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House Amendment 3229

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PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 150, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, line 10, by inserting after the word
  1  4 "child" the following:  "or constituted imminent
  1  5 danger to the child".
  1  6    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 33 the
  1  7 following:
  1  8    "Sec.    .  Section 232.119, subsection 5, Code
  1  9 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1 10    5.  A request to defer registering the child on the
  1 11 exchange shall be submitted in writing and shall be
  1 12 granted if any of the following conditions exist:
  1 13    a.  The child is in an adoptive placement.
  1 14    b.  The child's foster parents or another person
  1 15 with a significant relationship is being considered as
  1 16 the adoptive family.
  1 17    c.  The child needs A diagnostic study or testing
  1 18 is necessary to clarify the child's problem needs and
  1 19 to provide an adequate description of the problem
  1 20 child's needs.
  1 21    d.  The At the time of the request, the child is
  1 22 currently hospitalized and receiving medical care,
  1 23 mental health treatment, or other treatment and the
  1 24 child's care or treatment provider has determined that
  1 25 does not permit adoptive placement meeting prospective
  1 26 adoptive parents is not in the child's best interest.
  1 27    e.  The child is fourteen years of age or older and
  1 28 will not consent to an adoption plan and the
  1 29 consequences of not being adopted have been explained
  1 30 to the child.
  1 31    Upon receipt of a valid written request for
  1 32 deferral pursuant to paragraphs "a" through "e", the
  1 33 exchange shall grant the deferral, except that a
  1 34 deferral based on paragraph "b" or "c" shall be
  1 35 granted for no more than a one-time, ninety-day period
  1 36 unless the termination of parental rights order is
  1 37 appealed.  However, if the foster parents or another
  1 38 person with a significant relationship continues to be
  1 39 considered the child's prospective adoptive family,
  1 40 additional extensions of the deferral may be granted
  1 41 until ninety days after the date of the final decision
  1 42 regarding the appeal.
  1 43    6.  The following requirements apply to a request
  1 44 to defer registering a child on the adoption exchange
  1 45 under subsection 5:
  1 46    a.  For a deferral granted by the exchange pursuant
  1 47 to subsection 5, paragraph "a", "b", or "e", the
  1 48 child's guardian shall address the child's deferral
  1 49 status in the report filed with the court and the
  1 50 court shall review the deferral status in the six-
  2  1 month review hearings held pursuant to section
  2  2 232.117, subsection 6.
  2  3    b.  In addition to the requirements of paragraph
  2  4 "a", a deferral granted by the exchange pursuant to
  2  5 subsection 5, paragraph "b", shall be limited to not
  2  6 more than a one-time, ninety-day period unless the
  2  7 termination of parental rights order is appealed or
  2  8 the child is placed in a hospital or other
  2  9 institutional placement.  However, if the foster
  2 10 parents or another person with a significant
  2 11 relationship continues to be considered the child's
  2 12 prospective adoptive family, additional extensions of
  2 13 the deferral request under subsection 5, paragraph
  2 14 "b", may be granted until sixty days after the date of
  2 15 the final decision regarding the appeal or until the
  2 16 date the child is discharged from a hospital or other
  2 17 institutional placement.
  2 18    c.  A deferral granted by the exchange pursuant to
  2 19 subsection 5, paragraph "c", shall be limited to not
  2 20 more than a one-time, ninety-day period.
  2 21    d.  A deferral granted by the exchange pursuant to
  2 22 subsection 5, paragraph "d", shall be limited to not
  2 23 more than a one-time, one hundred-twenty-day period."
  2 24    #3.  Page 2, by striking lines 19 through 31.
  2 25    #4.  Title page, line 2, by striking the word
  2 26 "cases" and inserting the following:  "cases, the
  2 27 department of human services' adoption information
  2 28 exchange,".
  2 29    #5.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 30 
  2 31 
  2 32                              
  2 33 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
  2 34 DAGGETT of Union, Chairperson
  2 35 SF 150.203 76
  2 36 jp/jj
     

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