CS/CS/HB 1309--Office of Adoption and Child Protection.(Children & Family Law)

In 2006, the Legislature established a centralized Office of Child Abuse Prevention within the Executive Office of the governor to examine, oversee, and implement child abuse prevention services. Recognizing that increasing the adoption rate for children who have been abused or neglected and cannot safely return to their families is an important part of the state's child abuse prevention efforts, this bill renames the Office of Child Abuse Prevention as the Office of Adoption and Child Protection (Office), and revises the purpose of the office to include the promotion of adoption