Digest: The Act allows certain children to receive direct support, to keep in touch with their siblings and to know their life history. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).
Modifies provisions regarding subsidies for adoptive parents and guardians. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to redirect subsidy payments for the benefit of a child who no longer receives direct support from an adoptive parent or guardian.
Creates a rebuttable presumption that continuing contact with biological siblings is in the best interest of children of parents whose parental rights have been terminated. Directs the court to make a determination regarding a child's continuing contact with the child's biological siblings when parental rights are terminated.
Directs the department to disclose records regarding a child's life history, at the request of the child, if the child's parent's parental rights to the child were surrendered or terminated.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 418.330, 418.335, 418.205, 419B.521, 419B.527, 109.268, 409.225