Bill Text: IL HB3376 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Requires proof that each party to the marriage has attained the age of 18 years in order to obtain a license to marry and a marriage certificate from the county clerk. Deletes language allowing proof that each party to the marriage will have attained the age of 18 years at the time the marriage license is effective or will have attained the age of 16 years and has either the consent to the marriage of both parents or his guardian or judicial approval. Repeals a provision regarding judicial approval of underage marriages. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll [HB3376 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3376-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB3376 Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
750 ILCS 5/203 from Ch. 40, par. 203
750 ILCS 5/208 rep.
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Requires proof that each party to the marriage has attained the age of 18 years in order to obtain a license to marry and a marriage certificate from the county clerk. Deletes language allowing proof that each party to the marriage will have attained the age of 18 years at the time the marriage license is effective or will have attained the age of 16 years and has either the consent to the marriage of both parents or his guardian or judicial approval. Repeals a provision regarding judicial approval of underage marriages. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 203 as follows:
(750 ILCS 5/203) (from Ch. 40, par. 203)
Sec. 203. License to Marry. When a marriage application
has been completed and signed by both parties to a prospective
marriage and both parties have appeared before the county
clerk and the marriage license fee has been paid, the county
clerk shall issue a license to marry and a marriage
certificate form upon being furnished:
(1) satisfactory proof that each party to the marriage
has will have attained the age of 18 years at the time the
marriage license is effective or will have attained the
age of 16 years and has either the consent to the marriage
of both parents or his guardian or judicial approval;
provided, if one parent cannot be located in order to
obtain such consent and diligent efforts have been made to
locate that parent by the consenting parent, then the
consent of one parent plus a signed affidavit by the
consenting parent which (i) names the absent parent and
states that he or she cannot be located, and (ii) states

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what diligent efforts have been made to locate the absent
parent, shall have the effect of both parents' consent for
purposes of this Section;
(2) satisfactory proof that the marriage is not
prohibited; and
(3) an affidavit or record as prescribed in
subparagraph (1) of Section 205 or a court order as
prescribed in subparagraph (2) of Section 205, if
applicable.
With each marriage license, the county clerk shall provide
a pamphlet describing the causes and effects of fetal alcohol
syndrome. At least annually, the county board shall submit to
the Illinois Department of Public Health a report as to the
county clerk's compliance with the requirement that the county
clerk provide a pamphlet with each marriage license. All
funding and production costs for the aforementioned
educational pamphlets for distribution to each county clerk
shall be provided by non-profit, non-sectarian statewide
programs that provide education, advocacy, support, and
prevention services pertaining to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
(Source: P.A. 96-1323, eff. 1-1-11.)
(750 ILCS 5/208 rep.)
Section 10. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act is amended by repealing Section 208.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.