behalf to accord a classification as an imme-
diate relative under section 201(b), and who 
has been adopted in a foreign state that is not 
a party to the Convention on Protection of Chil-
dren and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-
country Adoption, done at The Hague May 29, 
1993, or who is emigrating from such a foreign 
state to be adopted in the United States by a 
United States citizen and spouse jointly, or by 
an unmarried United States citizen who is at 
least 25 years of age, if— 
‘‘(I) the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity is satisfied that proper care will be 
furnished the child if admitted to the 
United States; 
‘‘(II) the child’s natural parents (or 
parent, in the case of a child who has 1 
sole or surviving parent), or other persons 
or institutions that retain legal custody of 
the child, have freely given their written ir-
revocable consent to the termination of 
their legal relationship with the child, and 
to the child’s emigration and adoption; 
‘‘(III) the child has a living parent or 
parents who has or have relinquished, or 
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will relinquish, the child voluntarily for the 
purposes of intercountry adoption, and the 
parent or parents are incapable of pro-
viding proper care for the child; 
‘‘(IV) the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, after considering whether there is a 
petition pending to confer immigrant sta-
tus on one or both natural parents, is sat-
isfied that the purpose of the adoption is 
to form a bona fide parent-child relation-
ship, and the parent-child relationship of 
the child and the natural parents has been 
terminated; and 
‘‘(V) in the case of a child who has 
not been adopted— 
‘‘(aa) the competent authority of 
the foreign state has approved the 
child’s emigration to the United 
States for the purpose of adoption by 
the prospective adoptive parent or 
parents; and 
‘‘(bb) the prospective adoptive 
parent or parents has or have com-
plied with any preadoption require-
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ments of the child’s proposed resi-
dence; and 
‘‘(ii) except that no natural parent or prior 
adoptive parent of any such child shall there-
after, by virtue of such parentage, be accorded 
any right, privilege, or status under this chap-
ter;’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (G)— 
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
striking ‘‘16’’ and inserting ‘‘18’’; 
(B) in clause (i)— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘be-
cause of the death or disappearance of, 
abandonment or desertion by, the other 
parent’’; and 
(ii) in subclause (III), by striking 
‘‘two living natural parents, the natural 
parents are’’ and inserting ‘‘a living parent 
or parents, who have relinquished or will 
relinquish the child voluntarily for the pur-
poses of intercountry adoption, the parent 
or parents are’’; 
(C) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-
serting a period; and 
(D) by striking clause (iii). 
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(f) RELATIVE ADOPTIONS; WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 
Section 502 of the Intercountry Adoption Act (42 U.S.C. 
14952) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH ALTERNATIVE PRO-
CEDURES FOR ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY RELATIVES.— 
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment 
of the Children in Families First Act of 2014, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall establish, by regulation, 
alternative procedures for completing the intercountry 
adoption of children by United States citizens who are re-
lated to such children by blood, marriage, or adoption. 
‘‘(b) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Home-
land Security, acting through the Director of U.S. Citizen-
ship and Immigration Services, may waive, on a case-by- 
case basis, applicable requirements for meeting the defini-
tion of a child under subparagraph (E), (F), or (G) of 
section 101(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)), or regulations issued with respect 
to such definitions, in the interests of justice or to prevent 
or respond to the threat of grave physical or emotional 
harm to the child if the petitioner establishes that— 
‘‘(1) the child substantially complies with the 
requirements under one of such subparagraphs; and 
‘‘(2) such a waiver would be in the child’s best 
interests.’’. 
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(g) DETERMINATION
OF APPLICABILITY
OF
THE 
HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION IN CERTAIN CASES.— 
The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the 
Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 
may determine, on a case-by-case basis, that a specific 
intercountry adoption case may proceed as a non-Conven-
tion adoption if— 
(1) the child’s country of origin or habitual res-
idence is a Convention country; 
(2) the central authority of the child’s country 
of origin or habitual residence has issued, or will 
issue, an adoption decree which that country con-
siders to be legal and valid under that country’s laws 
to the United States adoptive or prospective adoptive 
parents; and 
(3) the central authority of the child’s country 
of origin or habitual residence has informed the Sec-
retary or the Director that it does not consider the 
specific case to fall within the scope of the Hague 
Adoption Convention. 
(h) SPECIAL USE OF PAROLE AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security, acting through the Director of U.S. Citi-
zenship and Immigration Services, may grant parole 
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to a child if the Secretary or the Director determines 
that— 
(A) the child’s circumstances indicate that 
immediate unification with the parties seeking 
parole is in the child’s best interests; 
(B) waiting to complete other, more time 
consuming immigration processing could be sig-
nificantly harmful to the child’s well-being; 
(C) the party or parties seeking parole on 
behalf of the child— 
(i) have a pre-existing legal relation-
ship with the child, as evidenced by an 
adoption decree or a custody order; or 
(ii) demonstrate a pre-existing rela-
tionship with the child and an intent to es-
tablish a legal relationship with the child, 
which may be evidenced by— 
(I) a familial relationship with 
the child; 
(II) a close personal relationship 
with the child, such as— 
(aa) being matched with the 
child for an international adop-
tion by an adoption service pro-
vider or the competent authority 
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of the child’s country of origin; 
or 
(bb) documentation showing 
that the child’s parents, if de-
ceased or otherwise incapacitated 
and unable to provide proper care 
for the child, intended for the 
parties seeking parole to take 
custody of the child; or 
(III) the filing of adoption-re-
lated applications or petitions related 
to the adoption of the child; and 
(D) the child will receive proper care in the 
United States by the party or parties who seek 
parole on behalf of the child, based on a review 
of the suitability of the party or parties, which 
may include background check or completion of 
a home study conducted by a competent author-
ity. 
(2) MEETING THE 2-YEAR PERIODS FOR THE 
PURPOSES OF FILING AN IMMEDIATE RELATIVE PE-
TITION ON BEHALF OF AN ADOPTED CHILD.—If a 
child is granted parole under paragraph (1), is sub-
sequently adopted by the parties who sought parole, 
and such parties seek permanent immigration status 
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for the child under section 101(b)(1)(E) of the Im-
migration 
and 
Nationality 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C. 
1101(b)(1)(E))— 
(A) the 2-year period for legal custody of 
the child shall begin to accrue on the effective 
date of a grant of custody in the child’s country 
of origin or habitual residence or in the United 
States; 
(B) the 2-year period for physical custody 
of the child shall begin to accrue on the date on 
which the party or parties seeking parole for 
the child begin joint residence with the child, in 
the child’s country of origin or habitual resi-
dence or in the United States; and 
(C) the 2-year periods of joint residence 
and legal custody may accrue within or outside 
the United States. 
(i) RULEMAKING.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the 
Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 
shall issue regulations to carry out this section and the 
amendments made by this section. 
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TITLE II—ANNUAL REPORTING 
SEC. 201. ANNUAL REPORT ON CHILDREN LIVING WITHOUT 
FAMILIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than September 30, 
2014, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in 
consultation with the Director of the United States Agen-
cy for International Development and the Secretary of 
State, shall submit a report to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) identifies the number of children living 
without families; and 
(2) describes the degree to which the various 
family permanence solutions are being utilized. 
(b) CONTENT.—The report required under subsection 
(a) shall include— 
(1) a description of the world’s unparented chil-
dren, including— 
(A) a description and quantitative analysis 
of the world’s unparented children by country, 
identifying the nationality of the children phys-
ically present in each country and distin-
guishing among children who are citizens of the 
country, noncitizen children lawfully present in 
the country, and noncitizen children unlawfully 
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in the country, irrespective of a child’s par-
ticular immigration status; and 
(B) available data about such children bro-
ken into detailed categories and including— 
(i) information on their nationality, 
age, gender, and status; 
(ii) whether they have a living parent 
or parents and the status of those parents; 
(iii) whether the unparented children 
are considered abandoned, separated, relin-
quished, or have some other status; 
(iv) whether they are institutionalized 
or homeless; 
(v) information on how they are docu-
mented, including through birth registries, 
orphanage registries, United Nations High 
Commissioner for Refugees registration, or 
identity cards; and 
(vi) an assessment of their living con-
ditions based on indicators such as crude 
mortality rate, malnutrition rate, or other 
similar indicators; 
(2) a review of the previous fiscal year’s pro-
gramming in support of appropriate, protective, and 
permanent family care solutions, including project 
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descriptions for each project by country, goals of 
each project, amount awarded for each project, and 
evaluation of outcomes during the fiscal year; 
(3) an action plan covering proposed program-
ming and activities for the next fiscal year in sup-
port of family permanency solutions, including goals 
for each country in which programming will occur, 
proposed allocations of resources by country, types 
of projects proposed by country, amounts of awards 
proposed for each project, and desired outcomes for 
each country; 
(4) a review of trends over the last five years, 
including changes in the numbers and locations of 
unparented children and the reasons for the 
changes, such as new refugee arrivals, growing num-
bers of children abandoned at birth, and decreases 
in number of children in institutions; 
(5) an overall analysis of highest priority situa-
tions of concern for unparented children, including 
analysis of whether the children are in a location 
that provides a cooperative environment for assist-
ance programming and intercountry adoptions; 
(6) a description of how intercountry adoption 
and refugee resettlement for unparented refugee 
children has played a role in each country over the 
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last 10 years and the current status of such pro-
grams, including analysis of the situation with re-
spect to the Hague Adoption Convention and how 
the Convention has affected intercountry adoptions 
from the country; 
(7) aggregate reporting on intercountry adop-
tions to the United States, distinguishing between 
Convention adoptions and non-Convention adoptions 
and including— 
(A) the total number of intercountry adop-
tions involving immigration to the United 
States by year over the past 10 years and pro-
jected data for the next fiscal year, distin-
guishing between Convention and non-Conven-
tion adoptions, including aggregate data on the 
country from which each child emigrated, the 
State of residence of the adoptive parents, and 
the country in which the adoption was finalized; 
(B) the number of intercountry adoptions 
involving emigration from the United States, re-
gardless of whether the adoption occurred 
under the Convention and distinguishing be-
tween Convention and non-Convention adop-
tions, including the country to which each child 
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immigrated and the State from which each 
child emigrated; 
(C) the average time required for comple-
tion of the immigration portion of intercountry 
adoptions, distinguishing between Convention 
and non-Convention adoptions, calculated as the 
time between filing of the initial immigration- 
related adoption petition on behalf of a child 
and the approval of that child’s immigrant visa; 
and 
(D) the range of adoption fees charged in 
connection with intercountry adoptions involv-
ing immigration to the United States and the 
median of such fees; and 
(8) such additional information as may be re-
quested by members of the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on For-
eign Affairs of the House of Representatives. 
(c) CONSULTATIONS.—To the extent possible, des-
ignated representatives of the President should meet with 
members of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives not later than 2 weeks before 
the Secretary of State submits the report required under 
subsection (a) to discuss the information described in sub-
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section (b). The substance of such consultations should be 
printed in the Congressional Record. 
(d) REPEAL.—Section 104 of the Intercountry Adop-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 14914) is repealed. 
SEC. 202. COUNTRY REPORTS REGARDING SEVERE FORMS 
OF TRAFFICKING. 
Section 502B(h)(1)(B) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(h)(1)(B)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(x) What steps the government of that 
country has taken to reduce the number of chil-
dren living outside of family care. 
‘‘(xi) What steps the government of that 
country has taken to reduce the number of chil-
dren abused, neglected, or exploited.’’. 
TITLE 
III—PROMOTION 
OF 
A 
COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH 
FOR CHILDREN IN ADVER-
SITY 
SEC. 301. ESTABLISHMENT OF A USAID CENTER FOR EX-
CELLENCE FOR CHILDREN IN ADVERSITY. 
(a) CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE FOR CHILDREN IN 
ADVERSITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established within 
the United States Agency for International Develop-
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ment a Center of Excellence on Children in Adver-
sity. 
(2) COORDINATOR.—The Center for Excellence 
shall be headed by the Children in Adversity Coordi-
nator, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Develop-
ment. 
(3) OBJECTIVES.—The Center of Excellence on 
Children in Adversity shall work in consultation with 
the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Vulnerable 
Children and Family Security of the Department of 
State to promote greater United States Government 
coherence and accountability for whole-of-govern-
ment assistance to children in adversity and ensure 
that United States foreign assistance and develop-
ment programs are focused on the following objec-
tives: 
(A) The sound development of children 
through the integration of health, nutrition, and 
family support. 
(B) Supporting and enabling families to 
care for children through family preservation, 
reunification, and support of kinship care, 
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guardianship, and domestic and intercountry 
adoption. 
(C) Facilitating the efforts of national gov-
ernments and partners to prevent, respond to, 
and protect children from violence, exploitation, 
abuse, and neglect. 
(4) AUTHORITIES.—The Children in Adversity 
Coordinator, acting through nongovernmental orga-
nizations (including faith-based and community- 
based organizations), 
partner 
country 
finance, 
health, education, social welfare, and other min-
istries, and relevant executive branch agencies, is au-
thorized to— 
(A) operate internationally to carry out the 
programs and activities outlined in the Action 
Plan for Children in Adversity; 
(B) provide grants to, and enter into con-
tracts and cooperative agreements with, non-
governmental organizations (including faith- 
based organizations) to carry out this section; 
and 
(C) transfer and allocate United States 
Agency for International Development funds 
that have been appropriated for the purposes 
described in subparagraphs (A) and (B). 
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(5) FUNCTIONS.—In consultation with the As-
sistant Secretary of the Bureau of Children’s Affairs 
in the Department of State, the Children in Adver-
sity Coordinator shall, through the Center of Excel-
lence— 
(A) facilitate program and policy coordina-
tion related to the goals and objectives of the 
Action Plan for Children in Adversity among 
relevant executive branch agencies and non-
governmental organizations by auditing, moni-
toring, and evaluating such programs; 
(B) ensure that each relevant executive 
branch agency undertakes responsibility for ac-
tivities related primarily to those areas in which 
the agency has the greatest expertise, technical 
capability, and potential for success; 
(C) coordinate relevant executive branch 
agency activities related to the Action Plan for 
Children in Adversity; 
(D) establish due diligence criteria for all 
recipients of funds appropriated by the United 
States Government for assistance to children in 
adversity; and 
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(E) oversee the administration of the pri-
ority country demonstration program as de-
scribed in subsection (f). 
(6) ASSISTANCE.—The President is authorized 
to provide assistance, including through inter-
national, nongovernmental, or faith-based organiza-
tions, for programs in developing countries— 
(A) to increase the percentage of children 
achieving age-appropriate growth and develop-
mental milestones; 
(B) to increase the percentage of children 
under 5 years of age demonstrating secure at-
tachment with a primary caregiver; 
(C) to integrate health, nutrition, develop-
mental protections, and caregiving support for 
vulnerable children and their families; 
(D) to increase the percentage of children 
living within appropriate, permanent, safe, and 
protective family care, through family preserva-
tion and reunification, and through kinship 
care, guardianship, and domestic and inter-
country adoption, and to reduce the percentage 
of children living in institutions; 
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(E) to increase the percentage of families 
providing adequate nutrition, education oppor-
tunities, care, and protection for their children; 
(F) to reduce the percentage of children 
who experience violence, exploitation, abuse, 
and neglect; 
(G) to increase the percentage of children 
who receive appropriate care and protection 
after experiencing violence, exploitation, abuse, 
or neglect; 
(H) to increase public awareness that vio-
lence, exploitation, abuse, or neglect of children 
as unacceptable; 
(I) to increase the percentage of countries 
that ratify and implement relevant conventions 
or formally adopt internationally recognized 
principles, standards, and procedural safe-
guards to protect children from violence, exploi-
tation, abuse, and neglect; 
(J) to increase the percentage of children 
who have legal documentation and birth reg-
istration; 
(K) to increase the number of laws, poli-
cies, and practices in partner states that pro-
mote and strengthen child welfare and protec-
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tion at household, community, and national lev-
els is increased; 
(L) to increase national and local human 
resource capacity for child welfare and protec-
tion; 
(M) to increase the number of national and 
community systems effectively monitoring child 
welfare and protection concerns, programs, and 
outcomes; 
(N) to encourage and assist in the collec-
tion of data related to children outside of family 
care; 
(O) to increase the number of prevalence 
studies that measure and track trends in chil-
dren’s exposure to violence, exploitation, abuse, 
and neglect; 
(P) to increase the number of published 
outcome/impact evaluations on interventions to 
assist children outside of family care or mini-
mize exposure to violence, exploitation, abuse, 
and neglect that can be generalized to larger 
target groups; 
(Q) to increase the number of national 
governments and universities leading rigorous 
data collection, research, and monitoring and 
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evaluation studies related to child welfare and 
protection; and 
(R) to increase the number of United 
States Government-supported interventions for 
children in adversity designed using data from 
rigorous research methodologies. 
(b) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
SYSTEM.—To maxi-
mize the sustainable development impact of assist-
ance authorized under this section, and pursuant to 
the primary objective of the Action Plan for Chil-
dren in Adversity, the President shall establish a 
monitoring and evaluation system to measure the ef-
fectiveness of United States assistance to children in 
adversity. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The monitoring and eval-
uation system shall— 
(A) be aligned with the objectives and out-
comes outlined by the Action Plan for Children 
in Adversity; and 
(B) provide a basis for recommendations 
for adjustments to the assistance provided 
under this part. 
(c) PRIORITY
COUNTRY
DEMONSTRATION
PRO-
GRAM.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Develop-
ment, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
shall establish and carry out a priority country dem-
onstration program implementing the Action Plan 
for Children in Adversity over a period of 5 years in 
at least 6 countries. 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the programs 
established under subparagraph (1) shall be— 
(A) to demonstrate how research-based 
policies and programs to achieve the core objec-
tives of the Action Plan for Children in Adver-
sity can be successfully implemented on a na-
tional level; 
(B) to establish model programs that, once 
tested for efficacy, will be available for replica-
tion on a global basis; 
(C) to identify a comprehensive series of 
interventions which result in meeting the out-
comes and objectives of the Action Plan for 
Children in Adversity; and 
(D) to determine which in-country factors 
advance or negate the successful achievement of 
the outcomes and objectives of the action plan. 
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(3) CRITERIA
FOR
SELECTION
OF
COUN-
TRIES.—The criteria for selection of countries shall 
include— 
(A) magnitude and severity of the prob-
lems to be addressed; 
(B) partner country interest in participa-
tion in a comprehensive implementation of all 3 
goals of the Action Plan for Children in Adver-
sity, including, with respect to the second objec-
tive (Families First), expressed willingness to 
support the full complement of permanence so-
lutions (including family preservation, reunifica-
tion, kinship care, guardianship, and domestic 
and intercountry adoption), and commitments 
to support and allow monitoring and evaluation, 
as well as transparent reporting; 
(C) potential to leverage bilateral, multilat-
eral, and foundation investments; 
(D) potential to leverage other United 
States development investments; 
(E) regional diversity to maximize learning 
opportunities; and 
(F) level of economic development, with a 
focus on low- and middle-income countries. 
(d) REPEALS.— 
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(1) ASSISTANCE TO ORPHANS AND OTHER VUL-
NERABLE CHILDREN.—Section 135 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2152f) is re-
pealed. 
(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 5 of the Assist-
ance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in 
Developing Countries Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 
2152g) is hereby repealed. 
TITLE IV—FUNDING AND 
EFFECTIVE DATES 
SEC. 401. FUNDING. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS.—No 
additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 
This Act and such amendments shall be carried out using 
amounts otherwise available for such purposes, including 
unobligated balances of funds made available to carry out 
activities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151 et seq.). 
(b) LIMITATIONS ON USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) UNITED NATIONS.—No funds obligated in 
accordance with this Act may be awarded to the 
United Nations or any of its subsidiaries. 
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(2) ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Not more 
than two percent of the amounts described in sub-
section (a) may be used for administrative expenses. 
(c) FOCUS
OF ASSISTANCE.—Assistance provided 
under this Act— 
(1) shall focus primarily on promoting inter-
national child welfare, as set forth in this Act, for 
all children in adversity; and 
(2) may be provided on such terms and condi-
tions as the President determines appropriate. 
SEC. 402. EFFECTIVE DATES. 
(a) EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.—Sections 104 
and 202 and title III and IV shall take effect on the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE.—Sections 101, 
102, 103, and 201 shall take effect on the date that is 
1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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