Bill Text: IL HB2280 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning jurisdiction and venue.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2280 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB2280-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB2280 Introduced , by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
750 ILCS 50/4 from Ch. 40, par. 1505
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning jurisdiction and venue.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing Section
4 as follows:
(750 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 40, par. 1505)
Sec. 4. Jurisdiction and venue. An adoption proceeding may
be commenced in the the circuit court of the county in which
petitioners reside, or the county in which the person to be
adopted resides, or was born, or the county in which the
parents of such person reside, provided, however, if an agency
has acquired the custody and control of a child and such agency
is authorized to consent to the adoption of such child, the
proceeding may be commenced in any county, and provided further
that if a guardian of the person of such child has been
appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the proceeding
may be commenced in any county.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3308.)