T39CH75
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39-7501
TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 75 ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 39-7501. Interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance. The interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Idaho as a party, and is in full force and effect between the state and other states joining the agreement in accordance with its terms. INTERSTATE COMPACT ON ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ARTICLE I. FINDINGS The states which are parties to this Compact find that: (a) In order to obtain adoptive families for children with special needs, states must assure prospective adoptive parents of substantial assistance (usually on a continuing basis) in meeting the high costs of supporting and providing for the special needs and the services required by such children. (b) The states have a fundamental interest in promoting adoption for children with special needs because the care, emotional stability, and general support and encouragement required by such children can be best, and often only, obtained in family homes with a normal parent-child relationship. (c) The states obtain fiscal advantages from providing adoption assistance because the alternative is for the states to bear the higher cost of meeting all the needs of children while in foster care. (d) The necessary assurances of adoption assistance for children with special needs, in those instances where children and adoptive parents live in states other than the one undertaking to provide the assistance, include the establishment and maintenance of suitable substantive guarantees and workable procedures for interstate cooperation and payments to assist with the necessary costs of child maintenance, the procurement of services, and the provision of medical assistance. ARTICLE II. PURPOSES The purposes of this Compact are to: (a) Strengthen protections for the interests of children with special needs on behalf of whom adoption assistance is committed to be paid, when such children are in or move to states other than the one committed to provide adoption assistance. (b) Provide substantive assurances and operating procedures which will promote the delivery of medical and other services to children on an interstate basis through programs of adoption assistance established by the laws of the states which are parties to this Compact. ARTICLE III. DEFINITIONS As used in this Compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: (a) Child with special needs means a minor who has not yet attained the age at which the state normally discontinues children’s services, or a child who has not yet reached the age of 21 where the state determines that the child’s mental or physical handicaps warrant the continuation of assistance beyond the age of majority, for whom the state has determined the following: 1. That the child cannot or should not be returned to the home of his or her parents; 2. That there exists with respect to the child a specific f
39-7502
TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 75 ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 39-7502. Compact administrator. Pursuant to said compact, the governor is hereby authorized and empowered to designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall develop guidelines and procedures to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. Said compact administrator shall serve subject to the pleasure of the governor. The compact administrator is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or of any supplementary agreement or agreements entered into by this state thereunder. History: [39-7502, added 1994, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 146.]
39-7503
TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 75 ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 39-7503. Supplementary agreements and financial arrangements. The compact administrator is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to the compact. In the event that such supplementary agreement shall require or contemplate the use of any institution or facility of this state or require or contemplate the provision of any service of this state, said supplementary agreement shall have no force or effect until approved by the head of the department or agency under whose jurisdiction said institution or facility is operated or whose department or agency will be charged with the rendering of such service. The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the board of examiners, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder. History: [39-7503, added 1994, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 146.]
39-7504
TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 75 ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 39-7504. Financial responsibility of parents of estate. The compact administrator shall take appropriate action pursuant to existing law to effect the recovery from relevant parents of estate, at the option of said administrator, of any and all costs expended by the state, or any of its subdivisions, with respect to Idaho children handled under said compact. History: [39-7504, added 1994, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 146; am. 2012, ch. 257, sec. 11, p. 717.]
39-7505
TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 75 ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 39-7505. Responsibilities of enforcement. The courts, departments, agencies and officers of this state and its subdivisions shall enforce this compact and shall do all things appropriate to the effectuation of its purposes and intent which may be within their respective jurisdiction. History: [39-7505, added 1994, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 147.]