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91_HR0462
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, On July 20, 1999, the Governor signed into law
3 Senate Bill 1063 (Public Act 91-212) in order to bring
4 Illinois into compliance with the Personal Responsibility and
5 Work Reconciliation Act of 1996 which mandated that the State
6 of Illinois establish a State Disbursement Unit by October 1,
7 1999; and
8 WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1063 created the State Disbursement
9 Unit on October 1, 1999, centralizing the collection of child
10 support payments through one agency in DuPage County rather
11 than through 102 separate Circuit Clerk Offices throughout
12 the State; and
13 WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Public Aid was
14 required to inform those who would be affected by the changes
15 in child support payments caused by Senate Bill 1063; and
16 WHEREAS, In the month of October 1999 the State
17 Disbursement Unit, under the direction of the Illinois
18 Department of Public Aid, was unable to issue thousands of
19 child support payments due to insufficient data from
20 employers, lack of communication with numerous circuit court
21 clerks, and seriously underestimating the magnitude of the
22 problems we are now experiencing with the centralized system;
23 therefore, be it
24 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
25 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
26 we urge the Illinois Department of Public Aid and the
27 Governor of the State of Illinois to continue to provide
28 immediate relief for families whose child support payments
29 have been been deferred and delayed, and to immediately
30 initiate and develop a plan with the federal government that
31 will enable the Department to take steps to reduce the
32 workload at the State Disbursement Unit to allow time for the
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1 Unit, in cooperation with employers and Circuit Clerks, to
2 correct the start-up problems that are causing delays in
3 payments to children and families; and be it further
4 RESOLVED, That, in accordance with a motion of the
5 Illinois Association of Circuit Court Clerks (IACCC),
6 approved and adopted October 22, 1999, we recommend that
7 policies and procedures be adopted to allow the Circuit
8 Clerks of the State of Illinois to resume duties of
9 collection and disbursement of child support payments where
10 needed and to the extent necessary to ensure timely and
11 effective processing and distribution of such payments.