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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved June 2, 1987.

CHAPTER 606
(Senate Bill 183)

AN ACT concerning

Adoption and Guardianship -
Reports and Hearings on Child's Status

FOR the purpose of altering certain notice requirements
pertaining to a delay in placement for adoption or
completion of adoption; requiring the court to hold hearings
to review the progress toward adoption and the child's
current placement and circumstances in cases in which there
has been a delay; exempting the notice and hearing
requirements for certain cases when the child is in a
long-term foster care with a specified family; requiring
annual hearings if the long-term foster care is subsequently
changed; authorizing the court to require the guardian to
file periodic written progress reports on the child's
status, with certain recommendations; and generally
relating to reporting and hearing requirements for
guardianship and adoption.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-319

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-319.

(a) In this section, "disrupted placement" means the
permanent removal of a child to be adopted from the prospective
adoptive family or adopting individual by a child placement
agency before the entry of a final decree of adoption.

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