<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Adoption and foster care</title>
  <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/issues/atom/8667_adoption_and_foster_care" rel="self"/>
  <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/issues/show/8667_adoption_and_foster_care" rel="alternate"/>
  <updated>2009-10-29T10:05:00Z</updated>
  <author>
    <name>opencongress.org</name>
  </author>
  <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/8667</id>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-29:/action/213367</id>
    <updated>2009-10-29T10:05:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-29:/action/214159</id>
    <updated>2009-10-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-19:/action/211717</id>
    <updated>2009-10-19T22:39:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-19:/action/211735</id>
    <updated>2009-10-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.291 A resolution expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging Americans to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-sr291/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-29:/action/209886</id>
    <updated>2009-09-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A resolution expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging Americans to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3329 Look-back Elimination Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3329/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-24:/action/204732</id>
    <updated>2009-07-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate the requirement that, to be eligible for foster care maintenance payments, a child would have been eligible for aid under the former program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children at the time of removal from the home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3312 Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3312/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-23:/action/204267</id>
    <updated>2009-07-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for programs that reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3293 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3293/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-22:/action/204195</id>
    <updated>2009-07-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1458 Families for Orphans Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1458/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-16:/action/203327</id>
    <updated>2009-07-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to encourage the development and implementation of a comprehensive, global strategy for the preservation and reunification of families and the provision of permanent parental care for orphans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1434 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1434/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-09:/action/202044</id>
    <updated>2009-07-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
An original bill making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3070 Families for Orphans Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3070/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-26:/action/201506</id>
    <updated>2009-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To encourage the development and implementation of a comprehensive, global strategy for the preservation and reunification of families and the provision of permanent parental care for orphans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3110 Foreign Adopted Children Equality Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3110/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-26:/action/201522</id>
    <updated>2009-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide United States citizenship for children adopted from outside the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1376 A bill to restore immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted by United States citizens under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption to allow their admission to the United States.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1376/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-25:/action/201043</id>
    <updated>2009-06-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to restore immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted by United States citizens under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption to allow their admission to the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1359 Foreign Adopted Children Equality Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1359/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-25:/action/201205</id>
    <updated>2009-06-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide United States citizenship for children adopted from outside the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3031 Families for Orphans Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3031/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-24:/action/200977</id>
    <updated>2009-06-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To encourage the development and implementation of a comprehensive, global strategy for the preservation and reunification of families and the provision of permanent parental care for orphans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1286 Keeping Families Safe Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1286/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-18:/action/199964</id>
    <updated>2009-06-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow children in foster care to be placed with their parents in residential family treatment centers that provide safe environments for treating addiction and promoting healthy parenting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1217 Medicaid Services Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1217/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-09:/action/198269</id>
    <updated>2009-06-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve and protect rehabilitative services and case management services provided under Medicaid to improve the health and welfare of the nation's most vulnerable seniors and children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2524 Dave Thomas Adoption Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2524/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-20:/action/196064</id>
    <updated>2009-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Enacted: S.735 Protecting Incentives for the Adoption of Children with Special Needs Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s735/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-15:/action/195634</id>
    <updated>2009-05-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to ensure States receive adoption incentive payments for fiscal year 2008 in accordance with the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 15, 2009: Became Public Law No: 111-20.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Signed by President: S.735 Protecting Incentives for the Adoption of Children with Special Needs Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s735/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-15:/action/195633</id>
    <updated>2009-05-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to ensure States receive adoption incentive payments for fiscal year 2008 in accordance with the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 15, 2009: Signed by President.    </content>
  </entry>
</feed>
