§ 43-117 — Adoptive parents; assistance; medical assessment of child

(1) The Department of Health and Human
Services may make payments as needed,
after the legal completion of an adoption, on behalf
of a child who immediately
preceding the adoption was (a) a ward of the department with special
needs or
(b) the subject of a state-subsidized guardianship. Such payments
to adoptive parents may include maintenance costs, medical and surgical expenses,
and other costs incidental to the care of the child. Payments for maintenance
and medical care shall terminate on or before the child's twentieth birthday.
(2) The Department of Health and Human Services shall pay the treatment
costs for the care of an adopted minor child which are the result of an illness
or condition if within three years after the decree of adoption is entered
the child is diagnosed as having a physical or mental illness or condition
which predates the adoption and the child was adopted through the department,
the department did not inform the adopting parents of such condition prior
to the adoption, and the condition is of such nature as to require medical,
psychological, or psychiatric treatment and is more extensive than ordinary
childhood illness.
(3) The Department of Health and Human Services shall conduct a medical
assessment of the mental and physical needs of any child to be adopted through
the department.

Legislative History

Source: Laws 1971, LB 425, § 1; Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 114; Laws 1997, LB 788, § 1; Laws 2009, LB91, § 1.