§ 1 The purpose of this Act is to create a Department of Children and …
§ 1.1 This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Children and Family …
§ 2 In addition to the powers and duties otherwise provided by law, the …
§ 2.1 The Department shall ensure a sufficient number of placement and …
§ 2.2 Annual reports on youth in care waiting for placement
§ 3 To establish such subdivisions of the Department as shall be …
§ 4 To make all rules necessary for the execution of its powers
§ 4a (a) To administer child abuse prevention shelters and service …
§ 4b Youth transitional housing programs
§ 4c Temporary residential shelter services
§ 4d Definition
§ 4e Prohibited restraints for youth in care during transport
§ 4f Transportation providers; compliance requirements
§ 5 Direct child welfare services; Department of Children and Family Services
§ 5a Reimbursable services for which the Department of Children and Family …
§ 5b Child Care and Development Fund; Department of Human Services
§ 5c Direct child welfare service employee license
§ 5d The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board
§ 5e Advocacy Office for Children and Families
§ 5f Reimbursement rates
§ 5.05 Victims of sex trafficking
§ 5.10 Direct child welfare services; Department of Human Services
§ 5.15 Daycare; Department of Human Services
§ 5.20 Child care for former public aid recipients; Department of Human …
§ 5.25 Behavioral health services
§ 5.26 Foster children; exit interviews
§ 5.30 Specialized care
§ 5.35 Residential services; rates
§ 5.40 Multi-dimensional treatment foster care
§ 5.45 Managed care plan services
§ 5.46 Application for Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security …
§ 6 The Department shall not authorize payment under Section 5 or accept …
§ 6.5 Children; methamphetamine; protocol
§ 6a Case plan
§ 6b Case tracking system
§ 6b-1 Maintaining and tracking information on guardians ad litem
§ 6c Parental inquiry
§ 7 Placement of children; considerations
§ 7.1 One Church One Child Advisory Board
§ 7.3 Placement plan
§ 7.3a Normalcy parenting for children in foster care; participation in childhood activities
§ 7.4 Development and preservation of sibling relationships for children in …
§ 7.5 Notice of post-adoption reunion services
§ 7.7 Limit on multiple placements
§ 7.8 Home safety checklist; aftercare services; immunization checks
§ 8 Scholarships and fee waivers; tuition waiver
§ 8a No otherwise qualified child with a disability receiving special …
§ 8b No homeless person eligible to receive benefits or services from the …
§ 8.1 Foster Youth Summer Internship Pilot Program
§ 9 To exercise executive and administrative supervision over all …
§ 9.1 The parents or guardians of the estates of children accepted for care …
§ 9.2 The Department shall have authority to enter into agreements with …
§ 9.3 Declarations by Parents and Guardians
§ 9.4 Investigation and Determination
§ 9.5 Notice of Parental Payments Due
§ 9.6 Parental Payments
§ 9.7 Alternative Actions to Enforce Parental Payments Due
§ 9.8 Court Enforcement
§ 9.8a Child Welfare Litigation Division
§ 9.9 Review under Administrative Review Law
§ 10 To establish and operate in the regions of the State additional …
§ 11 To appoint and remove the superintendents of the institutions …
§ 11.1 Department employees; restrictions
§ 12 (a) To provide supervision, housing accommodations, board or the …
§ 12.1 To cooperate with the State Board of Education and the Department of …
§ 12.2 To cooperate with the Department of Human Services in any programs or …
§ 17 Youth and Community Services Program
§ 17a-2 Local boards and service systems; Department of Human Services. The …
§ 17a-3 Annual community youth service plan; Department of Human Services. …
§ 17a-4 Grants for community-based youth services; Department of Human Services
§ 17a-5 The Department of Human Services shall be successor to the Department …
§ 17a-6 (A) Personnel exercising the rights, powers and duties in the …
§ 17a-7 Units of General Local Government – Agreements for Funds
§ 17a-8 Agreements for Cooperative Action by Units of General Local …
§ 17a-9 Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission
§ 17a-10 The Department of Human Services may administer unified delinquency …
§ 17a-11 Governor’s Youth Services Initiative
§ 17a-13 The Department shall establish a minimum of 3 citizen review panels …
§ 17a-15 Community service programs; Department of Human Services
§ 20 To control the admission and transfer of persons in the programs of …
§ 21 Investigative powers; training
§ 21.1 In any proceeding in which the Department of Children and Family …
§ 21.2 Child welfare training academy
§ 21.2a The Department of Children and Family Services’ Child Protection Training Academy
§ 21.5 Training; advice to subjects of investigation
§ 21.6 Front-line staff members; personal protection spray devices
§ 22 To receive, hold, distribute and use for indicated purposes and the …
§ 22.1 Grants-in-aid for child care services; Department of Human Services
§ 22.2 To provide training programs for the provision of foster care and …
§ 22.3 To provide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing for any child …
§ 22.4 Low-interest loans for child care facilities; Department of Human …
§ 23 To make agreements with any other department, authority or commission …
§ 24 To direct the expenditure of all money which has been or may be …
§ 25 Grants, gifts, or legacies; Putative Father Registry fees
§ 29 To establish, maintain and operate cemeteries in connection with the …
§ 30 To prescribe and require surety bonds from any officer or employee …
§ 31 To keep, for each institution under the jurisdiction of the …
§ 32 To keep, for each institution under the jurisdiction of the …
§ 34 To report annually in writing to the Governor, on or before the first …
§ 34.1 To report to the appropriate local law enforcement agency, the …
§ 34.2 To conduct meetings in each service region between local youth …
§ 34.3 To conduct supervisory reviews of cases handled by caseworkers and …
§ 34.4 To enter into referral agreements, on its own behalf and on behalf of …
§ 34.5 To make such inquiry as may be appropriate, in any intake or …
§ 34.6 To submit to the General Assembly no later than March 1 of each year …
§ 34.7 To ensure that persons knowledgeable in the causes and treatment of …
§ 34.9 The Department may, in conjunction with colleges or universities in …
§ 34.10 Home child care demonstration project; conversion and renovation …
§ 34.11 Lou Jones Grandparent Child Care Program
§ 34.12 Federal family resource and support program grants
§ 35 No officer, agent or employee of the Department of Children and …
§ 35.1 The case and clinical records of patients in Department supervised …
§ 35.2 If a child has been found to be an abused minor under Section 4-8 of …
§ 35.3 Confidentiality of foster parent identifying information
§ 35.5 Inspector General
§ 35.6 State-wide toll-free telephone number
§ 35.7 Error Reduction Implementations Plans; Inspector General
§ 35.8 Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation rules; review
§ 35.9 Visitation privileges; grandparents and great-grandparents
§ 35.10 Documents necessary for adult living
§ 35.11 Rate study
§ 36 Transfer to DCFS (1964)
§ 37 Internal oversight review and unified report
§ 37a Cross-agency prequalification and master service agreements
§ 38 Should any court of competent jurisdiction hold any section, …
§ 39 The provisions for repeal contained in this Act shall not in any way …
§ 39.1 Kinship Navigator Act
§ 39.2 Illinois Children’s Justice Task Force
§ 39.3 Suggestion boxes
§ 40 Sections 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 40, 41 and 42 of “An Act codifying …
§ 41 Department of Children and Family Services to submit quarterly reports to the General Assembly
§ 41.5 Racial disparities reports
§ 42 Foster care survey
§ 43 Intergovernmental agreement; transitioning youth in care
§ 44 Pat McGuire Child Welfare Education Fellowship Pilot Program
§ 45 Title IV-E funds for legal services to foster youth and families

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 20 ILCS 505 - Children and Family Services Act

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • decree: is synonymous with the word "judgment". See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.24
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter" at any time after such day. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.17
  • In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Surviving spouse: means "widow" or "widower" as the case may be. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.32
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Units of local government: has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.28
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.