[111th Congress Public Law 20]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


Public Law 111-20
111th Congress

                                 An Act


 
  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. <<NOTE: May 15, 2009 -  [S. 735]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Protecting 
Incentives for the Adoption of Children with Special Needs Act of 
2009.>> 
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 <<NOTE: Effective date.>> as if included in the enactment 
of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-8), title II of 
division F of such Act <<NOTE: Ante, p. 774.>> 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,''.

    Approved May 15, 2009.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 735:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
            Apr. 2, considered and passed Senate.
            Apr. 29, considered and passed House.

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