16130-16132
WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE
SECTION 16130-16132
16130. In any county which does not have a county adoption agency
established pursuant to Section 16100, the department may establish
services incident to the relinquishment of children for adoption. The
services shall be provided in such manner as may be deemed advisable
by the department.
16131. It is the intent of the Legislature to conform state
statutes to recently enacted federal legislation, the Adoption and
Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), and to reinvest any
incentive payments received through implementation of the federal act
into the child welfare system in order to provide adoption services.
16131.5. (a) The state shall reinvest adoption incentive payments
received through the implementation of the federal Fostering
Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Public
Law 110-351) into the child welfare system, in order to provide legal
permanency outcomes for older children, including, but not limited
to, adoption, guardianship, and reunification of children whose
reunification services were previously terminated.
(b) The incentive payments received pursuant to subdivision (a),
upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or
another statute, shall be allocated by the State Department of Social
Services to the counties, and the department for a county in which
the department serves as an adoption agency, based on documented
increases in legal permanency outcomes for older children achieved by
each county, as determined by the department, in consultation with
counties, for the purposes specified in this section.
(c) A county, or the department when it acts as the adoption
agency for a county, shall use adoption incentive payment funds to
improve or sustain legal permanency outcomes for older children.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supplant funds
currently being spent on programs to provide legal permanency
outcomes.
16132. It is the intent of the Legislature to conform state
statutes to recently enacted federal legislation, the Fostering
Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Public
Law 110-351) and to expend savings resulting from changes in
eligibility for adoption assistance on services, including, but not
limited to, postadoption assistance, that may be provided under Title
IV-B and IV-E of the federal Social Security Act.