Utah Code § 80-2-803

Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 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 78B-24-303;
(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 78B-24-303.

Utah Code § 80-2-803

Amended by Chapter 330, 2023 General Session ,§ 131, eff. 5/3/2023.
Added by Chapter 334, 2022 General Session ,§ 67, eff. 9/1/2022.