Title 33, Human Services

§ 5905. Placement evaluation [Contingently enacted] (a) Prior to sending, bringing, or causing a child to be sent or brought into a receiving state, the public child placing agency shall provide a written request for assessment to the receiving state. (b) For placements by a priv…

§ 5906. Placement authority [Contingently enacted] (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Compact, no child subject to this Compact shall be placed into a receiving state until approval for such placement is obtained. (b) If the public child placing agency in the receiving stat…

§ 5907. Placing agency responsibility [Contingently enacted] (a) For the interstate placement of a child made by a public child placing agency or state court: (1) The public child placing agency in the sending state shall have financial responsibility for: (A) the ongoing support…

§ 5908. Interstate Commission for the Placement of Children [Contingently enacted] The member states hereby establish, by way of this Compact, a commission known as the “Interstate Commission for the Placement of Children.” The activities of the Interstate Commission are the form…

§ 5909. Powers and duties of the Interstate Commission [Contingently enacted] The Interstate Commission shall have the following powers: (1) To promulgate rules and take all necessary actions to effect the goals, purposes, and obligations as enumerated in this Compact. (2) To pro…

§ 5910. Organization and operation of the Interstate Commission [Contingently enacted] (a) Bylaws. (1) Within 12 months after the first Interstate Commission meeting, the Interstate Commission shall adopt bylaws to govern its conduct as may be necessary or appropriate to carry ou…

§ 5911. Rulemaking functions of the Interstate Commission [Contingently enacted] (a) The Interstate Commission shall promulgate and publish rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of the Compact. (b) Rulemaking shall occur pursuant to the criteria set f…

§ 5912. Oversight; dispute resolution; enforcement [Contingently enacted] (a) Oversight. (1) The Interstate Commission shall oversee the administration and operation of the Compact. (2) The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government in each member state sha…

§ 5913. Financing of the Commission [Contingently enacted] (a) The Interstate Commission shall pay, or provide for the payment of, the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization, and ongoing activities. (b) The Interstate Commission may levy on and collect an annual a…

§ 5914. Member states; effective date and amendment [Contingently enacted] (a) Any state is eligible to become a member state. (b) The Compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the Compact into law by no fewer than 35 states. The effective date shal…

§ 5915. Withdrawal and dissolution [Contingently enacted] (a) Withdrawal. (1) Once effective, the Compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each and every member state, provided that a member state may withdraw from the Compact specifically repealing the statute tha…

§ 5916. Severability and construction [Contingently enacted] (a) The provisions of this Compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Compact shall be enforceable. (b) The provisions of this …

§ 5917. Binding effect of compact and other laws [Contingently enacted] (a) Other laws. Nothing herein prevents the enforcement of any other law of a member state that is not inconsistent with this Compact. (b) Binding effect of the Compact. (1) All lawful actions of the Intersta…

§ 5918. Indian tribes [Contingently enacted] Notwithstanding any other provision in this Compact, the Interstate Commission may promulgate guidelines to permit Indian tribes to utilize the Compact to achieve any or all of the purposes of the Compact as specified in section 5901 o…

§ 5921. Financial responsibility [Contingently enacted] Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of section 5907 of this title. However, i…

§ 5922. Agency [Contingently enacted] This State’s “government child welfare agency or child protection agency,” “public child placing agency,” and “central state compact office” is the Department for Children and Families. (Contingently added 2021, No. 101 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)

§ 5923. Agreements [Contingently enacted] The officers and agencies of this State having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to the Interstate Compact for the Placemen…

§ 5924. Placement of child in another state [Contingently enacted] The officers and agencies of this State having authority to place a child in the custody of the Commissioner for Children and Families may place such a child in another state. However, unless parental rights have …

§ 5925. Executive head [Contingently enacted] The term “executive head” in this State means the Secretary of Human Services. The Secretary of Human Services is hereby authorized to appoint a compact administrator in accordance with the terms of section 5907 of this title. (Contin…