The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families issued Federal Register Volume 65, Number 16 on January 25, 2000. This issuance transmits the final rule which amends existing regulations by adding new requirements governing the review of a State's conformity with its State plan under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act, and implements the provisions of the Social Security Act amendments, the Multiethnic Placement Act amendments and certain provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act which is implemented in Ohio through Sub. H.B. 484 and Am. Sub. H.B. 176.

As a result of these amendments, the department is revising several existing Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) rules governing Title IV-E foster care maintenance and substitute care. While the department is promulgating permanent rules to implement the provisions of the federal regulations this issuance transmits the rules under the emergency provisions established in Chapter119 of the Ohio Revised Code.