Public Act 097-0735
 
SB2820 EnrolledLRB097 15710 KTG 61082 b

    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 12-8 as follows:
 
    (305 ILCS 5/12-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 12-8)
    Sec. 12-8. Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund -
Uses. The Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund,
established by Act approved July 8, 1955 shall be held by the
Illinois Department and shall be used for the following
purposes:
        1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants in
    acute need who have been determined eligible for aid under
    Articles III, IV, or V.
        2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said
    Articles who have failed to receive their grants because of
    mail box or other thefts, or who are victims of a burnout,
    eviction, or other circumstances causing privation, in
    which cases the delays incident to the issuance of grants
    from appropriations would cause hardship and suffering.
        3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals
    and lodging to applicants who are referred to cities other
    than where they reside for physical examinations to
    establish blindness or disability, or to determine the
    incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.
        4. To provide emergency transportation expense
    allowances to recipients engaged in vocational training
    and rehabilitation projects.
        5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining copies
    of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage
    licenses or other similar legal documents which may
    facilitate the verification of eligibility for public aid
    under this Code.
        6. To provide immediate payments to current or former
    recipients of child support enforcement services, or
    refunds to responsible relatives, for child support made to
    the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social
    Security Act when such recipients of services or
    responsible relatives are legally entitled to all or part
    of such child support payments under applicable State or
    federal law.
        7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of
    transportation to and from medical care for the benefit of
    recipients under Articles III, IV, V, and VI.
        8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows:
            (A) To sheriffs and other public officials
        authorized by law to serve process in judicial and
        administrative child support actions in the State of
        Illinois and other states.
            (B) To county clerks, recorders of deeds, and other
        public officials and keepers of real property records
        in order to perfect and release real property liens.
            (C) To State and local officials in connection with
        the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic
        Relations Orders.
    Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency
Revolving Fund shall be made by the Illinois Department.
    Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency
Revolving Fund shall be for purposes which are properly
chargeable to appropriations made to the Illinois Department,
or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8
subparagraph 6, to the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or
the Child Support Administrative Fund, except that no
expenditure, other than payment of the fees provided for under
subparagraph 8 of this Section, shall be made for purposes
which are properly chargeable to appropriations for the
following objects: personal services; extra help; state
contributions to retirement system; state contributions to
Social Security; state contributions for employee group
insurance; contractual services; travel; commodities;
printing; equipment; electronic data processing; operation of
auto equipment; telecommunications services; library books;
and refunds. The Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public
Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the
State Comptroller on the appropriation or appropriations which
are so chargeable, or, in the case of payments under
subparagraphs 6 and 8 subparagraph 6, by warrants drawn on the
Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support
Administrative Fund, payable to the Revolving Fund.
(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02; 92-590, eff. 7-1-02; 93-632,
eff. 2-1-04.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.