency   or   arrearage   when  the  delinquency  or
30        arrearage has been paid in full.
31        (6)  The notice provided for under paragraph (5) of  this
32    subsection  shall  be  served  on  the  payor  in  the manner
33    provided  for  service  of  income  withholding  notices   in
34    paragraph (7) of subsection (B), and a copy shall be provided
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 1    to the obligor and the obligee.
 2        (7)  The  income  withholding notice shall continue to be
 3    binding upon the payor until service  of  an  amended  income
 4    withholding  notice  or  any  order  of  the  court or notice
 5    entered or provided for under this subsection.
 6    (G)  Additional Duties.
 7        (1)  An  obligee  who  is  receiving  income  withholding
 8    payments under this Section shall notify the  payor,  if  the
 9    obligee receives the payments directly from the payor, or the
10    public   office  or  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  as
11    appropriate, of any change of address within 7 days  of  such
12    change.
13        (2)  An  obligee  who  is a recipient of public aid shall
14    send a copy of any income withholding notice  served  by  the
15    obligee  to  the  Attorney  General Division of Child Support
16    Enforcement of the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
17        (3)  Each obligor shall notify the  obligee,  the  public
18    office,  and  the Clerk of the Circuit Court of any change of
19    address within 7 days.
20        (4)  An obligor whose income is being withheld or who has
21    been served with a notice of  delinquency  pursuant  to  this
22    Section  shall notify the obligee, the public office, and the
23    Clerk of the Circuit Court of any new payor, within 7 days.
24        (5)  When the Office of  the  Attorney  General  Illinois
25    Department  of  Public Aid is no longer authorized to receive
26    payments for the obligee, it shall, within 7 days, notify the
27    payor or, where appropriate, the Clerk of the Circuit  Court,
28    to redirect income withholding payments to the obligee.
29        (6)  The obligee or public office shall provide notice to
30    the payor and Clerk of the Circuit Court of any other support
31    payment  made,  including but not limited to, a set-off under
32    federal and State law or partial payment of  the  delinquency
33    or arrearage, or both.
34        (7)  Any  public  office  and  Clerk of the Circuit Court
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 1    which collects, disburses or receives  payments  pursuant  to
 2    income withholding notices shall maintain complete, accurate,
 3    and  clear  records  of all payments and their disbursements.
 4    Certified copies of payment records maintained  by  a  public
 5    office  or  Clerk of the Circuit Court shall, without further
 6    proof, be admitted into evidence  in  any  legal  proceedings
 7    under this Section.
 8        (8)  The  Illinois  Department  of Public Aid (before the
 9    effective date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997)  or  the
10    Attorney  General  (on  and  after  that  date)  shall design
11    suggested legal forms for proceeding under this  Section  and
12    shall   make   available   to   the  courts  such  forms  and
13    informational materials which  describe  the  procedures  and
14    remedies  set forth herein for distribution to all parties in
15    support actions.
16        (9)  At the time of transmitting  each  support  payment,
17    the  clerk  of the circuit court shall provide the obligee or
18    public office, as appropriate, with any information furnished
19    by the payor as to the date the amount  would  (but  for  the
20    duty  to  withhold  income) have been paid or credited to the
21    obligor.
22    (H)  Penalties.
23        (1)  Where a payor wilfully fails to withhold or pay over
24    income pursuant  to  a  properly  served  income  withholding
25    notice,  or wilfully discharges, disciplines, refuses to hire
26    or otherwise penalizes an obligor as prohibited by subsection
27    (E), or otherwise fails to comply with any duties imposed  by
28    this  Section,  the  obligee,  public  office  or obligor, as
29    appropriate, may file a complaint with the court against  the
30    payor.   The  clerk  of  the  circuit  court shall notify the
31    obligee or public office, as appropriate, and the obligor and
32    payor of the time and place of the hearing on the  complaint.
33    The  court  shall  resolve any factual dispute including, but
34    not limited to, a denial that the payor is paying or has paid
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 1    income to the obligor.   Upon  a  finding  in  favor  of  the
 2    complaining party, the court:
 3             (a)  shall  enter judgment and order the enforcement
 4        thereof for the total  amount  that  the  payor  wilfully
 5        failed to withhold or pay over; and
 6             (b)  may  order  employment  or  reinstatement of or
 7        restitution to the obligor, or both,  where  the  obligor
 8        has  been  discharged,  disciplined, denied employment or
 9        otherwise penalized by the payor and may  impose  a  fine
10        upon the payor not to exceed $200.
11        (2)  Any  obligee,  public office or obligor who wilfully
12    initiates a  false  proceeding  under  this  Section  or  who
13    wilfully  fails  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of this
14    Section shall be punished as in cases of contempt of court.
15    (I)  Alternative  Procedures  for  Service   of   an   Income
16    Withholding Notice.
17        (1)  The procedures of this subsection may be used in any
18    matter to serve an income withholding notice on a payor if:
19             (a)  For  any  reason  the  most  recent  order  for
20        support  entered  does not contain the income withholding
21        provisions required under subsection (B), irrespective of
22        whether a separate  order  for  withholding  was  entered
23        prior to July 1, 1997; and
24             (b)  The  obligor  has  accrued  a delinquency after
25        entry of the most recent order for support.
26        (2)  The obligee or public office shall prepare and serve
27    the  income  withholding  notice  in  accordance   with   the
28    provisions  of  subsection  (C), except that the notice shall
29    contain a periodic amount  for  payment  of  the  delinquency
30    equal  to  20% of the total of the current support amount and
31    the amount  to  be  paid  periodically  for  payment  of  any
32    arrearage stated in the most recent order for support.
33        (3)  If  the  obligor  requests  in  writing  that income
34    withholding become effective prior to the obligor accruing  a
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 1    delinquency  under  the  most  recent  order for support, the
 2    obligee or public office may  prepare  and  serve  an  income
 3    withholding  notice  on  the  payor as provided in subsection
 4    (B).  In addition to filing proofs of service of  the  income
 5    withholding  notice on the payor and the obligor, the obligee
 6    or public office shall file a copy of the  obligor's  written
 7    request  for income withholding with the Clerk of the Circuit
 8    Court.
 9        (4)  All  other  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be
10    applicable with respect to the provisions of this  subsection
11    (I).
12    (J)  Remedies in Addition to Other Laws.
13        (1)  The  rights,  remedies, duties and penalties created
14    by this Section are in addition to and  not  in  substitution
15    for  any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties created
16    by any other law.
17        (2)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  as
18    invalidating any assignment of  wages  or  benefits  executed
19    prior  to  July  1,  1985 or any order for withholding served
20    prior to July 1, 1997.
21    (Source: P.A.  89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-18,  eff.   7-1-97;
22    90-425, eff. 8-15-97; revised 9-29-97.)
23        (750 ILCS 45/21) (from Ch. 40, par. 2521)
24        Sec.  21.  Support  payments;  receiving  and  disbursing
25    agents.
26        (1)  In  an  action  filed  in  counties  of  less than 3
27    million population in which an order  for  child  support  is
28    entered, and in supplementary proceedings in such counties to
29    enforce  or  vary  the  terms of such order arising out of an
30    action filed in such counties, the court, except  in  actions
31    or  supplementary  proceedings  in  which  the  pregnancy and
32    delivery expenses of the mother or the child support payments
33    are for a recipient of aid  under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid
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 1    Code, shall direct that child support payments be made to the
 2    clerk  of  the  court  unless  in the discretion of the court
 3    exceptional circumstances warrant otherwise.  In cases  where
 4    payment  is to be made to persons other than the clerk of the
 5    court the judgment or order of support shall  set  forth  the
 6    facts of the exceptional circumstances.
 7        (2)  In  an action filed in counties of 3 million or more
 8    population in which an order for child  support  is  entered,
 9    and  in supplementary proceedings in such counties to enforce
10    or vary the terms of such order  arising  out  of  an  action
11    filed  date in such counties, the court, except in actions or
12    supplementary proceedings in which the pregnancy and delivery
13    expenses of the mother or the child support payments are  for
14    a  recipient of aid under the Illinois Public Aid Code, shall
15    direct that child support payments  be  made  either  to  the
16    clerk  of  the  court or to the Court Service Division of the
17    County Department of Public Aid,  or  to  the  clerk  of  the
18    court, the Attorney General, or to the Illinois Department of
19    Public Aid, unless in the discretion of the court exceptional
20    circumstances warrant otherwise.  In such cases where payment
21    is  to  be made to persons other than the clerk of the court,
22    the Court Service Division of the County Department of Public
23    Aid, or the Illinois Department of Public Aid,  the  judgment
24    or  order  of  support  shall  set  forth  the  facts  of the
25    exceptional circumstances.
26        (3)  Where the action or supplementary proceeding  is  in
27    behalf of a mother for pregnancy and delivery expenses or for
28    child  support,  or both, and the mother, child, or both, are
29    recipients of aid under the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code,  the
30    court  shall  order that the payments be made directly to (a)
31    the Attorney General Illinois Department of Public Aid if the
32    mother or child, or both, are recipients under Articles IV or
33    V of the Code, or (b) the local governmental unit responsible
34    for the support of the mother or child, or both, if they  are
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 1    recipients   under  Articles  VI  or  VII  of  the  Code.  In
 2    accordance with federal law  and  regulations,  the  Attorney
 3    General  or Illinois Department of Public Aid may continue to
 4    collect  current  maintenance  payments  or   child   support
 5    payments,  or  both,  after  those  persons  cease to receive
 6    public assistance and until  termination  of  services  under
 7    Article  X  of the Illinois Public Aid Code or under Sections
 8    7.1 through 7.295 of the Attorney General Act.  The  Attorney
 9    General  or  Illinois  Department of Public Aid shall pay the
10    net amount collected to those  persons  after  deducting  any
11    costs incurred in making the collection or any collection fee
12    from the amount of any recovery made. The Illinois Department
13    of   Public   Aid,   the   Attorney  General,  or  the  local
14    governmental unit, as  the  case  may  be,  may  direct  that
15    payments  be  made directly to the mother of the child, or to
16    some other person or agency in the child's behalf,  upon  the
17    removal  of the mother and child from the public aid rolls or
18    upon termination of services under Article X of the  Illinois
19    Public  Aid  Code  or under Sections 7.1 through 7.295 of the
20    Attorney General Act; and upon such direction,  the  Illinois
21    Department,  the  Attorney General, or the local governmental
22    unit, as the case requires, shall give notice of such  action
23    to the court in writing or by electronic transmission.
24        (4)  All  clerks  of  the  court,  and  the Court Service
25    Division of a  County  Department  of  Public  Aid,  and  the
26    Illinois  Department  of Public Aid, and the Attorney General
27    receiving child support payments under paragraphs (1) or  (2)
28    shall  disburse  the  same  to the person or persons entitled
29    thereto under the terms of the order.  They  shall  establish
30    and maintain clear and current records of all moneys received
31    and  disbursed  and of defaults and delinquencies in required
32    payments.  The court, by order or rule, shall make  provision
33    for the carrying out of these duties.
34        In  cases  in which a party is receiving child and spouse
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 1    support services under Article X of the Illinois  Public  Aid
 2    Code  or  under  Sections  7.1  through 7.295 of the Attorney
 3    General Act and the order for  support  provides  that  child
 4    support  payments  be  made  to  the  obligee,  the  Illinois
 5    Department  of  Public Aid (before the effective date of this
 6    amendatory Act of 1997) or the Attorney General (on and after
 7    that  date)  may  provide  notice  to  the  obligor  and  the
 8    obligor's payor, when income withholding is in  effect  under
 9    Section 20 of this Act, to make all payments after receipt of
10    the Department's or Attorney General's notice to the clerk of
11    the  court  until  further  notice  by  the Department or the
12    Attorney General or order of the court.  Copies of the notice
13    shall be provided to the obligee and the clerk.  The  clerk's
14    copy  shall contain a proof of service on the obligor and the
15    obligor's payor, where applicable.  The clerk shall file  the
16    clerk's  copy  of the notice in the court file. The notice to
17    the obligor and the payor, if  applicable,  may  be  sent  by
18    ordinary  mail,  certified  mail,  return  receipt requested,
19    facsimile transmission, or other electronic process,  or  may
20    be served upon the obligor or payor using any method provided
21    by  law  for  service  of a summons.  An obligor who fails to
22    comply with a notice provided under this paragraph is  guilty
23    of a Class B misdemeanor.  A payor who fails to comply with a
24    notice  provided under this paragraph is guilty of a business
25    offense and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
26        Upon   notification   in   writing   or   by   electronic
27    transmission from  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid
28    (before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997) or
29    the Attorney General (on and after that date) to the clerk of
30    the  court  that  a  person who is receiving support payments
31    under this Section is  receiving  services  under  the  Child
32    Support  Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of the
33    Social  Security  Act,  any  support  payments   subsequently
34    received  by  the  clerk of the court shall be transmitted in
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 1    accordance with the instructions of the  Illinois  Department
 2    of Public Aid or the Attorney General until the Department or
 3    the  Attorney  General gives notice to the clerk of the court
 4    to cease the transmittal. After  providing  the  notification
 5    authorized  under  this paragraph, the Illinois Department of
 6    Public Aid (before the effective date of this amendatory  Act
 7    of  1997)  or  the  Attorney General (on and after that date)
 8    shall be entitled  as  a  party  to  notice  of  any  further
 9    proceedings in the case.  The clerk of the court shall file a
10    copy  of  the Illinois Department of Public Aid's or Attorney
11    General's notification in the court file.  The failure of the
12    clerk to file a copy of the notification in  the  court  file
13    shall  not, however, affect the Illinois Department of Public
14    Aid's or  Attorney  General's  right  to  receive  notice  of
15    further proceedings.
16        Payments under this Section to the Illinois Department of
17    Public  Aid  or  the  Attorney  General pursuant to the Child
18    Support Enforcement Program established by Title IV-D of  the
19    Social  Security  Act  shall  be  paid into the Child Support
20    Enforcement  Trust  Fund.   All  other  payments  under  this
21    Section to the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid  shall  be
22    deposited  in  the  Public  Assistance Recoveries Trust Fund.
23    Disbursement from these funds shall be  as  provided  in  the
24    Illinois  Public  Aid  Code.   Payments  received  by a local
25    governmental unit shall be deposited in that  unit's  General
26    Assistance Fund.
27        (5)  The   moneys   received   by   persons  or  agencies
28    designated by  the  court  shall  be  disbursed  by  them  in
29    accordance  with  the order.  However, the court, on petition
30    of the state's attorney or the Attorney  General,  may  enter
31    new  orders  designating the clerk of the court, the Attorney
32    General, or the Illinois Department of  Public  Aid,  as  the
33    person  or  agency  authorized  to receive and disburse child
34    support payments and, in the case  of  recipients  of  public
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 1    aid,  the  court,  on  petition  of  the  Attorney General or
 2    State's Attorney, shall direct subsequent payments to be paid
 3    to the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid,  the  Attorney
 4    General,  or  to  the appropriate local governmental unit, as
 5    provided in paragraph  (3).  Payments  of  child  support  by
 6    principals  or sureties on bonds, or proceeds of any sale for
 7    the enforcement of a judgment shall be made to the  clerk  of
 8    the  court,  the  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid,  the
 9    Attorney General, or the appropriate local governmental unit,
10    as the respective provisions of this Section require.
11        (6)  For those cases in which child support is payable to
12    the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  transmittal  to the
13    Illinois Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General  by
14    order   of   court  or  upon  notification  by  the  Illinois
15    Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General,  the  clerk
16    shall  transmit  all  such payments, within 4 working days of
17    receipt, to  ensure  insure  that  funds  are  available  for
18    immediate  distribution  by  the  Department  or the Attorney
19    General  to  the  person  or  entity  entitled   thereto   in
20    accordance  with  standards  of the Child Support Enforcement
21    Program established under Title IV-D of the  Social  Security
22    Act.   The  clerk shall notify the Department or the Attorney
23    General of the date of receipt and amount thereof at the time
24    of  transmittal.   Where  the  clerk  has  entered  into   an
25    agreement  of cooperation with the Department or the Attorney
26    General to record the  terms  of  child  support  orders  and
27    payments  made  thereunder  directly  into  the IV-D Agency's
28    Department's automated  data  processing  system,  the  clerk
29    shall  account  for,  transmit and otherwise distribute child
30    support payments in accordance with such agreement in lieu of
31    the requirements contained herein.
32    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
33        (750 ILCS 45/22) (from Ch. 40, par. 2522)
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 1        Sec.  22.  (a)  In  all  cases  instituted   before   the
 2    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 by the Illinois
 3    Department  of  Public  Aid  on  behalf of a child or spouse,
 4    other than one receiving  a  grant  of  financial  aid  under
 5    Article  IV  of The Illinois Public Aid Code, on whose behalf
 6    an  application  has  been  made  and  approved  for  support
 7    services as provided by Section 10-1 of that Code, the  court
 8    shall  impose  a  collection fee on the individual who owes a
 9    child or spouse support obligation in an amount equal to  10%
10    of  the amount so owed as long as such collection is required
11    by federal law, which fee shall be in addition to the support
12    obligation.   The  imposition  of  such  fee  shall   be   in
13    accordance with provisions of Title IV, Part D, of the Social
14    Security  Act  and  regulations  duly promulgated thereunder.
15    The fee shall be payable to the clerk of  the  circuit  court
16    for  transmittal to the Illinois Department of Public Aid and
17    shall continue until support services are terminated by  that
18    Department, except as otherwise provided in this subsection.
19        If  a collection fee is imposed under this subsection and
20    if, on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
21    1997,  the  child  or  spouse receives support services under
22    Section 7.5 of the Attorney General Act,  the  fee  shall  be
23    payable  to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal to
24    the  Attorney  General  and  shall  continue  until   support
25    services  are terminated by the Attorney General.  Nothing in
26    this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be construed to affect  the
27    validity of any collection fee imposed in accordance with the
28    first paragraph of this subsection.
29        (b)  In  all  cases  instituted on or after the effective
30    date of this amendatory Act of 1997 by the  Attorney  General
31    on  behalf  of  a child or spouse, other than one receiving a
32    grant of financial aid  under  Article  IV  of  the  Illinois
33    Public Aid Code, on whose behalf an application has been made
34    and  approved for support services as provided by Section 7.5
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 1    of the  Attorney  General  Act,  the  court  shall  impose  a
 2    collection  fee  on the individual who owes a child or spouse
 3    support obligation in an amount equal to 10% of the amount so
 4    owed as long as such collection is required by  federal  law,
 5    which  fee  shall  be  in addition to the support obligation.
 6    The imposition of  such  fee  shall  be  in  accordance  with
 7    provisions  of  Title  IV, Part D, of the Social Security Act
 8    and regulations duly promulgated thereunder.  The  fee  shall
 9    be  payable to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal
10    to the Attorney General  and  shall  continue  until  support
11    services are terminated by the Attorney General.
12    (Source: P.A. 83-1372.)
13        (750 ILCS 45/23) (from Ch. 40, par. 2523)
14        Sec.  23.  Notice  to  Clerk  of Circuit Court of Payment
15    Received by Illinois Department of  Public  Aid  or  Attorney
16    General  for  Recording.  For those cases in which support is
17    payable to the clerk of the circuit court for transmittal  to
18    the  Illinois Department of Public Aid by order of court, and
19    the Illinois Department of Public Aid or the Attorney General
20    collects support by assignment offset, withhold, deduction or
21    other process permitted by law, the  Illinois  Department  of
22    Public  Aid or the Attorney General shall notify the clerk of
23    the date and amount of such  collection.  Upon  notification,
24    the  clerk  shall record the collection on the payment record
25    for the case.
26    (Source: P.A. 83-1372.)
27        Section 80.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
28    changing Section 1300 as follows:
29        (820 ILCS 405/1300) (from Ch. 48, par. 540)
30        Sec. 1300.   Waiver  or  transfer  of  benefit  rights  -
31    Partial exemption.
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 1        (A)  Except as otherwise provided herein any agreement by
 2    an  individual  to waive, release or commute his rights under
 3    this Act shall be void.
 4        (B)  Benefits due under this Act shall not  be  assigned,
 5    pledged, encumbered, released or commuted and shall be exempt
 6    from  all  claims  of  creditors and from levy, execution and
 7    attachment or other remedy for recovery or  collection  of  a
 8    debt.   However,  nothing  in  this  Section shall prohibit a
 9    specified or  agreed  upon  deduction  from  benefits  by  an
10    individual,   or   a   court   or  administrative  order  for
11    withholding of income, for payment of past due child  support
12    from  being  enforced  and  collected by the Attorney General
13    Department of Public Aid on behalf  of  persons  receiving  a
14    grant  of  financial  aid  under  Article  IV of The Illinois
15    Public Aid Code, persons for whom  an  application  has  been
16    made  and  approved for support services under Section 7.5 of
17    the Attorney General  Act  10-1  of  such  Code,  or  persons
18    similarly  situated  and  receiving  like support services in
19    other states.   It is provided that:
20             (1)  The aforementioned deduction  of  benefits  and
21        order for withholding of income apply only if appropriate
22        arrangements  have  been  made  for  reimbursement to the
23        Director by the Attorney General Department of Public Aid
24        for any administrative costs  incurred  by  the  Director
25        under this Section.
26             (2)  The  Director  shall  deduct  and withhold from
27        benefits payable under this Act, or under any arrangement
28        for the payment of benefits entered into by the  Director
29        pursuant to the powers granted under Section 2700 of this
30        Act, the amount specified or agreed upon.  In the case of
31        a  court    or  administrative  order  for withholding of
32        income, the Director shall withhold  the  amount  of  the
33        order.
34             (3)  Any   amount   deducted  and  withheld  by  the
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 1        Director shall be paid to the Attorney General Department
 2        of Public Aid on behalf of the individual.
 3             (4)  Any  amount   deducted   and   withheld   under
 4        subsection (3) shall for all purposes be treated as if it
 5        were  paid to the individual as benefits and paid by such
 6        individual to the Attorney General Department  of  Public
 7        Aid  in  satisfaction  of  the individual's child support
 8        obligations.
 9             (5)  For the purpose of this Section, child  support
10        is  defined as those obligations which are being enforced
11        pursuant to a plan described in Title IV, Part D, Section
12        454 of the  Social  Security  Act  and  approved  by  the
13        Secretary of Health and Human Services.
14             (6)  The   deduction   of  benefits  and  order  for
15        withholding of income for child support shall be governed
16        by Titles III and IV of the Social Security Act  and  all
17        regulations duly promulgated thereunder.
18        (C)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
19    voluntarily  electing to have federal income tax deducted and
20    withheld from  his  or  her  unemployment  insurance  benefit
21    payments.
22             (1)  The   Director  shall,  at  the  time  that  an
23        individual files his  or  her  claim  for  benefits  that
24        establishes   his   or   her  benefit  year,  inform  the
25        individual that:
26                  (a)  unemployment  insurance  is   subject   to
27             federal, State, and local income taxes;
28                  (b)  requirements exist pertaining to estimated
29             tax payments;
30                  (c)  the  individual  may elect to have federal
31             income tax deducted and withheld  from  his  or  her
32             payments  of  unemployment  insurance  in the amount
33             specified in the federal Internal Revenue Code; and
34                  (d)  the individual is permitted  to  change  a
                            -239-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1             previously  elected  withholding status no more than
 2             once each calendar year.
 3             (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
 4        insurance shall remain in  the  unemployment  fund  until
 5        transferred  to the federal taxing authority as a payment
 6        of income tax.
 7             (3)  The  Director  shall  follow   all   procedures
 8        specified  by  the  United States Department of Labor and
 9        the federal Internal Revenue Service  pertaining  to  the
10        deducting and withholding of income tax.
11             (4)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
12        accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
13        promulgated by the Director.
14        (D)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
15    voluntarily  electing  to  have  State of Illinois income tax
16    deducted and withheld from his or her unemployment  insurance
17    benefit   payments  if  such  deduction  and  withholding  is
18    provided for pursuant to rules promulgated by the Director.
19             (1)  If  pursuant  to  rules  promulgated   by   the
20        Director,  an  individual  may  voluntarily elect to have
21        State of Illinois income tax deducted and  withheld  from
22        his  or  her unemployment insurance benefit payments, the
23        Director shall, at the time that an individual files  his
24        or  her  claim  for  benefits that establishes his or her
25        benefit  year,  in  addition  to  providing  the   notice
26        required under subsection C, inform the individual that:
27                  (a)  the  individual may elect to have State of
28             Illinois income tax deducted and withheld  from  his
29             or  her  payments  of  unemployment insurance in the
30             amount specified pursuant to  rules  promulgated  by
31             the Director; and
32                  (b)  the  individual  is  permitted to change a
33             previously elected withholding status no  more  than
34             once each calendar year.
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 1             (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
 2        insurance  shall  remain  in  the unemployment fund until
 3        transferred to the Department of Revenue as a payment  of
 4        State of Illinois income tax.
 5             (3)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
 6        accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
 7        promulgated by the Director.
 8        (E)  Nothing  in this Section prohibits the deduction and
 9    withholding of an  uncollected  overissuance  of  food  stamp
10    coupons from unemployment insurance benefits pursuant to this
11    subsection (E).
12             (1)  At  the  time  that an individual files a claim
13        for benefits that establishes his or  her  benefit  year,
14        that  individual  must  disclose whether or not he or she
15        owes an uncollected overissuance (as defined  in  Section
16        13(c)(1)  of  the federal Food Stamp Act of 1977) of food
17        stamp coupons.  The Director shall notify the State  food
18        stamp  agency enforcing such obligation of any individual
19        who  discloses  that  he  or  she  owes  an   uncollected
20        overissuance  of  food  stamp  coupons  and who meets the
21        monetary eligibility  requirements  of  subsection  E  of
22        Section 500.
23             (2)  The Director shall deduct and withhold from any
24        unemployment  insurance benefits payable to an individual
25        who  owes  an  uncollected  overissuance  of  food  stamp
26        coupons:
27                  (a)  the amount specified by the individual  to
28             the  Director to be deducted and withheld under this
29             subsection (E);
30                  (b)  the amount (if any) determined pursuant to
31             an agreement  submitted  to  the  State  food  stamp
32             agency under Section 13(c)(3)(A) of the federal Food
33             Stamp Act of 1977; or
34                  (c)  any   amount   otherwise  required  to  be
                            -241-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1             deducted and withheld  from  unemployment  insurance
 2             benefits  pursuant  to  Section  13(c)(3)(B)  of the
 3             federal Food Stamp Act of 1977.
 4             (3)  Any amount deducted and  withheld  pursuant  to
 5        this  subsection (E) shall be paid by the Director to the
 6        State food stamp agency.
 7             (4)  Any amount deducted and  withheld  pursuant  to
 8        this  subsection (E) shall for all purposes be treated as
 9        if  it  were  paid  to  the  individual  as  unemployment
10        insurance benefits and paid  by  the  individual  to  the
11        State  food stamp agency as repayment of the individual's
12        uncollected overissuance of food stamp coupons.
13             (5)  For   purposes   of   this   subsection    (E),
14        "unemployment  insurance benefits" means any compensation
15        payable under this Act including amounts payable  by  the
16        Director  pursuant  to an agreement under any federal law
17        providing for  compensation,  assistance,  or  allowances
18        with respect to unemployment.
19             (6)  This    subsection    (E)   applies   only   if
20        arrangements have been  made  for  reimbursement  by  the
21        State  food  stamp  agency  for  the administrative costs
22        incurred by the Director under this subsection (E)  which
23        are   attributable   to   the  repayment  of  uncollected
24        overissuances of food stamp coupons  to  the  State  food
25        stamp agency.
26    (Source: P.A. 89-446, eff. 1-1-97; 90-425, eff. 8-15-97.)
27        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
28    becoming law.
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    5 ILCS 405/10
 4    15 ILCS 205/7.1 new
 5    15 ILCS 205/7.5 new
 6    15 ILCS 205/7.10 new
 7    15 ILCS 205/7.15 new
 8    15 ILCS 205/7.20 new
 9    15 ILCS 205/7.25 new
10    15 ILCS 205/7.27 new
11    15 ILCS 205/7.28 new
12    15 ILCS 205/7.30 new
13    15 ILCS 205/7.35 new
14    15 ILCS 205/7.40 new
15    15 ILCS 205/7.45 new
16    15 ILCS 205/7.50 new
17    15 ILCS 205/7.52 new
18    15 ILCS 205/7.55 new
19    15 ILCS 205/7.60 new
20    15 ILCS 205/7.65 new
21    15 ILCS 205/7.70 new
22    15 ILCS 205/7.75 new
23    15 ILCS 205/7.80 new
24    15 ILCS 205/7.85 new
25    15 ILCS 205/7.90 new
26    15 ILCS 205/7.95 new
27    15 ILCS 205/7.100 new
28    15 ILCS 205/7.105 new
29    15 ILCS 205/7.110 new
30    15 ILCS 205/7.115 new
31    15 ILCS 205/7.120 new
32    15 ILCS 205/7.125 new
33    15 ILCS 205/7.130 new
34    15 ILCS 205/7.135 new
                            -243-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1    15 ILCS 205/7.140 new
 2    15 ILCS 205/7.145 new
 3    15 ILCS 205/7.150 new
 4    15 ILCS 205/7.155 new
 5    15 ILCS 205/7.160 new
 6    15 ILCS 205/7.165 new
 7    15 ILCS 205/7.170 new
 8    15 ILCS 205/7.172 new
 9    15 ILCS 205/7.175 new
10    15 ILCS 205/7.180 new
11    15 ILCS 205/7.185 new
12    15 ILCS 205/7.190 new
13    15 ILCS 205/7.195 new
14    15 ILCS 205/7.200 new
15    15 ILCS 205/7.205 new
16    15 ILCS 205/7.210 new
17    15 ILCS 205/7.215 new
18    15 ILCS 205/7.220 new
19    15 ILCS 205/7.221 new
20    15 ILCS 205/7.223 new
21    15 ILCS 205/7.225 new
22    15 ILCS 205/7.230 new
23    15 ILCS 205/7.235 new
24    15 ILCS 205/7.240 new
25    15 ILCS 205/7.245 new
26    15 ILCS 205/7.250 new
27    15 ILCS 205/7.255 new
28    15 ILCS 205/7.260 new
29    15 ILCS 205/7.265 new
30    15 ILCS 205/7.270 new
31    15 ILCS 205/7.275 new
32    15 ILCS 205/7.280 new
33    15 ILCS 205/7.285 new
34    15 ILCS 205/7.290 new
                            -244-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1    15 ILCS 205/7.295 new
 2    5 ILCS 100/10-65          from Ch. 127, par. 1010-65
 3    5 ILCS 220/3              from Ch. 127, par. 743
 4    20 ILCS 1020/35
 5    20 ILCS 2105/60           from Ch. 127, par. 60
 6    20 ILCS 2505/39b52
 7    305 ILCS 5/10-1.5 new
 8    305 ILCS 5/10-21          from Ch. 23, par. 10-21
 9    305 ILCS 5/12-4.7c
10    305 ILCS 5/12-4.31
11    305 ILCS 5/12-10.2        from Ch. 23, par. 12-10.2
12    305 ILCS 5/12-16          from Ch. 23, par. 12-16
13    305 ILCS 5/10-1 rep.
14    305 ILCS 5/10-2 rep.
15    305 ILCS 5/10-3 rep.
16    305 ILCS 5/10-3.1 rep.
17    305 ILCS 5/10-3.2 rep.
18    305 ILCS 5/10-3.3 rep.
19    305 ILCS 5/10-3.4 rep.
20    305 ILCS 5/10-4 rep.
21    305 ILCS 5/10-5 rep.
22    305 ILCS 5/10-6 rep.
23    305 ILCS 5/10-7 rep.
24    305 ILCS 5/10-8 rep.
25    305 ILCS 5/10-8.1 rep.
26    305 ILCS 5/10-9 rep.
27    305 ILCS 5/10-10 rep.
28    305 ILCS 5/10-10.1 rep.
29    305 ILCS 5/10-10.2 rep.
30    305 ILCS 5/10-10.3 rep.
31    305 ILCS 5/10-11 rep.
32    305 ILCS 5/10-11.1 rep.
33    305 ILCS 5/10-12 rep.
34    305 ILCS 5/10-13 rep.
                            -245-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1    305 ILCS 5/10-13.1 rep.
 2    305 ILCS 5/10-13.2 rep.
 3    305 ILCS 5/10-13.3 rep.
 4    305 ILCS 5/10-13.4 rep.
 5    305 ILCS 5/10-13.5 rep.
 6    305 ILCS 5/10-13.6 rep.
 7    305 ILCS 5/10-13.7 rep.
 8    305 ILCS 5/10-13.8 rep.
 9    305 ILCS 5/10-13.9 rep.
10    305 ILCS 5/10-13.10 rep.
11    305 ILCS 5/10-14 rep.
12    305 ILCS 5/10-15 rep.
13    305 ILCS 5/10-16 rep.
14    305 ILCS 5/10-16.2 rep.
15    305 ILCS 5/10-16.3 rep.
16    305 ILCS 5/10-17 rep.
17    305 ILCS 5/10-17.1 rep.
18    305 ILCS 5/10-17.2 rep.
19    305 ILCS 5/10-17.3 rep.
20    305 ILCS 5/10-17.4 rep.
21    305 ILCS 5/10-17.5 rep.
22    305 ILCS 5/10-17.6 rep.
23    305 ILCS 5/10-17.7 rep.
24    305 ILCS 5/10-17.8 rep.
25    305 ILCS 5/10-17.9 rep.
26    305 ILCS 5/10-17.11 rep.
27    305 ILCS 5/10-18 rep.
28    305 ILCS 5/10-19 rep.
29    305 ILCS 5/10-20 rep.
30    305 ILCS 5/10-22 rep.
31    305 ILCS 5/10-23 rep.
32    305 ILCS 5/10-24 rep.
33    305 ILCS 5/10-24.5 rep.
34    305 ILCS 5/10-24.30 rep.
                            -246-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1    305 ILCS 5/10-24.35 rep.
 2    305 ILCS 5/10-24.40 rep.
 3    305 ILCS 5/10-24.45 rep.
 4    305 ILCS 5/10-24.50 rep.
 5    305 ILCS 5/10-25 rep.
 6    305 ILCS 5/10-25.5 rep.
 7    305 ILCS 5/12-4.3 rep.
 8    410 ILCS 535/12           from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-12
 9    410 ILCS 535/17           from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-17
10    410 ILCS 535/22           from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-22
11    515 ILCS 5/20-105         from Ch. 56, par. 20-105
12    520 ILCS 5/3.36           from Ch. 61, par. 3.36
13    625 ILCS 5/7-701
14    625 ILCS 5/7-702
15    625 ILCS 5/7-702.1
16    625 ILCS 5/7-703
17    625 ILCS 5/7-704
18    625 ILCS 5/7-705
19    625 ILCS 5/7-706
20    625 ILCS 5/7-707
21    625 ILCS 5/7-708
22    705 ILCS 205/1            from Ch. 13, par. 1
23    750 ILCS 5/505            from Ch. 40, par. 505
24    750 ILCS 5/505.1          from Ch. 40, par. 505.1
25    750 ILCS 5/505.2          from Ch. 40, par. 505.2
26    750 ILCS 5/507            from Ch. 40, par. 507
27    750 ILCS 5/510            from Ch. 40, par. 510
28    750 ILCS 5/516            from Ch. 40, par. 516
29    750 ILCS 5/705            from Ch. 40, par. 705
30    750 ILCS 5/706.1          from Ch. 40, par. 706.1
31    750 ILCS 5/709            from Ch. 40, par. 709
32    750 ILCS 5/712            from Ch. 40, par. 712
33    750 ILCS 15/2.1           from Ch. 40, par. 1105
34    750 ILCS 15/3             from Ch. 40, par. 1106
                            -247-              LRB9007364SMdv
 1    750 ILCS 15/4             from Ch. 40, par. 1107
 2    750 ILCS 15/4.1           from Ch. 40, par. 1107.1
 3    750 ILCS 15/11            from Ch. 40, par. 1114
 4    750 ILCS 15/12            from Ch. 40, par. 1115
 5    750 ILCS 22/101
 6    750 ILCS 22/102
 7    750 ILCS 22/310
 8    750 ILCS 22/605
 9    750 ILCS 25/5             from Ch. 40, par. 2705
10    750 ILCS 45/4.1
11    750 ILCS 45/5             from Ch. 40, par. 2505
12    750 ILCS 45/6             from Ch. 40, par. 2506
13    750 ILCS 45/8             from Ch. 40, par. 2508
14    750 ILCS 45/11            from Ch. 40, par. 2511
15    750 ILCS 45/13            from Ch. 40, par. 2513
16    750 ILCS 45/13.1
17    750 ILCS 45/14            from Ch. 40, par. 2514
18    750 ILCS 45/15.1          from Ch. 40, par. 2515.1
19    750 ILCS 45/20            from Ch. 40, par. 2520
20    750 ILCS 45/21            from Ch. 40, par. 2521
21    750 ILCS 45/22            from Ch. 40, par. 2522
22    750 ILCS 45/23            from Ch. 40, par. 2523
23    820 ILCS 405/1300         from Ch. 48, par. 540

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