2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 7 - Subsidization of Adoption
§ 26-7-104. Administration

(1) Payments in subsidization of adoption may include but are not limited to the maintenance costs, medical and surgical expenses, and other costs incidental to the adoption, care, training, and education of the child. The amount of such payments shall be subject to available appropriations and may not exceed the cost of providing comparable assistance in foster care. Payments in subsidization of adoption may be continued although the adoptive parents leave the state of Colorado with the adopted child.

(2) Qualification for payments in subsidization of adoption shall be determined and approved by the department in accordance with rules and regulations of the board prior to the completion of the legal adoption.

(3) Payments in subsidization of adoption shall terminate when the need for such payments no longer exists. Such payments shall not extend beyond the child's twenty-first birthday.

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 19-5-207.5 (4) (a) (III), C.R.S., any fees ordinarily assessed by the department for adoption investigations and home study reports may be waived if such fee poses a barrier to the adoption.

(5) For an adoptive family who receives an approved Title IV-E adoption assistance subsidy pursuant to the federal "Social Security Act", 42 U.S.C. sec. 673 et seq., or an approved payment in subsidization of adoption pursuant to section 26-7-103, the cost of care, as defined in section 19-1-103 (30), C.R.S., shall not exceed the amount of the adoption assistance payment.