WSR 18-11-075

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF

SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES

(Children's Administration)

[Filed May 16, 2018, 10:47 a.m., effective June 16, 2018]

Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

Purpose: The department is amending WAC 388-27-0090 What information must the department or child placing agency provide to prospective adoptive parents about the child that is being considered for adoption?, in order to clarify the documents needed to comply with RCW 26.33.350 and 26.33.380. These amendments also eliminate the duplication of information in regards to court report documents.

Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-27-0090.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.13.031.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-07-043 on March 13, 2018.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Date Adopted: May 15, 2018.

Katherine I. Vasquez

Rules Coordinator

AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 01-08-047, filed 3/30/01, effective 4/30/01)

WAC 388-27-0090 What information must the department or child placing agency provide to prospective adoptive parents about the child that is being considered for adoption?

(1) The department or the child placing agency must provide a medical report containing all known and available information concerning the mental, physical, and sensory handicaps of an adopted child, or a child placed for adoption, to the adoptive or prospective adoptive parents under the authority of RCW 26.33.020, 26.33.340, 26.33.343 and 26.33.350.

(2) The department or the child placing agency worker must provide the child's medical and family background report, DSHS 13-041(X), to the prospective adoptive parents. This report must include documentation of efforts made to obtain medical and social information on the child and birth parents.

(3) The department must provide a social history report on the child and birth family that includes, at a minimum in accordance with RCW 26.33.380:

(a) Circumstances of the child's birth including all child medical records known and available to the department;

(b) All case notes from the child's file to provide a chronological report of how the child came to be available for adoption;

(d) ((All)) The dependency fact finding court report and the latest court reports pertaining to the dependency and custody of the child at time of pre-adoption disclosure;

(e) The child's education history, including school reports and records known and available to the department; and

(f) The child's psychological and psychiatric reports and recommendations known and available to the department.