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assistance; or

(B) a voluntary placement agreement or voluntary relinquishment;

(2) meets the medical or disability requirements of Title XVI, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 53.299, related to eligibility for SSI benefits; or

(3) was residing in a foster family home or child care institution with the child’s minor parent, and the child’s minor parent was in that foster family home or child care institution under

(A) an involuntary removal of the child from the home in accordance with a judicial determination that remaining in the home would be contrary to the welfare of the child; or

(B) a voluntary placement agreement or voluntary relinquishment. (b) Subject to (d) of this section, a child is an applicable child under Title IV-E, if an adoption assistance agreement as described in (g) of this section has been entered into during the federal fiscal years from 2018 through 2024, as set out in 42 U.S.C. 673(e)(1) (sec. 473(e)(1) of the Social Security Act). (c) A child who meets the requirements of (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, and is an applicable child under (b) of this section, is eligible for an adoption subsidy under this section if

(1) a prior adoption has been dissolved, or the child’s adoptive parents have died; for purposes of this paragraph, the child’s eligibility is based on the child’s previous eligibility for Title IV-E adoption assistance; or

(2) the child would have been determined eligible for a subsidy if P.L. 105-89 (Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997) had been in effect at the time that the determination would have been made. (d) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, beginning with January 1, 2018, any child who has reached the child’s second birthday by the end of the federal fiscal year in which the adoption assistance agreement as described in (g) of this section is entered into is an applicable child under Title IV-E, if the child meets the requirements of (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section and

(1) the child has been in foster care under the responsibility of the department for at least 60 consecutive months; or

(2) the child is a sibling of a child who is an applicable child under (a) of this section, and is to be placed in the same placement as the applicable child who is that child’s sibling. (e) If a legal guardian of a child who is receiving Title IV-E relative guardianship assistance under 7 AAC 53.226 seeks to adopt the child post-guardianship, in addition to the other adoption eligibility requirements of this section, the placement of the child with the relative guardian and any associated guardianship assistance payments made on behalf of the child before the finalization of the post-guardianship adoption, will be considered never to have been made for purposes of the adoption eligibility determination.