US Congress Senate Bill 1770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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November 1 2011 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Prohibits an entity that receives federal assistance and is involved in adoption or foster care placements from discriminating against prospective adoptive or foster parents solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status or on the basis of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in order to ensure compliance with, and ensure understanding of the legal, practice, and culture changes required by this Act in making foster care and adoption placement decisions, to provide specified technical assistance to all entities covered by this Act. Requires a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of whether states have substantially complied with this Act in eliminating policies, practices, or statutes that deny adoption rights on the basis of these criteria.

Every Child Deserves a Family Act

Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E.	Sen Akaka, Daniel K.	Sen Begich, Mark	Sen Blumenthal, Richard
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L.	Sen Franken, Al	Sen Kerry, John F.	Sen Lautenberg, Frank R.
Sen Menendez, Robert	Sen Merkley, Jeff	Sen Murray, Patty	Sen Sanders, Bernard
Sen Schumer, Charles E.	Sen Shaheen, Jeanne	Sen Wyden, Ron

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-11-01	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1681 (Related) 2011-05-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN01770:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1770is/pdf/BILLS-112s1770is.pdf