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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 102
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 102,  on  page  1,
 3    lines  2  and 6, by changing "Section 18" wherever it appears
 4    to "Sections 9.1 and 18"; and
 5    on page 1, by inserting between lines 6 and 7 the following:
 6        "(750 ILCS 45/9.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 2509.1)
 7        Sec. 9.1.  Notice to Presumed Father. (a) In  any  action
 8    brought  under  Section  6  or  7  of  this Act where the man
 9    signing the petition for an order establishing the  existence
10    of  the  parent  and child relationship by consent or the man
11    alleged to be the father in a complaint is different  from  a
12    man  who  is presumed to be father of the child under Section
13    5, a notice shall be served on the  presumed  father  in  the
14    same   manner   as   summonses  are  served  in  other  civil
15    proceedings or, in lieu of personal service, service  may  be
16    made as follows:
17        (1)  The  person requesting notice shall pay to the Clerk
18    of the Court a mailing fee of $1.50 and furnish to the  Clerk
19    an  original  and  one  copy  of  a  notice  together with an
20    affidavit setting forth  the  presumed  father's  last  known
21    address.  The original notice shall be retained by the Clerk.
22        (2)  The  Clerk  shall  promptly  mail  to  the  presumed
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 1    father,  at  the address appearing in the affidavit, the copy
 2    of the notice, certified mail, return receipt requested.  The
 3    envelope and return receipt shall bear the return address  of
 4    the  Clerk.   The  receipt for certified mail shall state the
 5    name and address of the addressee, and the date  of  mailing,
 6    and shall be attached to the original notice.
 7        (3)  The  return  receipt,  when  returned  to the Clerk,
 8    shall  be  attached  to  the  original  notice,   and   shall
 9    constitute proof of service.
10        (4)  The  Clerk  shall  note  the  fact  of  service in a
11    permanent record.
12        (b)  The notice shall read as follows:
13        IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE TO .......... PRESUMED FATHER.
14        You have  been  identified  as  the  presumed  father  of
15    ......... born on .........
16        The mother of the child is .........
17        An  action  is  being brought to establish the parent and
18    child relationship between the named child and a man named by
19    the mother, .........
20        Under the law, you are presumed to be the father  if  (1)
21    you  and  the child's mother are or have been married to each
22    other, and  the  child  was  born  or  conceived  during  the
23    marriage;  or  if  (2)  upon  the  child's birth, you and the
24    child's mother married each other and you  were  named,  with
25    your  consent,  as  the  child's  father on the child's birth
26    certificate.
27        As the presumed father, you  have  certain  legal  rights
28    with  respect  to  the  named  child,  including the right to
29    notice of  the  filing  of  proceedings  instituted  for  the
30    establishment  of parentage of said child and if named as the
31    father in a petition to establish  parentage,  the  right  to
32    submit,  along with the mother and child, to deoxyribonucleic
33    acid (DNA) tests to determine inherited characteristics.   If
34    you  wish  to  retain your rights with respect to said child,
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 1    you must file  with  the  Clerk  of  this  Circuit  Court  of
 2    .........   County,   Illinois  whose  address  is  ........,
 3    Illinois, within 30 days after the date of  receipt  of  this
 4    notice,  a  declaration of parentage stating that you are, in
 5    fact, the father of said child and that you intend to  retain
 6    your  legal  rights with respect to said child, or request to
 7    be notified of any further proceedings with  respect  to  the
 8    parentage of said child.
 9        If  you  do  not file such declaration of parentage, or a
10    request for notice, then whatever legal rights you have  with
11    respect  to the named child, including the right to notice of
12    any future proceedings for the establishment of parentage  of
13    the  child,  may  be terminated without any further notice to
14    you.  When your legal rights with respect to the named  child
15    are  so terminated, you will not be entitled to notice of any
16    future proceedings.
17        (c)  The notice to presumed fathers provided for in  this
18    Section  in  any  action  brought by a public agency shall be
19    prepared and mailed by such public agency and the mailing fee
20    to the Clerk shall be waived.
21    (Source: P.A. 84-848.)"; and
22    on page 2, by replacing lines 3 through 6 with the following:
23        "(c)  The Court may shall appoint the Public Defender, or
24    if there is no Public Defender other counsel, to".

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