Bill Text: IL HB3057 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund held by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, expands the purposes of the Fund to include making immediate payment of fees to the State Registrar of Vital Records, local registrars of vital records, or other public officials and keepers of voluntary acknowledgement of paternity forms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3057 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3057-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3057 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/12-8 from Ch. 23, par. 12-8
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund held by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, expands the purposes of the Fund to include making immediate payment of fees to the State Registrar of Vital Records, local registrars of vital records, or other public officials and keepers of voluntary acknowledgement of paternity forms.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 12-8 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/12-8) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-8)
Sec. 12-8. Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund -
Uses. The Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund,
established by Act approved July 8, 1955 shall be held by the
Illinois Department and shall be used for the following
purposes:
1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants in
acute need who have been determined eligible for aid under
Articles III, IV, or V.
2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said
Articles who have failed to receive their grants because
of mail box or other thefts, or who are victims of a
burnout, eviction, or other circumstances causing
privation, in which cases the delays incident to the
issuance of grants from appropriations would cause
hardship and suffering.
3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals
and lodging to applicants who are referred to cities other

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than where they reside for physical examinations to
establish blindness or disability, or to determine the
incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.
4. To provide emergency transportation expense
allowances to recipients engaged in vocational training
and rehabilitation projects.
5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining copies
of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage
licenses or other similar legal documents which may
facilitate the verification of eligibility for public aid
under this Code.
6. To provide immediate payments to current or former
recipients of child support enforcement services, or
refunds to responsible relatives, for child support made
to the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social
Security Act when such recipients of services or
responsible relatives are legally entitled to all or part
of such child support payments under applicable State or
federal law.
7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of
transportation to and from medical care for the benefit of
recipients under Articles III, IV, V, and VI.
8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows:
(A) To sheriffs and other public officials
authorized by law to serve process in judicial and
administrative child support actions in the State of

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Illinois and other states.
(B) To county clerks, recorders of deeds, and
other public officials and keepers of real property
records in order to perfect and release real property
liens.
(C) To State and local officials in connection
with the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic
Relations Orders.
(D) To the State Registrar of Vital Records, local
registrars of vital records, or other public officials
and keepers of voluntary acknowledgement of paternity
forms.
Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency
Revolving Fund shall be made by the Illinois Department.
Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency
Revolving Fund shall be for purposes which are properly
chargeable to appropriations made to the Illinois Department,
or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8, to the
Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support
Administrative Fund, except that no expenditure, other than
payment of the fees provided for under subparagraph 8 of this
Section, shall be made for purposes which are properly
chargeable to appropriations for the following objects:
personal services; extra help; state contributions to
retirement system; state contributions to Social Security;
state contributions for employee group insurance; contractual

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services; travel; commodities; printing; equipment; electronic
data processing; operation of auto equipment;
telecommunications services; library books; and refunds. The
Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public Assistance
Emergency Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the State
Comptroller on the appropriation or appropriations which are
so chargeable, or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs
6 and 8, by warrants drawn on the Child Support Enforcement
Trust Fund or the Child Support Administrative Fund, payable
to the Revolving Fund.
(Source: P.A. 97-735, eff. 7-3-12.)