102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1416

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/10-1  from Ch. 23, par. 10-1

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning public policy with respect to the determination and enforcement of the support responsibility of relatives.


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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 10-1 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/10-1)  (from Ch. 23, par. 10-1)
7    Sec. 10-1. Declaration of Public Policy - Persons Eligible
8for Child Support Enforcement Services - Fees for
9Non-Applicants and and Non-Recipients.) It is the intent of
10this Code that the financial aid and social welfare services
11herein provided supplement rather than supplant the primary
12and continuing obligation of the family unit for self-support
13to the fullest extent permitted by the resources available to
14it. This primary and continuing obligation applies whether the
15family unit of parents and children or of husband and wife
16remains intact and resides in a common household or whether
17the unit has been broken by absence of one or more members of
18the unit. The obligation of the family unit is particularly
19applicable when a member is in necessitous circumstances and
20lacks the means of a livelihood compatible with health and
21well-being.
22    It is the purpose of this Article to provide for locating
23an absent parent or spouse, for determining his financial

 

 

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1circumstances, and for enforcing his legal obligation of
2support, if he is able to furnish support, in whole or in part.
3The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall give
4priority to establishing, enforcing and collecting the current
5support obligation, and then to past due support owed to the
6family unit, except with respect to collections effected
7through the intercept programs provided for in this Article.
8    The child support enforcement services provided hereunder
9shall be furnished dependents of an absent parent or spouse
10who are applicants for or recipients of financial aid under
11this Code. It is not, however, a condition of eligibility for
12financial aid that there be no responsible relatives who are
13reasonably able to provide support. Nor, except as provided in
14Sections 4-1.7 and 10-8, shall the existence of such relatives
15or their payment of support contributions disqualify a needy
16person for financial aid.
17    By accepting financial aid under this Code, a spouse or a
18parent or other person having custody of a child shall be
19deemed to have made assignment to the Illinois Department for
20aid under Articles III, IV, V and VII or to a local
21governmental unit for aid under Article VI of any and all
22rights, title, and interest in any support obligation,
23including statutory interest thereon, up to the amount of
24financial aid provided. The rights to support assigned to the
25Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
26Illinois Department of Public Aid) or local governmental unit

 

 

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1shall constitute an obligation owed the State or local
2governmental unit by the person who is responsible for
3providing the support, and shall be collectible under all
4applicable processes.
5    The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
6also furnish the child support enforcement services
7established under this Article in behalf of persons who are
8not applicants for or recipients of financial aid under this
9Code in accordance with the requirements of Title IV, Part D of
10the Social Security Act. The Department may establish a
11schedule of reasonable fees, to be paid for the services
12provided and may deduct a collection fee, not to exceed 10% of
13the amount collected, from such collection. The Department of
14Healthcare and Family Services shall cause to be published and
15distributed publications reasonably calculated to inform the
16public that individuals who are not recipients of or
17applicants for public aid under this Code are eligible for the
18child support enforcement services under this Article X. Such
19publications shall set forth an explanation, in plain
20language, that the child support enforcement services program
21is independent of any public aid program under the Code and
22that the receiving of child support enforcement services in no
23way implies that the person receiving such services is
24receiving public aid.
25(Source: P.A. 94-90, eff. 1-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)