Bill Text: IL HB2555 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Employment Security Law. Directs the Department of Employment Security to work with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to identify employment opportunities in the State for persons who are in arrears in child support obligations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2555 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2555-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2555 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1005/1005-130 was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.14
Amends the Department of Employment Security Law. Directs the Department of Employment Security to work with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to identify employment opportunities in the State for persons who are in arrears in child support obligations.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Employment Security Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
Section 1005-130 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-130) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.14)
Sec. 1005-130. Exchange of information for child support
enforcement.
(a) The Department has the power to exchange with the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services information that
may be necessary for the enforcement of child support orders
entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois
Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of
Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the
Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the Illinois Parentage
Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015.
(b) Notwithstanding any provisions in the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois to the contrary, the Department
of Employment Security shall not be liable to any person for
any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare
and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public

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Aid) under subsection (a) or for any other action taken in good
faith to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).
(c) The Department shall work with the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services to identify employment
opportunities in the State for persons who are in arrears in
child support obligations. The Department shall share the
identified opportunities with the public on its
IllinoisJobLink.com system or a successor website system to
allow job seekers to search online for employment opportunities
that match the skills of the persons seeking employment.
(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16.)