Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
453.600. Fund created, use of moneys. — 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Foster Care and Adoptive Parents Recruitment and Retention Fund" which shall consist of all gifts, donations, transfers, and moneys appropriated by the general assembly, and bequests to the fund. The fund shall maintain no more than the total of the last two years of funding or a minimum of three hundred thousand dollars, whichever is greater. The fund shall be administered by the Missouri state foster care and adoption board created in section 210.617.
2. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund and may approve disbursements from the fund in accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.
3. Upon appropriation, moneys in the fund shall be used to grant awards to licensed community-based foster care and adoption recruitment programs. The board shall establish guidelines for disbursement of the fund to certain programs. Such programs shall include, but not be limited to, recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive families for children who:
(1) Have been in out-of-home placement for fifteen months or more;
(2) Are more than twelve years of age; or
(3) Are in sibling groups.
Moneys in the fund shall not be subject to appropriation for purposes other than those of evidence-based foster care and adoption programs as designated by the board.
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(L. 2011 H.B. 431 merged with H.B. 604, A.L. 2018 S.B. 843)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Domestic Relations
Chapter 453 - Adoption and Foster Care
Section 453.011 - Expediting termination of parental rights and contested adoption cases.
Section 453.014 - Who may place minor for adoption — rules and regulations, authority.
Section 453.015 - Definitions.
Section 453.025 - Appointment of guardian ad litem, when — fee — duties of guardian ad litem.
Section 453.040 - Consent of parents not required, when.
Section 453.050 - Waiving of necessity of consent, when permitted — how executed.
Section 453.061 - Conception of a child, man deemed to be on notice, when.
Section 453.065 - Definitions.
Section 453.072 - Qualified relatives to receive subsidies, when — definitions.
Section 453.073 - Subsidy to adopted child — determination of — how paid — written agreement.
Section 453.074 - Duties of children's division in administration of subsidy.
Section 453.077 - Postplacement assessments required, when — rulemaking authority.
Section 453.090 - Consequences of adoption — child defined.
Section 453.100 - Clerk to certify decree for vital statistics record — contents.
Section 453.101 - Guardian appointed when adoption not granted — powers and duties to be specified.
Section 453.150 - Effect of adoptions made previous to July 1, 1917.
Section 453.153 - One church-one child program to find adoptive placements for certain children.
Section 453.170 - Adoption under laws of other states or countries, requirements, effect.
Section 453.315 - Order of protection, purpose of.