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OR SB730
Bill
Status
6/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Sara Gelser Blouin
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AI Summary
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Authorizes the Department of Human Services to redirect adoption/guardianship subsidy payments directly to a child aged 18-21 or to a new custodian when the original adoptive parent or guardian is no longer providing support for the child's food, clothing, education, medical, and shelter needs
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Creates a rebuttable presumption that continuing contact with biological siblings is in the best interest of children whose parents' parental rights have been terminated, which can only be overcome by written court findings that contact would threaten the child's health, safety, or welfare
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Requires adoptive parents to enter into binding court-approved agreements ensuring continuing contact between adopted children and their biological siblings, unless the court has determined such contact is not in the child's best interest
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Mandates the Department of Human Services to disclose life history records to individuals whose birth parents' rights were surrendered or terminated, including biological family information, foster care placement names, medical records, school records, and abuse investigation reports
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Sibling contact and adoption agreement provisions become operative July 1, 2026; records disclosure provisions apply retroactively to all individuals who received child welfare services before, on, or after the bill's effective date
Legislative Description
Relating to rights of recipients of child welfare services.
Last Action
In committee upon adjournment.
6/27/2025