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LA Chil Code art. 1601 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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.
LA Chil Code art. 1602 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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 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 to surmount their physical, mental, or emotional conditions can be best, and often only, obtained in family homes with a normal parent-child relationship. (3) The states obtain advantages from providing adoption assistance because the customary alternative is for the state to defray the entire cost of meeting all the needs of such children. (4) The special needs involved are for the emotional, physical maintenance of the child, and medical support and services. (5) The necessary assurances of adoption assistance for children with special needs, in those instances where children and adoptive parents are in states other than the one undertaking to provide the assistance, is to establish and maintain suitable substantive guarantees and workable procedures for interstate payments to assist with the necessary child maintenance, procurement of services, and medical assistance. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
LA Chil Code art. 1603 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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 assurances and procedures which will promote the delivery of medical and other services on an interstate basis to children through programs of adoption assistance established by the laws of the party states. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
LA Chil Code art. 1604 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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) "Adoption assistance state" means the state that is signatory to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case. (3) "Child with special needs" means a minor who has not yet attained the age at which the state normally discontinues children's services or twenty-one, where the state determines that the child's mental or physical handicaps warrant the continuation of assistance, for whom the state has determined the following: (a) That the child cannot or should not be returned to the home of his parents. (b) That there exists with respect to the child a specific factor or condition, such as his ethnic background, age, or membership in a minority or sibling group, or the presence of factors such as medical condition or physical, mental, or emotional handicaps, because of which it is reasonable to conclude that such child cannot be placed with adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance. (c) That, except where it would be against the best interests of the child because of such factors as the existence of significant emotional ties with prospective adoptive parents while in the care of such parents as a foster child, a reasonable but unsuccessful effort has been made to place the child with appropriate adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance payments. (4) "Parents" means either the singular or plural of the word "parent". (5) "Residence state" means the state of which the child is a resident by virtue of the residence of the adoptive parents. (6) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of the United States. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
LA Chil Code art. 1606 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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 whose behalf a party state's duly constituted authorities have entered into an adoption assistance agreement shall receive a medical assistance identification made out in the child's name. The identification shall be issued by the medical assistance program of the residence state and shall entitle the child to the same benefits, pursuant to the same procedures, as any other child who is a resident of the state and covered by medical assistance, whether or not the adoptive parents are eligible for medical assistance. B. The identification shall bear no indication that an adoption assistance agreement with another state is the basis for issuance. However, if the identification is issued on account of an outstanding adoption assistance agreement to which another state is a signatory, the records of the issuing state and the adoption assistance state shall show the fact and shall contain a copy of the adoption assistance agreement and any amendment or replacement therefor, and all other pertinent information. The adoption assistance and medical assistance programs of the adoption assistance state shall be notified of the identification issuance. C. A state which has issued a medical assistance identification pursuant to this compact, which identification is valid and currently in force, shall accept, process, and pay medical assistance claims thereon as on any other medical assistance eligibilities of residents. D. An adoption assistance state which provides medical services or benefits to children covered by its adoption assistance agreements, which services or benefits are not provided for those children under the medical assistance program of the residence state, may enter into cooperative arrangements with the residence state to facilitate the delivery and administration of such services and benefits. However, any such arrangements shall not be inconsistent with this compact nor shall they relieve the residence state of any obligation to provide medical assistance in accordance with its laws and this compact. E. A child whose residence is changed from one party state to another party state shall be eligible for medical assistance under the medical assistance program of the new state of residence. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
LA Chil Code art. 1607 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|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 so that its status as law in each of the party states may be fully implemented, the full text of the compact, together with a notice of its execution shall be caused to be published by the authority which has executed it in each party state. Copies of the compact shall be made available upon request made of the executing authority in any state. C. Withdrawal from this compact shall be by written notice sent by the authority which executed it to the appropriate officials of all other party states, but no such notice shall take effect until one year after it is given in accordance with the requirements of this Paragraph. D. All adoption assistance agreements outstanding and to which a party state is signatory at the time when its withdrawal from this compact takes effect shall continue to have the effects given to them pursuant to this compact, until they expire or are terminated in accordance with their provisions. Until such expiration or termination, all beneficiaries of the agreements involved shall continue to have all rights and obligations conferred or imposed by this compact, and the withdrawing state shall continue to administer the compact to the extent necessary to accord and implement fully the rights and protections preserved hereby. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
LA Chil Code art. 1608 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1608. Interstate compact on the placement of children, adoption; enactment; purpose and policy

NOTE: Art. 1608 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein as set out herein in Articles 1608 through 1617. B. It is the purpose and policy of the party states to cooperate with each other in the interstate placement of children to the end that: (1) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum opportunity to be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (2) The appropriate authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have full opportunity to ascertain the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable requirements for the protection of the child. (3) The proper authorities of the state from which the placement is made may obtain the most complete information on the basis of which to evaluate a projected placement before it is made. (4) Appropriate jurisdictional arrangements for the care of children will be promoted. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1609 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1609. Compact definitions

NOTE: Art. 1609 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. As used in this compact: (1) "Child" means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally subject to parental, guardianship, or similar control. (2) "Placement" means the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or boarding home or in a child-caring agency or institution but does not include any institution caring for the mentally ill, mentally defective, or epileptic, or any institution primarily educational in character, and any hospital or other medical facility. (3) "Receiving state" means the state to which a child is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities or private persons or agencies, and whether for placement with state or local public authorities or for placement with private agencies or persons. (4) "Sending agency" means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency, or other entity which sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1610 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1610. Conditions for placement

NOTE: Art. 1610 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. No sending agency shall send, bring, or cause to be sent or brought into any other party state any child for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption unless the sending agency shall comply with each and every requirement set forth in this Article and with the applicable laws of the receiving state governing the placement of children therein. B. Prior to sending, bringing, or causing any child to be sent or brought into a receiving state for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption, the sending agency shall furnish the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state written notice of the intention to send, bring, or place the child in the receiving state. The notice shall contain: (1) The name, date, and place of birth of the child. (2) The identity and address or addresses of the parents or legal guardian. (3) The name and address of the person, agency, or institution to or with which the sending agency proposes to send, bring, or place the child. (4) A full statement of the reasons for such proposed action and evidence of the authority pursuant to which the placement is proposed to be made. C. Any public officer or agency in a receiving state which is in receipt of a notice pursuant to Paragraph B of this Article may request the sending agency or any other appropriate officer or agency of or in the sending agency's state, and shall be entitled to receive therefrom, such supporting or additional information as it may deem necessary under the circumstances to carry out the purpose and policy of this compact. D. The child shall not be sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought into the receiving state until the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state shall notify the sending agency, in writing, to the effect that the proposed placement does not appear to be contrary to the interests of the child. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1611 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1611. Illegal placement; penalty

NOTE: Art. 1611 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. The sending, bringing, or causing to be sent or brought into any receiving state of a child in violation of the terms of this compact shall constitute a violation of the laws respecting the placement of children of both the state in which the sending agency is located or from which it sends or brings the child and of the receiving state. B. Such violation may be punished or subjected to penalty in either jurisdiction in accordance with its laws. C. In addition to liability for any such punishment or penalty, any such violation shall constitute full and sufficient grounds for the suspension or revocation of any license, permit, or other legal authorization held by the sending agency which empowers or allows it to place or care for children. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1612 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1612. Retention of jurisdiction

NOTE: Art. 1612 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. The sending agency shall retain jurisdiction over the child sufficient to determine all matters in relation to the custody, supervision, care, treatment, and disposition of the child which it would have had if the child had remained in the sending agency's state, until the child is adopted, reaches majority, becomes self-supporting, or is discharged with the concurrence of the appropriate authority in the receiving state. Such jurisdiction shall also include the power to effect or cause the return of the child or its transfer to another location and custody pursuant to law. The sending agency shall continue to have financial responsibility for support and maintenance of the child during the period of the placement. Nothing contained herein shall defeat a claim of jurisdiction by a receiving state sufficient to deal with an act of delinquency or crime committed therein. B. When the sending agency is a public agency, it may enter into an agreement with an authorized public or private agency in the receiving state providing for the performance of one or more services in respect of such case by the latter as agent for the sending agency. C. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent a private charitable agency authorized to place children in the receiving state from performing services or acting as agent in that state for a private charitable agency of the sending state, nor to prevent the agency in the receiving state from discharging financial responsibility for the support and maintenance of a child who has been placed on behalf of the sending agency without relieving the responsibility set forth in Paragraph A of this Article. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1613 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1613. Institutional care of delinquent children

NOTE: Art. 1613 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A child adjudicated delinquent may be placed in an institution in another party jurisdiction pursuant to this compact, but no such placement shall be made unless the child is given a court hearing on notice to the parent or guardian with opportunity to be heard, prior to his being sent to such other party jurisdiction for institutional care, and the court finds both that: (1) Equivalent facilities for the child are not available in the sending agency's jurisdiction. (2) Institutional care in the other jurisdiction is in the best interest of the child and will not produce undue hardship. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1614 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1614. Compact administrator

NOTE: Art. 1614 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. The executive head of each jurisdiction party to this compact shall designate an officer who shall be general coordinator of activities under this compact in his jurisdiction and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party jurisdictions, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1615 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1615. Limitations upon applicability

NOTE: Art. 1615 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. This compact shall not apply to: (1) The sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state by his parent, stepparent, grandparent, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt, or his guardian and leaving the child with any such relative or nonagency guardian in the receiving state. (2) Any placement, sending, or bringing of a child into a receiving state pursuant to any other interstate compact to which both the state from which the child is sent or brought and the receiving state are party, or to any other agreement between said states which has the force of law. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1616 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1616. Enactment and withdrawal

NOTE: Art. 1616 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. This compact shall be open to joinder by any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, with the consent of congress, the government of Canada or any province thereof. It shall become effective with respect to any such jurisdiction when such jurisdiction has enacted the same into law. B. Withdrawal from this compact shall be by the enactment of a statute repealing the same, but shall not take effect until two years after the effective date of such statute and until written notice of the withdrawal has been given by the withdrawing state to the governor of each other party jurisdiction. C. Withdrawal of a party state shall not affect the rights, duties, and obligations under this compact of any sending agency herein with respect to a placement made prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1617 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1617. Construction and severability

NOTE: Art. 1617 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. B. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party thereto, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1618 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1618. Supplementary definitions applicable only to this state

NOTE: Art. 1618 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. As used in Article 1610, when referring to this state, "appropriate public authorities" means the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. B. As used in Article 1612, "appropriate authority in the receiving state" means any licensed child welfare agency in Louisiana. C. As used in Article 1614, "executive head" means the governor of Louisiana. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1619 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1619. Financial responsibility for children

NOTE: Art. 1619 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of this compact shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 1612 in the first instance. However, in the event of partial or complete default of performance thereunder, the provisions of Louisiana's laws fixing the responsibility for the support of children also may be invoked. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
LA Chil Code art. 1620 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Children's Code|Art. 1620. Authority to enter into agreements; approval of state treasurer

NOTE: Art. 1620 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. A. The officers and agencies of this state and its political subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to Paragraph B of Article 1612. B. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on this state or subdivision or agency thereof shall not be binding unless it has the approval in writing of the state treasurer in the case of the state and of the chief local fiscal officer in the case of a subdivision of the state. Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.