2004 House Bill 6010 ↩

House Roll Call 647: Passed

To explicitly establish in the law governing child adoptions that part of its purpose is to support the permanency of a finalized adoption, and establish certain procedural and notice requirements designed to realize this purpose. It would allow a child age 11 or older to participate in his or her adoption hearings, and require that certain hearings be held in the county in which the parental rights of the birth parents were terminated. The bill is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 6008 to 6010 designed to establish procedures in contested adoption cases to ensure that adoption decisions are final and all interested parties, the prospective adoptive parents, have had an opportunity to fully participate.