Bill Text: IL SB1062 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the order for standby adoption.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1062 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1062-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1062 Introduced 1/24/2013, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
750 ILCS 50/13.1
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the order for standby adoption.
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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 Adoption Act is amended by changing Section
13.1 as follows:
(750 ILCS 50/13.1)
Sec. 13.1. Order for standby adoption.
(a) If it is proved to the the satisfaction of the court,
after such investigation as the court deems necessary, that the
child's parent consents to or fails to object to the standby
adoption and adoption by the petitioner will be for the welfare
of the child, the court may enter an order for standby
adoption. However, the consenting parent's parental rights may
not be terminated until consent becomes effective.
(b) The order for standby adoption shall be final as to all
findings and shall be followed in the judgment of adoption
unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that it
is no longer in the best interest of the child for the adoption
to be finalized.
(c) Once the standby adoptive parent receives knowledge of
the death of the consenting parent, or the consenting parent
requests that a final judgment for adoption be entered, the
standby adoptive parent shall have 60 days to apply for a

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judgment for adoption.
(Source: P.A. 93-732, eff. 1-1-05.)