Revision: June 18, 2010, midnight
CHAPTER 160
SB 384 – FINAL VERSION
2010 SESSION
05/04
SENATE BILL 384
AN ACT authorizing the department of health and human services to provide private adoption agencies access to founded reports of abuse and neglect maintained by the department.
SPONSORS: Sen. Sgambati, Dist 4; Sen. Reynolds, Dist 2; Sen. Gilmour, Dist 12; Rep. Arsenault, Belk 4; Rep. Julie Brown, Straf 1; Rep. Donovan, Sull 4; Rep. B. Richardson, Ches 5
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
This bill permits the department of health and human services to provide private adoption agencies with access to founded reports of abuse and neglect in the same manner that the department provides such information to out of state child welfare agencies.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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05/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT authorizing the department of health and human services to provide private adoption agencies access to founded reports of abuse and neglect maintained by the department.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
160:1 Central Registry; Access by Private Adoption Agencies. Amend RSA 169-C:35, VI to read as follows:
VI. Upon receipt of a written request from another state’s child welfare agency or from a private adoption agency that is licensed or certified in another state to check the central registry established under this section for information on a prospective foster or adoptive parent or any other adult living in the home of such a prospective foster or adoptive parent, the department shall conduct the requested check and shall provide the requesting state or private adoption agency with the results of the check along with such additional information from the department’s case records as the department deems necessary for the requesting state or private adoption agency to be able to evaluate the results.
160:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: June 17, 2010
Effective Date: June 17, 2010