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IN SB0351
Bill
Status
1/8/2015
Primary Sponsor
Lonnie Randolph
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AI Summary
Senate Bill 351 Summary
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Requires the Department of Child Services to enter into written adoption subsidy agreements with all eligible adoptive parents of children with special needs and allocate necessary funds to the adoption assistance account.
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Prohibits the department from terminating adoption subsidy agreements due to insufficient funds in the adoption assistance account.
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Repeals provisions that allowed the department to restrict new adoption subsidy agreements only to children who were wards of the department at the time the adoption petition was filed, or to prioritize funding based on wardship status when insufficient funds were available.
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Establishes that the department must allocate funds from available department resources to the adoption assistance account to meet subsidy payment requirements.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Adoption subsidy payments. Requires the department of child services (department) to: (1) enter into an agreement, with each adoptive parent of a child with special needs who is eligible for an adoption subsidy, to provide an adoption subsidy for the child; and (2) allocate funds to the adoption assistance account necessary to make the adoption subsidy payments. Prohibits the department from terminating an adoption subsidy agreement with adoptive parents due to insufficient funds in the adoption assistance account. Makes conforming changes. Repeals a provision that allows the department to: (1) approve new adoption subsidy agreements only for children who are
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Family & Children Services
1/8/2015