Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 1. Government § 350C-2

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

“Adoption assistance” means the payment or payments for the maintenance of a child which are made or committed to be made pursuant to this chapter.

“Adoption assistance state” means the state that is a signatory to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case.

“Child” means a person less than eighteen years of age, or a person less than twenty-one years of age who has mental or physical handicaps that warrant the continuation of assistance beyond the age of eighteen.

“Child with special needs” means a child for whom the department has determined that:

“Department” means the department of human services and its authorized representatives.

“Residence state” means the state of which the child is a resident by virtue of the residence of the adoptive parents.

“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of the United States.