LawLinter
Back to search
S 1300 - 114

Adoptive Family Relief Act

Became Public Law No: 114-70.

Bill highlights

Votes, text signals, source context, and latest movement from this record.

House votes
None linked

No House roll call vote is attached to this bill yet.

View votes
Source context
Linked data

1 CBO estimate · spending context

Review context
Bill text
4
analyzed sections
Open stats
Latest action
Oct 16, 2015

Signed by President.

View timeline

Bill Text Stats

4
Analyzed sections
N/A
Detected dollar total
0
Tax signals
0
Deadlines

Signal counts

Tax density 0.0%
Spending density 0.0%
Agency 3
Statutory Reference 3
Amendments 1
Benefits 1

Top agencies

Secretary of State may 1
Secretary of State may prescribe 1
Secretary of State shall 1

Statutory references

8 USC 1101 1
8 U.S.C. 1201 1
Public Law 114-70 1

House Votes

No House roll call votes have been linked to this bill yet.

Timeline

Oct 16, 2015

Signed by President.

Oct 16, 2015

Signed by President.

Oct 16, 2015

Became Public Law No: 114-70.

Oct 16, 2015

Became Public Law No: 114-70.

Oct 8, 2015

Presented to President.

Oct 8, 2015

Presented to President.

Oct 6, 2015

Mr. Franks (AZ) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

Oct 6, 2015

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6815-6817)

Oct 6, 2015

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1300.

Oct 6, 2015

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6815-6816)

Oct 6, 2015

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6815-6816)

Oct 6, 2015

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Jul 15, 2015

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Jul 15, 2015

Received in the House.

Jul 15, 2015

Held at the desk.

Jul 14, 2015

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5057; text as passed Senate: CR S5057)

Jul 14, 2015

Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5057; text as passed Senate: CR S5057)

Jul 9, 2015

Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Jul 9, 2015

Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.

Jul 9, 2015

Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.

Jul 9, 2015

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.

May 12, 2015

Introduced in Senate

May 12, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2798)

Affected Sectors

How to read this

Sectors are deterministic matches from official Congress.gov data and cached bill text. They are source-derived signals, not conclusions about intent or economic effect.

Evidence matches count official fields, normalized subjects, cached text snippets, or extracted entities that matched the sector rules.

Impact is a bill-level rollup used for sorting and filtering. It is not an economic impact estimate.

Confidence is the strongest individual match score behind that sector.

Evidence snippets show why a sector matched and can repeat when Congress.gov repeats the same phrase across official fields.

Affected-sector context is not available for this record yet.

CBO Cost Estimates

Official Congressional Budget Office cost estimate links associated with this bill through Congress.gov records.

How to read this

CBO estimates are official source documents with their own assumptions, scope, and publication dates. They can score a bill, a version of a bill, or a broader legislative package.

LawLinter stores the source link from Congress.gov and does not replace the CBO document. Use these cards as pointers for source review, not as independent fiscal advice.

CBO context shows source-attributed Congressional Budget Office cost estimates linked from official Congress.gov bill records. It is research context only; read the official CBO source document for assumptions, scope, and dates.

Implementation and spending context

Official USAspending.gov award records for agencies connected through bill-text agency signals. This can help review implementation-adjacent public spending context, but it is not proof that the law caused a specific award.

How to read this

USAspending records describe federal awards, grants, contracts, loans, direct payments, recipients, agencies, and dates reported through the official public spending system.

LawLinter links this context through agency names detected in bill text. That bridge is a research shortcut and should not be read as a legal or budget conclusion.

USAspending context shows official public award records for agencies connected through LawLinter bill-text agency signals. It is historical spending and award context only, not proof that this bill caused, authorized, required, or changed any award, grant, contract, payment, or program spending.

Agency sample by amount

Where the local sample is concentrated

$6.5B
Department of State $6.5B
121 sampled awards

Amounts reflect the local USAspending sample linked through agency text signals, not bill-caused spending.

Largest sampled awards

Award records in this context

GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. $1.2B
contracts · Department of State
THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA (THE GLOBAL FUND) $1.1B
direct_payments · Department of State
SOC LLC $708.3M
contracts · Department of State
TRIPLE CANOPY INC $648.2M
contracts · Department of State
TRIPLE CANOPY INC $483.1M
contracts · Department of State
GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES LLC $418.4M
contracts · Department of State

These bars summarize the visible sampled awards below so large awards are easier to scan.

Agency spending context

Department of State

Matched bill text signal: Secretary of State may
Sampled awards121
Award amount in local sample$6,544,964,503
Open official USAspending agency page
contracts · SAQMMA12C0130
Award amount
$1,219,847,694

IGF::OT::IGF THE PURPOSE OF THIS ACTION IS TO ESTABLISH A NEW CONTRACT WITH GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, LOGISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. THE INITIAL FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CONTRACT IS $22,304,578.00. THE OVERALL CONTRACT VALUE IS $2,200,000,000.00

View award profile Official USAspending source
contracts · SAQMMA17F1151

SOC LLC

Department of State
Award amount
$708,316,583

STATIC GUARD SERVICES - BAGHDAD EMBASSY COMPLEX - WORLDWIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES - BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICES - US DEPARTMENT OF STATE IGF::OT::IGF

View award profile Official USAspending source
contracts · 19AQMM22F0469

TRIPLE CANOPY INC

Department of State
Award amount
$483,060,799

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WORLDWIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES III. TASK ORDER - 04 BAGHDAD MOVEMENT PROTECTIVE SERVICES BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE AWARD

View award profile Official USAspending source
contracts · 19AQMM22F3446
Award amount
$418,370,061

REVISE AWARD TASK ORDER NUMBER FROM 19AQMM22F1759 TO 19AQMM22F3446 AND CORRECT COMPANY DBA NAME. WORLDWIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES III. TASK ORDER - 05 BAGHDAD EMBASSY SECURITY FORCE BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE AWARD

View award profile Official USAspending source

Campaign Finance Context

Related FEC/OpenFEC campaign-finance records for lawmakers and candidates tied to this bill through source-attributed legislative relationships. These are not donations to the bill itself.

How to read this

Amounts shown here are campaign-finance totals for sponsor or cosponsor-linked candidates and their committees in the displayed FEC cycle.

They are not donations to this bill, spending on this bill, or proof that money influenced or caused sponsorship, cosponsorship, votes, or legislative outcomes.

If multiple linked lawmakers have FEC records, this section can show multiple candidate cards and separate sponsor/cosponsor rollups.

Campaign-finance context uses source-attributed FEC/OpenFEC records that are related or relevant to the displayed bill, lawmaker, candidate, committee, or legislative relationship through deterministic links. It is research context only, not proof of influence, causation, endorsement, or that money caused a sponsorship, vote, or legislative outcome.

No FEC/OpenFEC campaign-finance context is currently linked for this bill.

Lobbying Context

Related LDA.gov filings where public lobbying activity descriptions reference this bill. These records are source-attributed research context, not evidence of influence or causation.

How to read this

LDA filings are public lobbying disclosure records. LawLinter links them here only when the filing activity text contains an exact-looking reference to this bill.

A filing can mention many issues, clients, agencies, or bills. A match should be treated as a pointer for review, not as a conclusion about why legislation changed or how any lawmaker acted.

Lobbying context uses source-attributed LDA.gov records that appear related to this bill through bill references in public lobbying activity descriptions. It is research context only, not proof of influence, causation, endorsement, lobbying effectiveness, or legislative intent.

No LDA.gov lobbying disclosure context is currently linked for this bill.

Summary

49 Public Law Oct 19, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.) Adoptive Family Relief Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to be adopted, by a U.S. citizen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived or refunded if: the child was unable to use the original immigrant visa during the period of its validity as a direct result of extraordinary circumstances, including the denial of an exit permit; and such inability was attributable to factors beyond the control of the adopting parent or parents.

81 Passed House without amendment Oct 7, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.) Adoptive Family Relief Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to be adopted, by a U.S. citizen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived or refunded if: the child was unable to use the original immigrant visa during the period of its validity as a direct result of extraordinary circumstances, including the denial of an exit permit; and such inability was attributable to factors beyond the control of the adopting parent or parents.

00 Introduced in Senate Sep 28, 2015

Adoptive Family Relief Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to be adopted, by a U.S. citizen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived or refunded if: the child was unable to use the original immigrant visa during the period of its validity as a direct result of extraordinary circumstances, including the denial of an exit permit; and such inability was attributable to factors beyond the control of the adopting parent or parents.

80 Reported to Senate without amendment Sep 28, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Adoptive Family Relief Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to be adopted, by a U.S. citizen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived or refunded if: the child was unable to use the original immigrant visa during the period of its validity as a direct result of extraordinary circumstances, including the denial of an exit permit; and such inability was attributable to factors beyond the control of the adopting parent or parents.

82 Passed Senate without amendment Sep 28, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.) Adoptive Family Relief Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to be adopted, by a U.S. citizen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived or refunded if: the child was unable to use the original immigrant visa during the period of its validity as a direct result of extraordinary circumstances, including the denial of an exit permit; and such inability was attributable to factors beyond the control of the adopting parent or parents.

Sponsors

Corker, Bob
Cosponsor

Corker, Bob

Republican · TN · C001071

Joined May 12, 2015
Website
N/A
Phone
N/A
Office
N/A
Johnson, Ron
Cosponsor

Johnson, Ron

Republican · WI · J000293

Joined May 12, 2015
Website
N/A
Phone
(202) 224-5323
Office
328 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Donnelly, Joe
Cosponsor

Donnelly, Joe

Democratic · IN-2 · D000607

Joined May 19, 2015
Website
N/A
Phone
N/A
Office
N/A

Amendments

No amendment records are currently available for this bill.
Compiled bill record. Bill pages combine Congress.gov source payloads, normalized relationships, cached text analysis, vote links, and deterministic sector/signal extraction. This is not an official government record or legal advice; use the official source link when accuracy matters.
DisclaimerReport issue