Bill Text: IL SB0257 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Changes the definition of "protective order" to include substantially similar protective orders issued by the court of another state, tribe, or United States territory or military tribunal. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a petition for a civil no contact order or a petition for a stalking no contact order may be filed by a service member of the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving within the State who is a victim of non-consensual sexual conduct who has also received a Military Protective Order or the Staff Judge Advocate of the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving in the State on behalf of a named victim who is a victim of non-consensual sexual conduct who has also received a Military Protective Order. Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Requires the Illinois National Guard to file a certified copy of any military order of protection with the clerk of the court in a judicial circuit in which the person entitled to protection resides or if the person entitled to protection is not a State resident, in a judicial circuit in which it is believed that enforcement may be necessary. Amends the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act. Provides that an employer shall not fail to hire, refuse to hire, discharge, constructively discharge, or harass any individual, otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the individual, or retaliate against an individual in any form or manner, and a public agency shall not deny, reduce, or terminate the benefits of, otherwise sanction, or harass any individual, otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the amount, terms, or conditions of public assistance of the individual, or retaliate against an individual in any form or manner, because the individual involved attended, participated in, prepared for, requested leave to attend, participate in, or prepare for a court-martial or nonjudicial punishment proceeding pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice relating to an incident of domestic violence, sexual violence, gender violence, or any criminal violence of which the individual or a family or household member of the individual was a victim, or requested or took leave for any other reason. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-24 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Steve Stadelman [SB0257 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0257-Engrossed.html



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1 AN ACT concerning civil law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
5Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 607.6 as follows:
6 (750 ILCS 5/607.6)
7 Sec. 607.6. Court-ordered counseling. Counseling.
8 (a) The court may order individual counseling for the
9child, family counseling for one or more of the parties and the
10child, or parental education for one or more of the parties, if
11it finds one or more of the following:
12 (1) both parents or all parties agree to the order;
13 (2) the child's physical health is endangered or that
14 the child's emotional development is impaired;
15 (3) abuse of allocated parenting time under Section
16 607.5 has occurred; or
17 (4) one or both of the parties have violated the
18 allocation judgment with regard to conduct affecting or in
19 the presence of the child.
20 (b) The court may apportion the costs of counseling
21between the parties as appropriate.
22 (c) The remedies provided in this Section are in addition
23to, and do not diminish or abridge in any way, the court's

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1power to exercise its authority through contempt or other
2proceedings.
3 (d) Counseling ordered under this Section is subject to
4the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
5Confidentiality Act and the federal Health Insurance
6Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. All counseling
7sessions shall be confidential. The communications in
8counseling shall not be used in any manner in litigation nor
9relied upon by any expert appointed by the court or retained by
10any party.
11(Source: P.A. 99-763, eff. 1-1-17.)
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.
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