HR 1505 111th Congress House Families Adoption and foster care Family relationships Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Mental health Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009

Introduced: March 12, 2009 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps

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Became law

Mar 12, 2009

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Mar 12, 2009

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide certain services for birth parents who have placed a child for adoption, either directly or by grant to or contract with state or local governmental entities or public or private agencies or organizations, including licensed child welfare or adoption agencies or adoptive family groups and faith-based organizations.

Specifies such services for birth parents as: (1) post-legal adoption services; (2) individual, group, and family counseling; and (3) training of mental health professionals, social workers, and staff at hospitals and other appropriate birth care facilities relating to their interaction with birth parents and adoptive families.

What's happening now March 12, 2009

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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