Expressing support for a uniform adoption process of children from foster care and promoting the enactment by all States of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children to ensure more children in the United States are placed in safe, loving, and permanent homes.

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Bill Number

HRES 880

Introduced

Sep 21, 2016

Latest Action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

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Adoption and foster care Families Intergovernmental relations State and local government operations

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Summary

Supports a uniform adoption process of children from foster care.

Promotes the enactment by all states of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children to ensure more children in the United States are placed in safe, loving, and permanent homes.

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Sep 27, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
Sep 21, 2016

Introduced in House
Sep 21, 2016

Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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