42 USC 5114 - Study and report of unlicensed or unregulated adoption placements

U.S Code last checked for updates: Apr 26, 2024

§ 5114.

Study and report of unlicensed or unregulated adoption placements

(a)

In general

The Secretary shall provide for a study (the results of which shall be reported to the appropriate committees of the Congress not later than eighteen months after June 25, 2003) designed to determine—

(1)

the nature, scope, and effects of the interstate (and, to the extent feasible, intrastate) placement of children in adoptive homes (not including the homes of stepparents or relatives of the child in question) by persons or agencies.1

 So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.

(2)

how interstate placements are being financed across State lines;

(3)

recommendations on best practice models for both interstate and intrastate adoptions; and

(4)

how State policies in defining special needs children differentiate or group similar categories of children.

(b)

Dynamics of successful adoption

(c)

Interjurisdictional adoption

(Pub. L. 95–266, title II, § 204, Apr. 24, 1978, 92 Stat. 210; Pub. L. 108–36, title II, §§ 203, 204, June 25, 2003, 117 Stat. 821.)

cite as: 42 USC 5114