1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to adoption; providing for data collection
1.3 	and best practice guidelines for conducting
1.4 	postadoption services; requiring a report; proposing
1.5 	coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 259.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [259.88] DATA AND BEST PRACTICES.
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Required data for postadoption search
1.9 	services. (a) The commissioner of human services must collect
1.10 	data from all adoption agencies for six months in order to
1.11 	establish benchmarks to evaluate postadoption search services.
1.12 	The data must include:
1.13 	(1) the percentage of requests resulting in successful
1.14 	location of the other party;
1.15 	(2) the percentage of requests resulting in successful
1.16 	completion of the commissioner's designated form for family
1.17 	medical and social history;
1.18 	(3) the time from request for search to completion of
1.19 	search; and 
1.20 	(4) the number and type of efforts used to complete the
1.21 	search.
1.22 	(b) Agencies must provide the number of search requests
1.23 	received during the six-month period prior to the effective date
1.24 	of this section to the commissioner of human services.
1.25 	(c) The data must be used to establish reasonable efforts
2.1 	in developing the best practices under subdivision 2.
2.2 		Subd. 2.Best practices. The commissioner of human
2.3 	services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, must
2.4 	develop best practice guidelines for conducting postadoption
2.5 	services.

2.6 	Sec. 2. REPORT.
 2.7 	The commissioner must report to the legislature by February
2.8 	1, 2006.  The report must include an assessment of the data
2.9 	gathered under section 1, subdivision 1, and the best practices
2.10 	guidelines developed under section 1, subdivision 2.

2.11 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.12 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.