465 IAC 2-4-5 Compact administration

Sec. 5. (a) The department, by its administrator, shall designate a compact administrator and such deputy compact administrators as it deems necessary. The compact administrator shall coordinate all activities under this compact within his or her state. The compact administrator shall also be the principal contact for officials and agencies within and without the state for the facilitation of interstate relations involving this compact and the protection of benefits and services provided pursuant thereto. ln this capacity, the compact administrator will be responsible for assisting child welfare agency personnel from other party states and adoptive families receiving adoption and medical assistance on an interstate basis. (b) Acting jointly, the compact administrators shall develop uniform forms and administrative procedures for the interstate monitoring and delivery of adoption and medical assistance benefits and services pursuant to this rule. The forms and procedures so developed may deal with such matters as follows: (1) Documentation of continuing adoption assistance eligibility. (2) Interstate payments and reimbursements. (3) Any and all other matters arising pursuant to this compact. (c) Some or all of the parties to this compact may enter into supplementary agreements for the provision of, or payment for, additional medical benefits and services under section 4(d) of this rule; for interstate service delivery under section 3(d) of this rule; or for matters related thereto. Such agreements shall not be inconsistent with this rule, nor shall they relieve the party states of any obligation to provide adoption and medical assistance in accordance with applicable state and federal law and the terms of this rule. Administrative procedures or forms implementing the supplementary agreements referred to in this subsection may be developed by joint action of the compact administrators of those states which are party to such supplementary agreements. (d) It shall be the responsibility of the compact administrator to ascertain whether and to what extent additional legislation may be necessary in his or her own state to carry out the provisions of this section, section 3 of this rule, or any supplementary agreements under this rule. (e) The compact administrator shall establish a procedure to annually monitor interstate adoption assistance agreements to determine continuing eligibility.