Adoption Counts Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6700 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6700

 To require the Children's Bureau to collect and maintain information 
        regarding all private adoptions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2023

 Mr. Lamborn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Children's Bureau to collect and maintain information 
        regarding all private adoptions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Adoption Counts Act''.

SEC. 2. ADOPTION STATISTICS.

    (a) In General.--Section 473A(c) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 673b(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Additional requirement.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a 
                State shall not be considered to be in compliance with 
                this subsection for a fiscal year if any court of the 
                State that finalized the adoption of a person pursuant 
                to a voluntary consent or relinquishment in the 
                calendar year ending in the preceding fiscal year has 
                not submitted to the Children's Bureau of the 
                Department of Health and Human Services the report 
                described in subparagraph (B) for the calendar year.
                    ``(B) Report.--The report described in this 
                subparagraph for a calendar year is a report that 
                contains the following information about each adoption 
                referred to in subparagraph (A) finalized by the court 
                in the calendar year:
                            ``(i) Whether the person at the time of the 
                        adoption was less than 1 year of age, not less 
                        than 1 year of age and less than 3 years of 
                        age, not less than 3 years of age and less than 
                        18 years of age, or not less than 18 years of 
                        age.
                            ``(ii) In the case that the person at the 
                        time of the adoption was less than 18 years of 
                        age--
                                    ``(I) Whether the person was 
                                adopted by a step-parent, relative, or 
                                legal guardian of the child, or none of 
                                the foregoing.
                                    ``(II) Whether the person was born 
                                as a result of gestational surrogacy.
                                    ``(III) Whether the adoptive 
                                parents of the person had been given 
                                custody of the child through an 
                                international adoption placement or 
                                international guardianship.
                                    ``(IV) At the option of the court, 
                                the race of the person.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the 1st day of the 1st calendar year that begins after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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