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2013 SESSION

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HB 2271 Post-adoption services; DSS shall utilize all federal bonus payments to support.

Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Requires the Department of Social Services to utilize all federal adoption bonus payments received in a fiscal year to support post-adoption services.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Expands the population of children with special needs who are eligible for adoption assistance to include a child who has significant emotional ties with his foster parents with whom he has lived for at least 12 months, when the child's foster parents wish to adopt the child and state-funded maintenance payments are necessary to facilitate the adoption. The bill also requires the Department of Social Services to develop a competitive bidding process whereby providers of post-adoption services may compete for federal adoption bonus funds in years in which the total amount of federal adoption bonus funds received by the state exceeds $100,000.