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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 113–74: To require Certificates of Citizenship and other Federal documents to reflect name and date of birth determinations made by a State court and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<citableAs>Public Law 113–74</citableAs><citableAs>127 Stat. 1212</citableAs>
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<dc:date>2014-01-16</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 113–74—JAN. 16, 2014</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/127/1212">127 STAT. 1212</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>113–74</docNumber>
<congress value="113">113th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To require Certificates of Citizenship and other Federal documents to reflect name and date of birth determinations made by a State court and for other purposes.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x86986fdd-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2014-01-16">Jan. 16, 2014</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x86986fde-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/113/s/1614">S. 1614</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x86986fdf-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Accuracy for Adoptees Act.</p><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x86986fe0-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1101">8 USC 1101 note</ref>.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d259774e92" identifier="/us/pl/113/74/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Accuracy for Adoptees Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d259774e102" identifier="/us/pl/113/74/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>RECOGNITION OF STATE COURT DETERMINATIONS OF NAME AND BIRTH DATE.</heading><content class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x869896f1-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Section 320 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1431">8 U.S.C. 1431</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y869896f2-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">“(c) </num><content>A Certificate of Citizenship or other Federal document issued or requested to be amended under this section shall reflect the child’s name and date of birth as indicated on a State court order, birth certificate, certificate of foreign birth, certificate of birth abroad, or similar State vital records document issued by the child’s State of residence in the United States after the child has been adopted or readopted in that State.”</content></subsection>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2014-01-16">January 16, 2014</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/113/s/1614">S. 1614</ref>:</heading>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 159 (2013):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x869896f3-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 19, considered and passed Senate.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x869896f4-e875-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 23, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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