Sec. 4. If the department determines that sufficient funds are not or will not be available in the adoption assistance account established under this chapter to make adoption subsidy payments to adoptive parents of all children who may be eligible for a subsidy payable under this chapter, the department may, in accordance with procedures established by rules:
(1) approve new adoption subsidy agreements only for the benefit of children for whom the department has wardship responsibility at the time the adoption petition is filed; or
(2) give priority to funding new adoption subsidy agreements for children for whom the department has had wardship responsibility.
As added by P.L.146-2008, SEC.562.