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House Journal: Page 1789: Thursday, April 20, 1995

Salton of Palo Alto offered the following amendment H-3229 filed
by the committee on human resources and moved its adoption:
H-3229
 1     Amend Senate File 150, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, line 10, by inserting after the word
 4   "child" the following:  "or constituted imminent
 5   danger to the child".
 6     2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 33 the
 7   following:
 8     "Sec. ___.  Section 232.119, subsection 5, Code
 9   1995, is amended to read as follows:
10     5.  A request to defer registering the child on the
11   exchange shall be submitted in writing and shall be
12   granted if any of the following conditions exist:
13     a.  The child is in an adoptive placement.
14     b.  The child's foster parents or another person
15   with a significant relationship is being considered as
16   the adoptive family.
17     c.  The child needs A diagnostic study or testing
18   is necessary to clarify the child's problem
needs and
19   to provide an adequate description of the problem
20   child's needs.
21     d.  The At the time of the request, the child is
22   currently hospitalized and receiving medical care,
23   mental health treatment, or other treatment and the
24   child's care or treatment provider has determined that
25   does not permit adoptive placement meeting
prospective
26   adoptive parents is not in the child's best interest.
27     e.  The child is fourteen years of age or older and
28   will not consent to an adoption plan and the
29   consequences of not being adopted have been explained
30   to the child.
31     Upon receipt of a valid written request for
32   deferral pursuant to paragraphs "a" through "e", the
33   exchange shall grant the deferral, except that a
34   deferral based on paragraph "b" or "c" shall be
35   granted for no more than a one-time, ninety-day period
36   unless the termination of parental rights order is
37   appealed.  However, if the foster parents or another
38   person with a significant relationship continues to be
39   considered the child's prospective adoptive family,
40   additional extensions of the deferral may be granted
41   until ninety days after the date of the final decision
42   regarding the appeal.
43     6.  The following requirements apply to a request
44   to defer registering a child on the adoption exchange
45   under subsection 5:
46     a.  For a deferral granted by the exchange pursuant
47   to subsection 5, paragraph "a", "b", or "e", the
48   child's guardian shall address the child's deferral
49   status in the report filed with the court and the
50   court shall review the deferral status in the six-

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