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Senate amends adoption-benefit language in SB76, clarifying insurer recovery and timing of payments
Summary
Senators approved floor amendments to fourth substitute Senate Bill 76 to make an adoptive-parent benefit payable at placement rather than finalization and to limit circumstances where insurers can recover paid benefits. The bill, as amended, passed and moves to the House.
Senators considered extensive floor amendments to fourth substitute Senate Bill 76 on Feb. 5. The amendments addressed technical corrections and substantive changes to an adoptive-parent insurance benefit: sponsors changed the payout trigger so the adoption benefit is payable when a child is placed with adoptive parents (not when the adoption is finalized) while also specifying limited…
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