The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 33 : Human Services
Chapter 059 : Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children [Contingently enacted]
Subchapter 001 : INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN[CONTINGENTLY ENACTED]
(Cite as: 33 V.S.A. § 5914)-
§ 5914. Member states; effective date and amendment [Contingently enacted]
(a) Any state is eligible to become a member state.
(b) The Compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the Compact into law by no fewer than 35 states. The effective date shall be the later of July 1, 2007 or upon enactment of the Compact into law by the 35th state. Thereafter it shall become effective and binding as to any other member state upon enactment of the Compact into law by that state. The executive heads of the state human services administration with ultimate responsibility for the child welfare program of nonmember states or their designees shall be invited to participate in the activities of the Interstate Commission on a nonvoting basis prior to adoption of the Compact by all states.
(c) The Interstate Commission may propose amendments to the Compact for enactment by the member states. No amendment shall become effective and binding on the member states unless and until it is enacted into law by unanimous consent of the member states. (Contingently added 2021, No. 101 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
