The purpose of this hearing is to receive comments on proposed changes to Title 479 Chapter 8 of the Nebraska Administrative Code (NAC)-Adoption Assistance Program. These regulations govern adoption assistance agreements that may be entered into with the Department per state statute or Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. The proposed changes made revisions to the application process, clarified eligibility criteria for all children regardless of funding source, revised eligibility criteria for adoption assistance agreements in a private adoption, removes some special service provisions, amended appeal rights to comply with federal regulations, removed internal direction to staff from the regulations and updated the formatting.
