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SB 2484

Custody; create rebuttable presumption of joint custody with equal parenting time.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Rod Hickman

Establish a default child-support method for equally shared custody: compute each parent's support, pay the difference to the lower earner, with possible judicial deviation.

Died On Calendar
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Bill Summary · SB 2484

Summary — SB 2484 (104th General Assembly, 2025–2026)

Status: Died on Calendar (bill not enacted)

Primary sponsor: Sen. Michael W. Halpin
Introduced: February 7, 2025

This bill file contains two distinct substantive components as introduced and as later amended: (1) a procurement / sustainability proposal placed in the Department of Transportation Law (20 ILCS 2705/2705-630 new), and (2) a committee amendment adding a child-support calculation rule for joint custody with equally shared parenting time. A committee amendment indicated the title would be conformed to the custody matter. The bill ultimately died on the legislative calendar.

Key provisions (as introduced — procurement / sustainability)

  • Adds Section 2705-630 to the Department of Transportation Law (20 ILCS 2705/2705-630 new).
  • Requires the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), in consultation and collaboration with the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) and the Capital Development Board (CDB), to develop one or more standards for State purchases of appliances, concrete, asphalt, steel, and other building materials — subject to appropriation or grant funding for that purpose.
  • Directs that, when developing these standards and when evaluating bids for State-funded infrastructure projects, IDOT shall consider:
    • Establishing a maximum acceptable Global Warming Potential (GWP) standard; and
    • Ways to promote and facilitate use of life cycle assessments (LCAs) and environmental product declarations (EPDs).
  • Purpose stated: to reduce the carbon intensity of State-funded infrastructure and increase infrastructure sustainability.

Key provisions (as amended — child support calculation for equally shared parenting time)

  • Amendment (Adopted, proposed by Sen. Hickman) inserts a new paragraph (b) that prescribes a default method to calculate child support when parents have joint custody with equally shared parenting time.
  • Calculation steps:
    1. Calculate a child-support award under the statute/guidelines (referencing Section 43-19-101) for each parent as if that parent were the obligor.
    2. Subtract the smaller award from the larger award to compute the difference.
    3. Order the parent with the higher adjusted gross income to pay that difference to the parent with the lower adjusted gross income.
  • The court may deviate from this method if the court determines a deviation is in the best interest of the child.

Who would be affected

  • Procurement/sustainability provisions: IDOT, CMS, CDB, state agencies that procure construction materials, contractors and suppliers bidding on state-funded infrastructure projects, and indirectly communities and environmental outcomes through potentially lower-GWP procurement.
  • Custody/child-support provisions: parents and children involved in family law cases with joint custody and equal parenting time; family courts and attorneys; state child-support administrative systems (implementation of calculation method).

Procedural/timeline notes

  • Introduced Feb 7, 2025 by Sen. Halpin.
  • Referred to committees including Judiciary A and subsequently to Procurement/Business & Commerce per the record.
  • Committee substitute and amendment actions occurred in February 2025 (committee substitute adopted Feb 12; amendment adopted).
  • Legislative record shows the bill “Died On Calendar” (March 12, 2025). The amendment text indicated the title should be conformed to the custody subject, but the bill did not become law.

Implications

  • If enacted, the procurement language would give the State an authorization and directive to set material standards that incorporate GWP limits and lifecycle/EPD considerations — potentially changing specifications and competitiveness in state construction procurement.
  • The custody amendment would have standardized a mathematical approach to child-support transfers in equal-parenting-time scenarios, shifting support to a net-payment model based on differential obligations and adjusted gross income, while preserving judicial discretion to deviate for the child’s best interest.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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