Judiciary committee advances adoption-reform bill to tighten agency oversight and add protections for birth parents The interim judiciary committee voted to advance draft adoption amendments that raise reporting standards, create a child-placing-agency consortium, increase certain payment caps and add a 72-hour revocation window for consent; the measure passed as a committee bill with two no votes.

Utah's new adoption reform bill promises greater transparency and protections for birth and adoptive parents, but not everyone is convinced it's enough.

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