LEGISLATION TO RESTRICT PREDATORY ADOPTION PRACTICES IN OUR STATE Increasingly over the last ten years, New Mexico residents are being drawn into illegal, risky and expensive adoption processes by out of state facilitators or multi-state for profit adoption agencies. Members of the Alliance reviewed legislation from other states and drafted proposed legislation to restrict predatory adoption practices by out of state entities in our state. Our first effort was directed at prohibiting advertising by those adoption businesses that are not legally permitted to provide adoption services within New Mexico. New Mexicans that view this advertising in local news papers, telephone directories and radio stations cannot distinguish between those that can legally provide services in our state and those that are not legitimate. In the 2009 Legislative Session, Representative Rhonda King sponsored House Bill 660 ‘To Prohibit Certain Adoption Advertising’ Go to www.nmlegis.gov to view this bill. It passed through House Judiciary Committee and the full House and Consumer Affairs in the Senate. Time ran out before the Senate could vote House Bill 660. We are going to continue the fight to stop predatory adoption practices in our state and intend assist in submitting an even more comprehensive legislative package in the 2011 legislative session. The Alliances thanks Representative Rhonda King; the Office of the Attorney General and the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department all of whom worked together to help get this legislation passed.

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