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Judiciary committee advances adoption-reform bill to tighten agency oversight and add protections for birth parents
Summary
The interim judiciary committee voted to advance draft adoption amendments that raise reporting standards, create a child-placing-agency consortium, increase certain payment caps and add a 72-hour revocation window for consent; the measure passed as a committee bill with two no votes.
Representative Katy Hall presented a package of adoption amendments the committee described as the result of extensive stakeholder collaboration and multiple interim meetings. "There has been a coming together and a lot of good compromises," Hall said while outlining reforms aimed at improving transparency, agency oversight and protections for birth and adoptive parents.
Hall told the committee the bill would require fuller disclosure in advertising, prohibit financial incentives in advertising, require agencies to report complaints and violations, and create a child-placing-agency consortium run by the Department of Human Services for oversight. "One of the biggest things that…
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