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| 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008SB2879
  Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Kwame Raoul  SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 
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|  |  |     Amends the Children and Family Services Act.  Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services must establish and implement a program to monitor the minor children of incarcerated parents.  Sets forth the objectives of the program.
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|  |  | SB2879 |  | LRB095 19230 HLH 45488 b |  | 
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| 1 |  |     AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 |  |     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 |  | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 |  |     Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended   | 
| 5 |  | by adding Section 41 as follows:
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| 6 |  |     (20 ILCS 505/41  new) | 
| 7 |  |     Sec. 41. Children of incarcerated parents.  The Department  | 
| 8 |  | must, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections,  | 
| 9 |  | establish and implement a program to monitor the minor children  | 
| 10 |  | of incarcerated parents.  The program must enable the Department  | 
| 11 |  | to (i) obtain information regarding the location of the child  | 
| 12 |  | and the identity of the child's caretaker and (ii) provide  | 
| 13 |  | information to the child and the child's caretaker regarding  | 
| 14 |  | any State services that may be available to them.
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