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91_HB0934
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
2 Marriage Act by changing Section 505.1 as follows:
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
6 Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 505.1 as follows:
7 (750 ILCS 5/505.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 505.1)
8 Sec. 505.1. (a) Whenever it is determined in a
9 proceeding to establish or enforce a child support or
10 maintenance obligation that the person owing a duty of
11 support is unemployed, the court may order the person to seek
12 employment and report periodically to the court with a diary,
13 listing or other memorandum of his or her efforts in
14 accordance with the such order. Additionally, the court may
15 order the unemployed person to report to the Department of
16 Employment Security for job search services or to make
17 application with the local Job Jobs Training Partnership Act
18 provider for participation in job search, training or work
19 programs and where the duty of support is owed to a child
20 receiving support services under Article X of the Illinois
21 Public Aid Code, as amended, the court may order the
22 unemployed person to report to the Illinois Department of
23 Public Aid for participation in job search, training or work
24 programs established under Section 9-6 and Article IXA of
25 that Code.
26 (b) Whenever it is determined that a person owes
27 past-due support for a child or for a child and the parent
28 with whom the child is living, and the child is receiving
29 assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the court
30 shall order at the request of the Illinois Department of
31 Public Aid:
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1 (1) that the person pay the past-due support in
2 accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
3 (2) if the person owing past-due support is
4 unemployed, is subject to such a plan, and is not
5 incapacitated, that the person participate in such job
6 search, training, or work programs established under
7 Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the Illinois Public Aid
8 Code as the court deems appropriate.
9 (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; revised 10-31-98.)