Adoption Legislation Matrix


 

 

Bill #

Title

Sponsor

Cosponsors

Introduced

Intent

Status

H.R. 104
 
Adoption Information Act Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA) None 1/04/07 To require assurances that certain family planning service projects and programs will provide pamphlets containing the contact information of adoption centers. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health
H.R. 120 Intercountry Adoption Reform Act of 2007 (ICARE Act) Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA) None 2/2/07 To reform Federal procedures relating to intercountry adoption. Referred to House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Board Security, and Int'l Law.
H.R. 259 Baby Abandonment Prevention Act of 2007 Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) None 1/05/07 To provide for the establishment of a task force within the Bureau of Justice Statistics to gather information about, study, and report to the Congress, incidents of abandonment of infant children. Referred to the House Education and Labor Committee, Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities

H.R. 273

To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)

3 total cosponsors

1/05/07

To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.

Referred to the House Committee on Ways & Means

H.R. 289 Religious Freedom for Providers of Adoption, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Services Act Rep. Phillip English (R-PA) 11 total cosponsors 1/05/07 To protect the religious freedom of providers of adoption or foster care services. Referred to the House Committee on Ways & Means, Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
H.R. 471 Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2007 Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) 53 total cosponsors 1/12/07 To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs. Referred to the House Committee on Ways & Means
H.R. 628 Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) 75 total cosponsors 1/22/07 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that an individual may file an orphan petition for at least 2 years after approval of an advanced processing application. Referred to House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Board Security, and Int'l Law.
H.R. 687 Keeping Families Together Act of 2007 Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN) 44 total cosponsors
 
1/24/07 To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a State family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to State agencies for the purpose of obtaining mental health services for those children. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health
S.382 Keeping Families Together Act Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) 20 total cosponsors
 
1/24/07 A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a State family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to State agencies for the purpose of obtaining mental health services for those children. Referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
S.561 Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) 22 total cosponsors
 
2/13/07 A bill to repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs. Referred to the Senate Committee on Finance

 

 

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