e-Newsletters

24 August 2004
From: Executive Director, Malcolm Rich
To: Members/Friends of the Chicago Council of Lawyers
& the Chicago Appleseed Fund For Justice

In this e-Newsletter:

Follow-up: The Governor has signed into law legislation regulating the sometimes shameful business practices of private child support collection agencies

Governor Signs Legislation Regulating the Sometimes Shameful Business Practices of Private Child Support Collection Agencies

In our August 5, 2004 e-Newsletter, we asked each of you to contact Governor Blagojevich and ask him to sign HB 4393. Many of you did and Chicago Appleseed and the Council thank those of you who made the effort. The Governor did sign HB 4393 which amends the Illinois Collection Agency Act under which private child support collection agencies are licensed in Illinois.

Legislative sponsors were Senators Ira I. Silverstein, Dave Sullivan, Jacqueline Y. Collins, Donne E. Trotter, Susan Garret, Jeffrey M. Schoenberg, and Kimberly A. Lightford and Representatives Patricia R. Bellock, Eileen Lyons, Julie Hamos, Barbara Flynn Currie, and Joseph M Lyons.The legislation addresses serious problems Illinois custodial parents face after contracting with private child support collection agencies. On August 10, 2004, HB 4393 became Public Act 93-0896. You can get more information about the legislation by going to the website of the Illinois General Assembly, www.legis.state.il.us.