Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act
Latest action · Mar 1, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 22, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any "covered individual" (an individual whose Application for Advanced Processing of Orphan Petition was approved on or after July 1, 2005) may file a Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative for at least two years after the approval of the individual's application.
Prohibits the Secretary from requiring: (1) a covered individual who files a timely petition to pay any fees or complete any requirements already paid or completed in conjunction with the application or contingent on the amount of time that elapses between the application's approval and the petition's filing; and (2) any person who was a covered individual on this Act's enactment date from paying any fee for the timely filing of a petition unless that fee was required at the time the application was approved.
Cosponsors 75
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2007 to May 17, 2007; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Jan 22, 2007 |
| D-GA | Jim Marshall | Original | Jan 22, 2007 |
| R-GA | Tom Price | Original | Jan 22, 2007 |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-MN | Jim Ramstad | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Ric Keller | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Jan 31, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Thaddeus G. McCotter | Jan 31, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 22, 2007 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 1, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 1, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Jan 22, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 22, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2007Introduced in House
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