103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB0557

 

Introduced 1/12/2023, by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/10-10.4

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the payment of support to the State Disbursement Unit.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 10-10.4 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/10-10.4)
7    Sec. 10-10.4. Payment of Support to State Disbursement
8Unit.
9    (a) As used in this Section:
10    "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and and "payor"
11mean those terms as defined in the Income Withholding for
12Support Act, except that "order for support" shall not mean
13orders providing for spousal maintenance under which there is
14no child support obligation.
15    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to
16the contrary, each court or administrative order for support
17entered or modified on or after October 1, 1999 shall require
18that support payments be made to the State Disbursement Unit
19established under Section 10-26 if:
20        (1) a party to the order is receiving child support
21    enforcement services under this Article X; or
22        (2) no party to the order is receiving child support
23    enforcement services, but the support payments are made

 

 

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1    through income withholding.
2    (c) Support payments shall be made to the State
3Disbursement Unit if:
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
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.
10    (c-5) If no party to the order is receiving child support
11enforcement services under this Article X, and the support
12payments are not being made through income withholding, then
13support payments shall be made as directed in the order for
14support.
15    (c-10) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of
16an order directing payments to be made elsewhere, the
17Department of Healthcare and Family Services may provide
18notice to the obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's
19payor:
20        (1) to make support payments to the State Disbursement
21    Unit if:
22            (A) a party to the order for support is receiving
23        child support enforcement services under this Article
24        X; or
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
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
7    Security Act and regulations promulgated under that Part
8    D.
9    (c-15) Within 15 days after the effective date of this
10amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, the clerk of the
11circuit court shall provide written notice to the obligor to
12make payments directly to the clerk of the circuit court if no
13party to the order is receiving child support enforcement
14services under this Article X, the support payments are not
15made through income withholding, and the order for support
16requires support payments to be made directly to the clerk of
17the circuit court.
18    (c-20) If the State Disbursement Unit receives a support
19payment that was not appropriately made to the Unit under this
20Section, the Unit shall immediately return the payment to the
21sender, including, if possible, instructions detailing where
22to send the support payments.
23    (d) The notices under subsections (c-10) and (c-15) may be
24sent by ordinary mail, certified mail, return receipt
25requested, facsimile transmission, or other electronic
26process, or may be served upon the obligor or payor using any

 

 

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1method provided by law for service of a summons. A copy of the
2notice shall be provided to the obligee and, when the order for
3support was entered by the court, to the clerk of the court.
4(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)