H. R. 1952 

One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty 

An Act 

To amend the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 to require the Secretary of State 

to report on intercountry adoptions from countries which have significantly reduced 

adoption rates involving immigration to the United States, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019’’. 

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ANNUAL 

REPORT ON INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTIONS. 

(a) REPORT ELEMENTS.—Section 104(b) of the Intercountry 

Adoption Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14914(b)) is amended by adding 

at the end the following new paragraphs: 

‘‘(9) A list of countries that established or maintained a 

significant law or regulation that prevented or prohibited adoptions involving immigration to the United States, regardless 

of whether such adoptions occurred under the Convention. 

‘‘(10) For each country listed under paragraph (9), the 

date on which the law or regulation was initially implemented. 

‘‘(11) Information on efforts taken with respect to a country 

listed under paragraph (9) to encourage the resumption of 

halted or stalled adoption proceedings involving immigration 

to the United States, regardless of whether the adoptions would 

have occurred under the Convention. 

‘‘(12) Information on any action the Secretary carried out 

that prevented, prohibited, or halted any adoptions involving 

immigration to the United States, regardless of whether the 

adoptions occurred under the Convention. 

‘‘(13) For each country listed pursuant to paragraph (12), 

a description of— 

‘‘(A) what policies, procedures, resources, and safeguards the country lacks, or other shortcomings or circumstances, that caused the action to be carried out; 

‘‘(B) what progress the country has made to alleviate 

those shortcomings; and 

‘‘(C) what steps the Department of State has taken 

in order to assist the country to reopen intercountry adoptions. 

‘‘(14) An assessment of the impact of the fee schedule 

of the Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance 

Entity on families seeking to adopt internationally, especially 
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low-income families, families seeking to adopt sibling groups, 

or families seeking to adopt children with disabilities.’’. 

(b) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF REPORT.—Section 104 of the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14914) is amended by 

adding at the end the following new subsection: 

‘‘(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF REPORT.—The Secretary shall 

make the information contained in the report required under subsection (a) available to the public on the website of the Department 

of State.’’. 

(c) PRIVACY CONCERNS.—In complying with the amendments 

made by subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary shall avoid, to 

the maximum extent practicable, disclosing any personally identifiable information relating to United States citizens or the adoptees 

of such citizens. 

(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 104(a) of the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14914(a)) is amended 

by striking ‘‘International Relations’’ and inserting ‘‘Foreign 

Affairs’’. 

(e) APPLICATION DATE.—The amendments made by this section 

shall apply with respect to reports required to be submitted under 

section 104 of the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 

14914) beginning on the date that is 180 days after the date 

of enactment of this Act. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.