ADOPT bill

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 109th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

MBD BeanSponsor

113 cosponsors · 105 D, 8 R

MHR Hart SBD Bishop CBD Brown SBD Brown RBD Brady TBD Baldwin SBD Berkley TBD Bishop MBD Bordallo JBD Barrow DBD Boren JCD Costello JCD Crowley DCD Cardoza RCD Carnahan ECD Cleaver HCD Cuellar DDD Davis PDD DeFazio DDD DeGette RDD DeLauro JDD Dingell MDD Doyle LDD Davis ADD Davis CED Edwards LED Evans RED Emanuel SFD Farr HFD Ford LGD Gutiérrez AGD Green JHD Harman MHD Hinchey RHD Hinojosa THD Holden SHD Hoyer MHD Honda BHD Higgins SID Israel SJD Jackson Lee WJD Jefferson EJD Johnson SJD Jones PKD Kanjorski MKD Kaptur PKD Kennedy CKD Kilpatrick RKD Kind DKD Kucinich MKR Kirk TLD Lantos BLD Lee JLD Larson DLD Lipinski CMD Maloney CMD McCarthy JMD McGovern CMD McKinney MMD McNulty JMD Millender-McDonald AMD Mollohan JMD Murtha DMD Moore JMD Marshall MMD Michaud BMD Miller DMD Matsui JOD Oberstar JOD Olver DPD Payne EPD Pomeroy CRD Rangel SRD Rothman BRD Rush TRD Ryan JSD Serrano BSD Sherman ISD Skelton LSD Slaughter VSD Snyder TSD Strickland BSD Stupak JSD Schakowsky ASD Schiff LSD Sánchez ASD Schwartz ETD Tauscher BTD Thompson MUD Udall NVD Velázquez CVD Van Hollen CWR Weldon RWD Wexler LWD Woolsey AWD Weiner DWD Watson DWD Wasserman Schultz JBD Baca CFD Fattah SHD Herseth Sandlin CRD Ruppersberger JSR Shimkus GKD Butterfield RGD Grijalva SOD Ortiz MOD Owens HWD Waxman RLR LaHood HHR Hyde CSR Smith TJR Johnson JJD Jackson

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Advocates Dedicated to Older Child Parental Tax Credit (ADOPT) Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a $2,000 tax credit for costs associated with the adoption of a child who has reached nine years of age before the adoption decree becomes final. Allows the credit each year until such child attains the age of 19.