2006 Utah Code - 62A-4a-205.5 — Prohibition of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage.

     62A-4a-205.5.   Prohibition of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage.
     With regard to children in the custody of the division who have permanency goals of adoption or for whom a final plan for pursuing termination of parental rights has been approved in accordance with Section 78-3a-312, the division may not base its decision for placement of those children solely on the race, ethnicity, or cultural heritage of either the child or the prospective adoptive parents. The basis of a decision for placement shall be the best interest of the child.

Amended by Chapter 329, 1997 General Session