Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                         CHAPTER 16-H.F.No. 127 
           An act relating to nonprofit corporations; adoption 
          services corporations; providing that pledges to make 
          contributions to reimburse the corporation for 
          expenses shall be voidable at the option of the person 
          making the pledge and payment of expenses shall not be 
          a prerequisite to providing adoption services; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 317.65, 
          subdivision 7. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 317.65, 
subdivision 7, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 7.  [EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT.] (1) Any organization, 
association or society licensed by the department of human 
services may receive payment for expenses related to adoption 
services in an amount that fairly reflects the agency's 
reasonable and necessary expenses of adoptive counseling, 
whether or not legal adoption is completed; provision of 
services to children prior to adoptive placement; and the 
supervision of children in the home until legal adoption is 
completed.  Only that portion of the expenses may be requested 
which the person seeking to adopt is financially able to meet.  
No person shall be barred from receiving a child for adoption 
because of inability to pay any part of the expenses referred to 
in this subdivision.  In addition to any other reports as may be 
required, each licensed agency, shall file annually with the 
commissioner of human services a full accounting of all expense 
reimbursement received pursuant to this subdivision, together 
with the record of the services given for which the 
reimbursement was made.  If the person returns the child to the 
corporation, the person shall not receive compensation for the 
care, clothing, or medical attendance of the child. 
    This provision shall not preclude voluntary contributions 
by any individual or organization at any time.  A pledge by an 
adoption applicant to make a voluntary contribution is voidable 
at the option of the person pledging. 
    (2) No organization, association or society shall be 
eligible to receive an expense reimbursement from a person who 
takes a child into the person's home or who adopts a child in 
any amount whatsoever during the first twelve months that the 
organization, association or society is licensed by the 
department of human services. 
    Approved April 7, 1987