Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers. The main policy domain is Social Welfare, Government Operations, Healthcare.
Who Benefits and How
families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act.
- Section id94632CC42CAD4430AFB79B8416336A02: 2. Adoption support services Section 421 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 621) is amended— in paragraph (4), by striking and at the end; by redesignating...
- Section id9AC99F25A78B440A9B68C937CA14E108: 3. Funding for adoption promotion and support services Paragraph (8) of section 473(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 673(a)) is amended to read as...
- Section id0A498FE7F9FF412FB82673AB2D093A60: 4. Federal grant program for post-adoption and post-legal guardianship mental health services Section 436(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629f(b)) is...
- Section id8C8043D3FAAD4E53ADF2CA4BB9A133FE: 5. Data collection on Adoption Disruption and Dissolution Section 479 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 679) is amended by adding at the end the following...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare, Government Operations, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill, Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
an understanding of—(i)the nature of adoption and legal guardianship as a form of family formation and the different types of adoption and legal guardianship
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