Bill Text: IL HB5309 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Parentage Act of 2015. Provides that a civil or administrative proceeding may be maintained to adjudicate the parentage of a child and allocate parent responsibilities under this Act. Provides that nothing in the presumption of parentage Section may be construed as to limit the rights of an unmarried parent.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB5309 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5309-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5309 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
750 ILCS 46/204
750 ILCS 46/601
Amends the Parentage Act of 2015. Provides that a civil or administrative proceeding may be maintained to adjudicate the parentage of a child and allocate parent responsibilities under this Act. Provides that nothing in the presumption of parentage Section may be construed as to limit the rights of an unmarried parent.
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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 1. This Act may be referred to as the Good Dad's
Act.
Section 5. The Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 is amended
by changing Sections 204 and 601 as follows:
(750 ILCS 46/204)
Sec. 204. Presumption of parentage.
(a) A person is presumed to be the parent of a child if:
(1) the person and the mother of the child have
entered into a marriage, civil union, or substantially
similar legal relationship, and the child is born to the
mother during the marriage, civil union, or substantially
similar legal relationship, except as provided in the
Gestational Surrogacy Act or other law;
(2) the person and the mother of the child were in a
marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
relationship and the child is born to the mother within
300 days after the marriage, civil union, or substantially
similar legal relationship is terminated by death,
declaration of invalidity of marriage, judgment for

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dissolution of marriage, civil union, or substantially
similar legal relationship, or after a judgment for legal
separation, except as provided in the Gestational
Surrogacy Act or other law;
(3) before the birth of the child, the person and the
mother of the child entered into a marriage, civil union,
or substantially similar legal relationship in apparent
compliance with law, even if the attempted marriage, civil
union, or substantially similar legal relationship is or
could be declared invalid, and the child is born during
the invalid marriage, civil union, or substantially
similar legal relationship or within 300 days after its
termination by death, declaration of invalidity of
marriage, judgment for dissolution of marriage, civil
union, or substantially similar legal relationship, or
after a judgment for legal separation, except as provided
in the Gestational Surrogacy Act or other law; or
(4) after the child's birth, the person and the
child's mother have entered into a marriage, civil union,
or substantially similar legal relationship, even if the
marriage, civil union, or substantially similar legal
relationship is or could be declared invalid, and the
person is named, with the person's written consent, as the
child's parent on the child's birth certificate.
(b) If 2 or more conflicting presumptions arise under this
Section, the presumption which on the facts is founded on the

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weightier considerations of policy and logic, especially the
policy of promoting the child's best interests, controls.
(c) Nothing in this Section may be construed as to limit
the rights of an unmarried parent.
(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16; 99-769, eff. 1-1-17.)