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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5140
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 5140 by replacing
3 lines 13 through 33 on page 2 and lines 1 through 17 on page
4 3 with the following:
5 "Section 10. Plan for Unified Child Support Services.
6 (a) By July 1, 2003 and by July 1 of each subsequent
7 year, a State's Attorney may submit to the Department a Plan
8 for a Unified Child Support Services Program that includes
9 all of the components set forth in Section 15 of this Act and
10 that includes a projected budget of the necessary and
11 reasonable direct and indirect costs for operation of the
12 Program. The Plan may provide for phasing in the Program with
13 different implementation dates.
14 (b) By December 1 of the year in which a Plan is
15 submitted, the Department shall approve or reject the Plan.
16 If the Plan is approved, the Department and the State's
17 Attorney shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement
18 incorporating the Plan, subject to the approval of the
19 Attorney General and the appropriate county board. If the
20 Plan is rejected, the Department must set forth (i) specific
21 reasons that the Plan fails to satisfy the specific goals and
22 requirements of this Act or other State or federal
23 requirements and (ii) specific reasons that the necessary and
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1 reasonable costs for operation of the Plan could not be
2 agreed upon.
3 (c) Any State's Attorney who submits a Plan pursuant to
4 this Act shall commit to manage the Program for a period of
5 no less than 3 years.
6 (d) If a Plan is rejected, or if for any reason an
7 intergovernmental agreement is not signed, the prior
8 agreement under this Act shall continue in effect until a new
9 intergovernmental agreement is signed or the agreement is
10 terminated.
11 (e) The Department may impose a restriction that no more
12 than 3 State's Attorneys may begin operating a Program in a
13 given year. The Department shall develop a procedure for fair
14 and orderly consideration of Plans as they are submitted or
15 as interest by a State's Attorney is otherwise demonstrated.
16 (f) In any county in which a Unified Child Support
17 Services Program is operating, the Clerk of the Circuit Court
18 may submit to the Department a plan for filing, recording,
19 and making available for retrieval all administrative orders
20 of parentage and administrative orders setting, modifying, or
21 terminating child support obligations for all IV-D cases
22 pending in the county on the implementation date of the
23 Program and all new cases in the IV-D Child Support Program.
24 The Department shall approve or reject the plan, according to
25 the criteria set forth in subsection (b), and shall enter
26 into the appropriate intergovernmental agreement
27 incorporating the plan unless the Department can demonstrate
28 that it has an alternative approach."; and
29 on page 5, line 3, by replacing "Identifying" with "Obtaining
30 identified"; and
31 on page 5, line 10, by replacing "Providing" with "Obtaining
32 information to provide"; and
33 on page 5, by replacing lines 18 through 21 with the
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1 following:
2 "a current child support case."; and
3 on page 6, line 2, after "an", by inserting "impartial and
4 independent"; and
5 on page 6, line 16, by replacing "this Act" with "the
6 approved Plan"; and
7 on page 7, line 14, before the comma, by inserting "and a
8 designated representative of the Illinois State's Attorneys
9 Association"; and
10 on page 9, by replacing lines 4 through 11 with the
11 following:
12 (c) In all counties, whether or not the State's Attorney
13 in a county is operating a Program, the Department must, at
14 a"; and
15 on page 9, line 22, before the period, by inserting the
16 following:
17 ", including the responsibility (i) for entering and editing
18 data for activities being conducted by the Department with
19 respect to a current child support case and (ii) for having
20 conflicting or incorrect data reconciled with respect to
21 those activities"; and
22 on page 10, line 17, by changing "(e)" to "(d)".