Bill Text: IL HB0557 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the payment of support to the State Disbursement Unit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0557 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB0557-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 10-10.4 as follows:
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| 6 | (305 ILCS 5/10-10.4)
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| 7 | Sec. 10-10.4. Payment of Support to State Disbursement | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Unit.
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| 9 | (a) As used in this Section:
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| 10 | "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and
and "payor" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | mean those terms as
defined in the Income Withholding for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Support Act, except that "order for
support" shall not mean | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | orders providing for spousal maintenance under which
there is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | no child support obligation. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | the contrary, each
court or administrative order for support | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | entered or modified on or after
October 1, 1999 shall require | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | that support payments be made to the State
Disbursement Unit | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | established under Section 10-26 if:
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| 20 | (1) a party to the order is receiving child support
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| 21 | enforcement services
under this Article X; or
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| 22 | (2) no party to the order is receiving child support
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| 23 | enforcement services,
but the support payments are made | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | through income withholding.
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| 2 | (c) Support payments shall be made
to the State | ||||||
| 3 | Disbursement Unit if:
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| 4 | (1) the order for support was entered before October | ||||||
| 5 | 1, 1999, and a party
to the order is receiving child | ||||||
| 6 | support enforcement services
under this Article X; or
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| 7 | (2) no party to the order is receiving child support | ||||||
| 8 | enforcement services, and the support
payments are being | ||||||
| 9 | made through income withholding.
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| 10 | (c-5) If no party to the order is receiving child support
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| 11 | enforcement services under this Article X, and the support | ||||||
| 12 | payments are not
being made
through income withholding, then | ||||||
| 13 | support payments shall be made as directed in
the order for | ||||||
| 14 | support.
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| 15 | (c-10) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of | ||||||
| 16 | an order
directing payments
to be made elsewhere, the | ||||||
| 17 | Department of Healthcare and Family Services may provide | ||||||
| 18 | notice to the
obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's | ||||||
| 19 | payor:
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| 20 | (1) to make support payments to the State Disbursement | ||||||
| 21 | Unit if:
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| 22 | (A) a party to the order for support is receiving | ||||||
| 23 | child support
enforcement services under this Article | ||||||
| 24 | X; or
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| 25 | (B) no party to the order for support is receiving | ||||||
| 26 | child support
enforcement services under this Article | ||||||
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| 1 | X, but the support payments are
made through income | ||||||
| 2 | withholding; or
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| 3 | (2) to make support payments to the State Disbursement | ||||||
| 4 | Unit of another
state upon request of another state's | ||||||
| 5 | Title IV-D child support enforcement
agency, in accordance | ||||||
| 6 | with the requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social
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| 7 | Security Act and regulations promulgated under that Part | ||||||
| 8 | D.
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| 9 | (c-15) Within 15 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
| 10 | amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly, the clerk of the | ||||||
| 11 | circuit court shall provide written
notice to the obligor to | ||||||
| 12 | make payments
directly to the clerk of the circuit court if no | ||||||
| 13 | party to the order is
receiving child
support enforcement | ||||||
| 14 | services under this Article X, the support payments are
not | ||||||
| 15 | made
through income withholding, and the order for support | ||||||
| 16 | requires support payments
to
be made
directly to the clerk of | ||||||
| 17 | the
circuit court.
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| 18 | (c-20) If the State Disbursement Unit receives a support | ||||||
| 19 | payment that was
not
appropriately made to the Unit under this | ||||||
| 20 | Section, the Unit shall immediately
return the
payment to the | ||||||
| 21 | sender, including, if possible, instructions detailing where | ||||||
| 22 | to
send the support payments.
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| 23 | (d) The notices under subsections (c-10) and
(c-15) may be | ||||||
| 24 | sent by ordinary
mail, certified mail, return receipt | ||||||
| 25 | requested, facsimile transmission, or
other electronic | ||||||
| 26 | process, or may be served upon the obligor or payor using any
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| 1 | method provided by law for service of a summons. A copy of the | ||||||
| 2 | notice shall be
provided to the obligee and, when the order for | ||||||
| 3 | support
was entered by the court, to the clerk of the court.
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| 4 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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