TITLE XVI INTERSTATE COMPACTS AFFECTING CHILDREN CHAPTER 1. INTERSTATE COMPACT ON ADOPTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE Art. 1601. Enactment The Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
Art. 1602. Findings The party states find that: (1) In order to obtain adoptive families for children with special needs, prospective adoptive parents must be assured of substantial assistance, usually on a continuing basis, in meeting the high costs of supporting and providing for the special needs and services required by such children. (2) The […]
Art. 1603. Purposes The purposes of this compact are to: (1) Strengthen protections for the interests of the children with special needs on behalf of whom adoptive assistance is committed to be paid, when such children are in or move to states other than the one committed to make adoption assistance payments. (2) Provide substantive […]
Art. 1604. Definitions As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: (1) "Adoption assistance" means the payment or payments for maintenance of a child, which payment or payments are made or committed to be made pursuant to the adoption assistance program established by the laws of a party state. (2) […]
Art. 1605. Adoption assistance A. Each state shall determine the amounts of adoption assistance and other aid which it will give to children with special needs and their adoptive parents in accordance with its own laws and programs. The adoption assistance and other aid may be made subject to periodic reevaluation of eligibility by the […]
Art. 1606. Medical assistance A. Children for whom a party state is committed in accordance with the terms of an adoption assistance agreement to make adoption assistance payments are eligible for medical assistance during the entire period for which such payments are to be provided. Upon application therefor, the adoptive parents of a child on […]
Art. 1607. Joinder and withdrawal A. This compact shall be open to joinder by any state. It shall enter into force as to a state when its duly constituted and empowered authority has executed it. B. In order that the provisions of this compact may be accessible to and known by the general public and […]
