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90_HB3189 740 ILCS 125/2 new Amends the Police Search Cost Recovery Act. Authorizes recovery of expenses incurred by a governmental unit in searching for a person for the purpose of enforcing an order for support or maintenance and expenses incurred in bringing an enforcement action. LRB9009414DJdv LRB9009414DJdv 1 AN ACT to amend the Police Search Cost Recovery Act by 2 adding Section 2. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Police Search Cost Recovery Act is 6 amended by adding Section 2 as follows: 7 (740 ILCS 125/2 new) 8 Sec. 2. Refusal to comply with support order. 9 (a) If (i) a governmental unit in this State has 10 expended resources in a search for a person who owes a duty 11 to make payments under a court or administrative order for 12 the support of a child or maintenance of a spouse issued 13 under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and 14 Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and 15 Children Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of 16 Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or 17 the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, whether the order is 18 temporary or final, and (ii) in an action to enforce the 19 order for support or maintenance a court determines that the 20 person had notice of the order and willfully refused to 21 comply with the order, then the court shall order the person 22 to pay to each such governmental unit all of the governmental 23 unit's expenses reasonably incurred in searching for the 24 person and in bringing the enforcement action. 25 (b) Expenses subject to an order under this Section 26 include reasonable attorney's fees, investigatory expenses, 27 litigation expenses, and court costs. 28 (c) An order for the payment of expenses entered under 29 this Section shall include provisions to ensure that all 30 support or maintenance owed to an individual under the order 31 being enforced is paid to that individual before the payment -2- LRB9009414DJdv 1 of any expenses ordered under this Section.