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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 600.17, subsection 2, Code 1999, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. "Special services" means any medical, dental, 1 4 therapeutic, educational, respite care, or other similar 1 5 service or appliance required by an adopted child by reason of 1 6 a mental or physical disability. 1 7 Sec. 2. Section 600.17, Code 1999, is amended by adding 1 8 the following new subsection: 1 9 NEW SUBSECTION. 3. Notwithstanding subsection 1, special 1 10 services provided to a foster child shall not be automatically 1 11 terminated based upon the filing of an adoption petition and 1 12 shall not be terminated for a reasonable time following 1 13 issuance of an adoption decree relating to the child. 1 14 However, within a reasonable time period, but in no instance 1 15 less than twenty days following the issuance of the adoption 1 16 decree, the department of human services may require the 1 17 adoptive parent to provide documentation of efforts to obtain 1 18 special services free of cost or under the adoptive parent's 1 19 insurance policy, unless such documentation of previous 1 20 efforts to obtain such special services in the same community 1 21 or within a contiguous area is already on file with the 1 22 department. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This bill provides that special services which are provided 1 25 to a foster child are not to be automatically terminated based 1 26 upon the filing of an adoption petition and for a reasonable 1 27 time following adoption of the child. However, adoptive 1 28 parents may be required by the department of human services to 1 29 document efforts to obtain special services free of cost or 1 30 under an insurance policy within a reasonable time (not less 1 31 than 20 days) of the issuance of the adoption decree unless 1 32 documentation of previous efforts to obtain such special 1 33 services is already on file with the department. The bill 1 34 would prevent the automatic termination of special services at 1 35 the time that a foster child moves into an adoptive situation 2 1 so that it is not necessary for adoptive parents to reapply 2 2 for the special services. 2 3 LSB 1178HH 78 2 4 pf/jw/5.1
Text: HF00182 Text: HF00184 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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