Bill Text: NC S644 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: DSS Adoption Assistance Agreements Binding
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-27 - Ch. SL 2011-383 [S644 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S644-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-383
SENATE BILL 644
AN ACT TO DIRECT the department of health and human services, division of social services, TO require a redetermination of eligibility for vendor payments ONLY IF the ADOPTION ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT specifiCALLY REQUIRES A REDETERMINATION TO RECEIVE VENDOR PAYMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Except as otherwise prohibited by federal law, the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services, shall not require a redetermination of a child's eligibility for vendor payments under any adoption assistance agreement established prior to July 1, 2011. Nothing in this act shall make vendor assistance an entitlement.
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 1:17 p.m. this 27th day of June, 2011