FINAL BILL REPORT

                 2SHB 1432

                         C 131 L 97

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Modifying the adoption support reconsideration program.

Sponsors:  By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by  Representatives Cooke, Tokuda, Kastama and Dickerson; by request of Department of Social and Health Services).

House Committee on Children & Family Services

House Committee on Appropriations

Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections

Background:  The Department of Social and Health Services provides post-adoption support through the adoption reconsideration program to individuals who adopt children.  The program provides medical and counseling services for adopted children who lived in foster care and had a physical or mental handicap at the time of their adoption.

Summary:  The adoption reconsideration program is expanded to cover children in pre-adoption placements funded by the Department of Social and Health Services and adopted children who are at high risk of future physical or mental handicap or emotional disturbance as a result of conditions to which they were exposed prior to the adoption. 

Votes on Final Passage:

House  94 0

Senate 44 0

Effective:July 27,  1997