80-2-803. Division promotion of adoption -- Adoption research and informational pamphlet.
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Effective 9/1/2025
80-2-803. Division promotion of adoption -- Adoption research and informational pamphlet.
The division shall:
(1)actively promote the adoption of all children in the division's custody who have a final plan for termination of parental rights under Section 80-3-409 or a primary permanency plan of adoption;
(2)develop plans for the effective use of cross-jurisdictional resources to facilitate timely adoptive or permanent placements for waiting children;
(3)obtain information or conduct research regarding prior adoptive families to determine what families may do to be successful with an adoptive child;
(4)make the information or research described in Subsection
(3)available to potential adoptive parents;
(5)prepare a pamphlet that explains the information that a child-placing agency is required to provide a potential adoptive parent under Section 81-14-303 ;
(6)regularly distribute copies of the pamphlet described in Subsection
(5)to child-placing agencies; and
(7)respond to an inquiry made as a result of the notice provided by a child-placing agency under Section 81-14-303 .
Amended by Chapter 426 , 2025 General Session