Senate

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Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs

Assembly Bill 600

Relating to: the placement of a child with a relative for adoption and application of the interstate compact on the placement of children; the time by which a juvenile court must hold a hearing on a petition for adoptive placement of a child with a nonrelative and a petition to terminate parental rights that is filed with a petition for adoptive placement; removal of a child from a foster home, treatment foster home or group home for the purpose of placing the child by an agency for adoption; education about adoption and school age parents programs; who may be adopted; the documentation required in a permanency plan for preadoptive placement of a child in foster care or treatment foster care under a voluntary agreement; payments by an adoptive or proposed adoptive parent for the expenses of a birth parent or child; the release of identifying information by an agency that placed a child for adoption or that was appointed guardian of a child who was adopted; advertising related to adoption; the time by which a petition for a rehearing on the ground of new evidence must be filed in a juvenile court proceeding; and providing a penalty.

Joint Legislative Council.

February 5, 1998 Referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.

February 24, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Representative David Ward, for self

· Senator Rick Grobschmidt, for self

· Bob Anderson, WI Bob Council on Children and Families

Appearances against

· None.

Appearances for Information Only

· None.

Registrations for

· Jennifer Gille, Kenosha

· Beverly Jambois, Salem

· Eugene Gozdzialski, Kenosha

· Ida McDermott, Twin Lakes

· John Grace, WI Association of Family and Children's Agencies

· Liz Buchen, Lutheran Social Services

· Matt Bromley, State Bar of WI

Registrations against

· None.

February 24, 1998 EXECUTIVE SESSION

Present: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.

Absent: (0) None.

Moved by Senator Drzewiecki, seconded by Senator Huelsman, that Assembly Bill 600

be recommended for concurrence.

Ayes: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.

Noes: (0) None.

Absent: (0) None.

CONCURRENCE RECOMMENDED, Ayes 4, Noes 0, Absent 0

BSmith

Committee Clerk