Interstate compacts

  1. Law
  2. USC 42
  3. The Public Health And Welfare
  4. SOCIAL SECURITY
  5. GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES
  6. Federal Payments for Foster Care, Prevention, and Permanency
  7. Interstate compacts

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§673a. Interstate compacts

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take all possible steps to encourage and assist the various States to enter into interstate compacts (which are hereby approved by the Congress) under which the interests of any adopted child with respect to whom an adoption assistance agreement has been entered into by a State under section 673 of this title will be adequately protected, on a reasonable and equitable basis which is approved by the Secretary, if and when the child and his or her adoptive parent (or parents) move to another State.

( Pub. L. 96–272, title I, §101(a)(4)(B), June 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 512 .)

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, and not as part of the Social Security Act which comprises this chapter.

Change of Name

"Secretary of Health and Human Services" was substituted for "Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare" in text, pursuant to Pub. L. 96–88, title V, §509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695 , which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.


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