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H.R. 628: Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act

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Date Senator Action
2007-03-20 / 12:00:00 AM Spencer Bachus Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Judy Biggert Cosponsor
2007-03-09 / 12:00:00 AM Marsha Blackburn Cosponsor
2007-03-09 / 12:00:00 AM Rick Boucher Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Michael C. Burgess Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Dan Burton Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM Ken Calvert Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Dave Camp Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Shelley Moore Capito Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Michael N. Castle Cosponsor
2007-04-17 / 12:00:00 AM Lincoln Davis Cosponsor
2007-03-09 / 12:00:00 AM John Doolittle Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Vernon Ehlers Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jo Ann Emerson Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Philip English Cosponsor
2007-03-29 / 12:00:00 AM Tom Feeney Cosponsor
2007-04-17 / 12:00:00 AM J. Randy Forbes Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Trent Franks Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM Scott Garrett Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Gerlach Cosponsor
2007-03-29 / 12:00:00 AM Wayne Gilchrest Cosponsor
2007-04-17 / 12:00:00 AM Bob Goodlatte Cosponsor
2007-02-27 / 12:00:00 AM Bart Gordon Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Kay Granger Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Peter Hoekstra Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Sheila Jackson-Lee Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Ric Keller Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Patrick Kennedy Cosponsor
2007-02-08 / 12:00:00 AM Peter King Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jerry Lewis Cosponsor
2007-01-22 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Marshall Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Carolyn McCarthy Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Thad McCotter Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Michael McNulty Cosponsor
2007-02-08 / 12:00:00 AM Jeff Miller Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jerry Moran Cosponsor
2007-03-29 / 12:00:00 AM Marilyn Musgrave Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Ron Paul Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Mike Pence Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Todd Russell Platts Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jon Porter Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Deborah Pryce Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Ramstad Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Michael J. Rogers Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Saxton Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM John Shadegg Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Christopher H. Shays Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM John Shimkus Cosponsor
2007-01-22 / 12:00:00 AM Adam Smith Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Vic Snyder Cosponsor
2007-02-08 / 12:00:00 AM Lee Terry Cosponsor
2007-05-17 / 12:00:00 AM Todd Tiahrt Cosponsor
2007-02-08 / 12:00:00 AM Patrick Tiberi Cosponsor
2007-02-27 / 12:00:00 AM Chris Van Hollen Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Greg Walden Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Jerry Weller Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM Robert Wexler Cosponsor
2007-03-23 / 12:00:00 AM Roger Wicker Cosponsor
2007-05-01 / 12:00:00 AM Joe Wilson Cosponsor
2007-01-22 / 12:00:00 AM Heather Wilson Introduced
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Frank Wolf Cosponsor
2007-03-09 / 12:00:00 AM Dan Lungren Cosponsor
2007-01-22 / 12:00:00 AM Tom Price Cosponsor
2007-02-27 / 12:00:00 AM Randy Kuhl Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Virginia Foxx Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Allyson Schwartz Cosponsor
2007-03-01 / 12:00:00 AM Charles Dent Cosponsor
2007-03-29 / 12:00:00 AM Louie Gohmert Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM Thelma Drake Cosponsor
2007-01-31 / 12:00:00 AM Luis Fortuño Cosponsor
2007-02-08 / 12:00:00 AM Mazie K. Hirono Cosponsor
2007-03-20 / 12:00:00 AM Tim Walberg Cosponsor
2007-03-23 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Jordan Cosponsor
2007-03-09 / 12:00:00 AM Chris Carney Cosponsor
2007-02-14 / 12:00:00 AM David Davis Cosponsor
Full title:
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.

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.

Text:

HR 628 IH

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 628

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.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 22, 2007

Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico (for herself, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mr. PRICE of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


A BILL

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.

    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 `Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act'.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE ORPHAN PETITION.

    (a) In General- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that any covered individual may file an orphan petition for at least 2 years after the approval of the individual's advanced processing application.
    (b) Fees and Requirements- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall not require a covered individual who timely files an orphan petition to pay any fees or complete any requirements that--
      (1) the individual has already paid or completed in conjunction with the advanced processing application; or
      (2) are contingent on the amount of time that elapses between the approval of the advanced processing application and the filing of the orphan petition.
    (c) Additional Fees- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall not require any person who was a covered individual on the date of enactment of this Act to pay any fee for the timely filing of an orphan petition, unless that fee was required at the time the advanced processing application was approved.
    (d) Definitions- In this section:
      (1) The term `covered individual' means any individual whose advanced processing application was approved on or after July 1, 2005.
      (2) The term `orphan petition' means the Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative or such form that is a successor to that form.
      (3) The term `advanced processing application' means the Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition or such form that is a successor to that form.