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House advances adoption reforms: HB59 (adoption-process changes) and HB173 (post‑adoption counseling)
Summary
On Feb. 4, 1998 the Utah House substituted and passed reforms to private-adoption procedures (first substitute HB59) and approved first substitute HB173 to fund or contract for post‑adoption counseling for families who adopt from state agencies. Sponsors said the bills clarify procedures and provide supports aimed at reducing adoption dissolutions; vote tallies for HB59 and HB173 were recorded as 70–0 and 71–0 respectively.
The Utah House on Feb. 4 advanced a pair of adoption-related measures. First substitute House Bill 59, which makes multiple technical and procedural changes to private-adoption law, was substituted on the floor and passed by the House. Separately, first substitute House Bill 173 authorizes the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to provide or contract for training and post‑adoptive family-preservation services for adoptive families who adopt children from state agencies; the House also passed that bill.
HB59: Representative Nora Stevens and others led floor discussion of the substitute. Sponsors said the substitute addressed concerns raised in earlier hearings — including changing the periodic update…
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