House Sponsors: STROGER-FRITCHEY-MCAULIFFE-ACEVEDO-BURKE, BUGIELSKI AND CAPPARELLI. Senate Sponsors: MUNOZ-DUDYCZ Short description: LOCAL GOV-WAGE DEDUCTIONS Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Counties Code. Allows the wages of an employee of a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more to be withheld to pay debts owing to a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more. Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, the Chicago Park District Act, the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, the School Code, the Housing Authorities Act, and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act to allow the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Transit Authority, a school board, a housing authority in a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, and other employers to withhold an employee's wages to pay debts owing to a municipality with a popula- tion of 500,000 or more or to a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Allows a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more to withhold an employee's wages to pay debts owing to a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes everything. Amends the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act, the Chicago Park District Act, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, the School Code, the Housing Authorities Act, and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Allows a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more, a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, and a housing authority of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more to deduct debts owed to another of those entities from the wages of its employees. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3. Further amends the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act, the Chicago Park District Act, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, the School Code, the Housing Authorities Act, and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that a county, a municipality, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or a housing authority may not deduct amounts for the payment of certain debts from the wages of employees of another of those entities unless the municipality, the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or a housing authority certifies that the employee has received notice of a wage deduction order and has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing to object to the order. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0109 Last action date: JUL-20-2001 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 2 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status