Vermont § 5914 Member states; effective date and amendment [Contingently enacted]

Vermont Statutes

§ 5914 — Member states; effective date and amendment [Contingently enacted]

Vermont § 5914

Title 33Title 33: Human Services

Ch. 59Chapter 059: Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children [Contingently enacted]

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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 33, § 5914 (2026).

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(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 shall be the later of July 1, 2007 or upon enactment of the Compact into law by the 35th state. Thereafter it shall become effective and binding as to any other member state upon enactment of the Compact into law by that state. The executive heads of the state human services administration with ultimate responsibility for the child welfare program of nonmember states or their designees shall be invited to participate in the activities of the Interstate Commission on a nonvoting basis prior to adoption of the Compact by all states.

(c)The Interstate Commission may propose amendments to the Co

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(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 shall be the later of July 1, 2007 or upon enactment of the Compact into law by the 35th state. Thereafter it shall become effective and binding as to any other member state upon enactment of the Compact into law by that state. The executive heads of the state human services administration with ultimate responsibility for the child welfare program of nonmember states or their designees shall be invited to participate in the activities of the Interstate Commission on a nonvoting basis prior to adoption of the Compact by all states.
(c) The Interstate Commission may propose amendments to the Compact for enactment by the member states. No amendment shall become effective and binding on the member states unless and until it is enacted into law by unanimous consent of the member states. (Contingently added 2021, No. 101 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)