ND HB1120

Removes detailed expense provisions from adoption petitions, including requirements to list professional services, legal fees, medical expenses, transportation costs, and birth mother living expenses in court filings

Allows the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct adoption investigations when a child-placing agency has a conflict of interest

Establishes detailed compensation rules for child-placing agencies, requiring financial agreements and itemized receipts for adoption services, with fees prohibited from being contingent on placement or consent

Adds "making a false or misleading report to the department" as grounds for license revocation, replacing prior language about criminal offense convictions

Authorizes the department to provide adoption services when a conflict of interest exists with a child-placing agency and no other agency can provide the service; repeals sections on out-of-state child-placing agencies and license revocation procedures