HB 4387

Abstract

Creates the Department of Child Support Services Act. Creates the Department of Child Support Services and the position of Director of Child Support Services. Designates the Department of Child Support Services as the single State agency to administer the State's Title IV-D State plan for securing child and spouse support and determining paternity; transfers those functions from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Department of Public Aid) to the Department of Child Support Services. Provides for the confidentiality of records to facilitate and enhance the child and spouse support enforcement program, and makes a violation of the confidentiality provisions a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that the Department of Child Support Services is the successor agency to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for purposes of child and spouse support enforcement. Provides for the transfer of functions, employees, and property from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the Department of Child Support Services. Amends the Departments of State Government Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to add the Department of Child Support Services as a department of State government and the Director of Child Support Services as the head of the Department. Amends various Acts to change references from the Department of Public Aid to the Department of Child Support Services in connection with child and spouse support enforcement and to add references to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services in appropriate contexts. Effective immediately.