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Effective Jul 10, 2023Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 43, Sec. 2. (AB 120) Effective July 10, 2023.
(a) “Full-service adoption agency” means a licensed or authorized entity engaged in the business of providing adoption services, that does all of the following:
- (1) Assumes care, custody, and control of a child through relinquishment of the child to the agency or involuntary termination of parental rights to the child.
- (2) Assesses the birth parents, prospective adoptive parents, or child.
- (3) Places children for adoption.
- (4) Supervises adoptive placements.
- (5) Recruits prospective adoptive parents, locates children for adoption, or acts as an intermediary between the parties to an adoption.
- (b) Private full-service adoption agencies shall be organized and operated on a nonprofit basis. As a condition of licensure to provide intercountry adoption services, a private full-service adoption agency shall be accredited by the Council on Accreditation, or supervised by an accredited primary provider, or acting as an exempted provider, in compliance with Subpart F (commencing with Section 96.29) of Part 96 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations.