Checkout our iOS App for a better way to browser and research.
(1) The division may, based upon annual legislative appropriations for adoption assistance and division rules, provide supplemental adoption assistance for a child who has a special need. Supplemental adoption assistance shall be provided only after all other resources for which a child is eligible have been exhausted.
(2)
(a) The department shall, by rule, establish in each region at least one advisory committee to review and make recommendations to the division on individual requests for supplemental adoption assistance. The committee shall be comprised of:
(i) an adoption expert;
(ii) an adoptive parent;
(iii) a division representative;
(iv) a foster parent; and
(v) an adoption caseworker.
(b) The division rule required in Subsection (1) shall include a provision that establishes a threshold amount for requests for supplemental adoption assistance that require review by the committee established in this Subsection (2).