Adoption Promotion Act of 2003
P.L. 108-145
Overview
H.R. 3182
Enacted December 2, 2003
Purpose: To reauthorize the Adoption Incentive Payments program under part E of title IV of the Social Security Act and for other purposes
Major Provisions of the Act
- Amended title IV-E to revise requirements with respect to States eligible to receive adoption incentives payments to provide payments for the following:
- Special needs adoptions that are not of older child adoptions
- Adoptions of older children (age 9 and older)
- Modified requirements with respect to the determination of the numbers of special needs adoptions that are not of older children as well as adoptions of older children
- Authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to impose specified penalties against a State for failure to provide necessary data to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System