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FCASMTL 99A (MEPA/IEPA - Archive)
Family, Children and Adult Services Manual Transmittal Letter No. 99A
March 25, 1999
TO: Family, Children and Adult Services Manual Holders
FROM: Jacqueline Romer-Sensky, Director
SUBJECT: Changes to Adoption Rules as a Result of the Multiethnic Placement Act and the Interethnic Placement Act

On January 7, 1999 the department issued Family, Children and Adult Services Manual Transmittal Letter (FCASMTL) No. 99. Rules contained in FCASMTL No. 99 were issued on an emergency basis to comply with the Mutiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) and the Interethnic Placement Act (IEPA). As a result of a federal review of the rules and comments received at the public hearing the following adoption rules were amended:

Rule 5101:2-48-05 entitled "Agency adoption policy and agency recruitment plan".

Rule 5101:2-48-09 entitled "Application process and preservice training".

Rule 5101:2-48-11 entitled "Approval of a family foster home for adoptive placement".

Rule 5101:2-48-12 entitled "Completion of the homestudy report".

Rule 5101:2-48-15 entitled "Provision of information to adoptive family".

Rule 5101:2-48-16 entitled "Adoptive placement procedures".

Rule 5101:2-48-23 entitled "Preservation of adoptive child case record".

Rule 5101:2-48-24 entitled "Agency adoption review procedures".

The sections of the rules which are capitalized reflect new additions or changes to the rules.