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90_SB0034
20 ILCS 505/12.3 new
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires
the Department of Children and Family Services to make grants
to persons who adopt a child to pay the cost of health
insurance for the adopted child for a period of 2 years after
the date of the adoption if the child has certain preexisting
conditions and the lack of a grant would subject to the
adopted child and adoptive parents to undue financial
hardship. Requires the Department to establish eligibility
criteria. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Children and Family Services Act by
2 adding Section 12.3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is
6 amended by adding Section 12.3 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 505/12.3 new)
8 Sec. 12.3. Health insurance subsidy. To make grants to
9 persons who adopt a child to pay the cost of accident and
10 health insurance for adopted children for a period of 2 years
11 after the date of the adoption under the following
12 conditions:
13 (1) the adopted child has a condition that would cause
14 the child to be uninsurable except for the application of
15 Section 356h of the Illinois Insurance Code; and
16 (2) without the grant the adopted child and the persons
17 who adopted the child would be subject to undue financial
18 hardship.
19 The Department shall promulgate rules establishing
20 eligibility criteria for the grants authorized by this
21 Section.
22 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.