Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 358

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 31-19-26.5-14.

Synopsis: Funds for adoption subsidies. Requires the department of child services (department) to use certain funds that become available as a result of a child with special needs becoming eligible to receive federal adoption assistance under the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 to make adoption subsidy payments for the benefit of a child with special needs under the state adoption subsidy program. Provides that the department is not required to use the funds to make adoption subsidy payments for the benefit of a child with special needs if there is no child with special needs eligible for an adoption subsidy under the state adoption subsidy program.

Effective: July 1, 2011.





Broden




    January 11, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Appropriations.







Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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SENATE BILL No. 358



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 31-19-26.5-14; (11)IN0358.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 31-19-26.5-14 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 14. (a) Except as otherwise provided under federal law and subsection (b), the department shall use any funds:
        (1) that have been appropriated, allocated, contributed, or paid to the adoption assistance account for the purposes of making adoption subsidy payments under this chapter for the benefit of a child with special needs; and
        (2) that become available for use by the department as a result
of the child with special needs becoming eligible to receive federal adoption assistance under the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-351);
to make adoption subsidy payments under this chapter for the benefit of a child with special needs.
    (b) The department is not required to use the funds described in

subsection (a) to make adoption subsidy payments under this chapter for the benefit of a child with special needs if there is no child with special needs eligible for an adoption subsidy under this chapter.
    (c) This section expires January 1, 2020.