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Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
PART 4 - SERVICES FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN
CHAPTER 2.2 - State Adoption Services
Section 16131.
Universal Citation: CA Welf & Inst Code § 16131 (2018)
16131.
It is the intent of the Legislature to conform state statutes to federal legislation, including the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (Public Law 113-183) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), and to reinvest any incentive payments received through implementation of the federal act into the child welfare system in order to provide adoption services and other legal permanency options for children.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 425, Sec. 25. (SB 794) Effective January 1, 2016.)
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