|
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 |