Bill Text: IL HB0249 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the time for taking a consent or surrender.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0249 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB0249-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 9 as follows:
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| 6 | (750 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 40, par. 1511)
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| 7 | Sec. 9. Time for
signing a waiver, consent, or surrender.
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| 8 | A. A consent or a surrender signed not less than 72 hours | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | after the
the birth
of the child is irrevocable except as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | provided in Section 11 of this Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | B. No consent or surrender shall be signed within the 72 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | hour period
immediately following the birth of the child.
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| 13 | C. A consent or a surrender may be signed by the father | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | prior to the
birth of the child. Such consent or surrender | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | shall be revoked if, within
72 hours after the birth of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | child, the father who gave such consent or
surrender, notifies | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | in writing the person, agency or court representative
who | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | acknowledged the surrender or consent or any individual | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | representing or
connected with such person, agency or court | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | representative of the
revocation of the consent or surrender.
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| 21 | D. Any consent or surrender signed in accordance with | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | paragraph C above
which is not revoked within 72 hours after | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | the birth of the child is
irrevocable except as provided in | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Section 11 of this Act.
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| 2 | E. Consent may be given to a standby adoption by a parent
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| 3 | whose
consent is required pursuant to Section 8 of this Act to | ||||||
| 4 | become effective when
the consenting parent of the child dies | ||||||
| 5 | or that parent requests that the final
judgment of
adoption be | ||||||
| 6 | entered.
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| 7 | F. A waiver as provided in subsection S of Section 10 of | ||||||
| 8 | this Act may be signed by a putative father or legal father of | ||||||
| 9 | the child at any time prior to or after the birth of the child. | ||||||
| 10 | A waiver is irrevocable except as provided in Section 11 of | ||||||
| 11 | this Act. | ||||||
| 12 | (Source: P.A. 97-493, eff. 8-22-11.)
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