§10A-1-7-116. Notice to placement agencies when a child in custody
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becomes eligible for adoption.
A. When a child in the custody of the Department of Human Services becomes eligible for adoption and the child needs a permanent placement, the Department shall notify and disseminate information about the child to licensed child-placing agencies that have requested in writing to receive such notice in order to locate a possible prospective adoptive parent for the child.
B. Upon completion of an adoption specified in subsection A of this section, the Department may provide reimbursement of expenses incurred by the child-placing agency for recruiting, training and conducting a home study for the adoptive parent. Added by Laws 2017, c. 342, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.