[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 56 (Thursday, April 2, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S4397]
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            ADOPTION INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Finance 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 735 and the 
Senate proceed to its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 735) to ensure States receive adoption incentive 
     payments for fiscal year 2008 in accordance with the 
     Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 
     of 2008.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements 
relating to the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 735) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                 S. 735

       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 ``Protecting Incentives for 
     the Adoption of Children with Special Needs Act of 2009''.

     SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTION ON PAYMENTS FOR FISCAL 
                   YEAR 2008.

       Effective as if included in the enactment of the Omnibus 
     Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-8), title II of 
     division F of such Act is amended under the heading 
     ``children and families services programs'' under the heading 
     ``Administration for Children and Families'', by striking 
     ``That without regard to the fiscal year limitations set 
     forth in section 473A of the Social Security Act, from the 
     amounts appropriated herein, the Secretary shall pay adoption 
     incentives for fiscal year 2008 in the same manner as such 
     incentives were awarded in fiscal year 2008 for the previous 
     fiscal year: Provided further,''.

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