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Senate advances adoption‑study bill after compromise to keep background checks
Summary
First-substitute Senate Bill 173 was advanced to third reading after sponsors removed controversial waivers and committed to retaining criminal-background and abuse-registry checks for all adoptions; voice/roll-call recorded as unanimous among present senators.
Senators on Feb. 16 moved the first substitute of Senate Bill 173 (pre- and post-placement adoptive home-study provisions) to the third‑reading calendar after sponsors reached a compromise with adoption‑council stakeholders.
Senator Craig Taylor, sponsor, said he agreed to strike sections that would have allowed waivers of home studies in certain birth‑mother‑selected placements and to retain technical clarifications about who may perform home studies. The substitute…
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