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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jul 15, 1999
Adoption Awareness Act of 1999 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to national adoption organizations for programs to train the staff of eligible health centers in providing adoption counseling to pregnant women and infertile married couples.Excludes from such program eligible health centers that perform or make referrals for abortions, or provide or make referrals for counseling that presents abortion as an option.Directs the Secretary to require programs providing voluntary family planning services with such a grant to provide nondirective counseling and referrals regarding prenatal care and delivery, infant care, foster care, and adoption.Makes religious organizations eligible for such grants without discrimination and mandates their independence from Federal, State, and local governments, providing certain safeguards to ensure such independence.Provides the beneficiaries of assistance from religious organizations with certain rights, including the right not to be discriminated against by the religious organization.Authorizes appropriations.
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Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] · R–AZ
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Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8737)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.
Introduced in Senate
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