H.Res. 915Urging the Government of Ukraine to review and modify its decision to suspend adoption by foreign nationals with a view to resuming such adoptions, particularly in cases where the mutual concerns of the Governments of Ukraine and of the United States can be substantially addressed.

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Sponsor: Christopher H. Smith [R-NJ-04]
Cosponsors: 37 · 20 Republicans · 17 Democrats
Policy area: International Affairs
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee
Latest action: Nov 21, 2024 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedDec 6, 2023
Passed the HouseNov 21, 2024

What the measure doesCRS summary

This resolution urges Ukraine to resume allowing certain U.S. citizens to adopt and to receive pre-adoptive placements of Ukrainian children. Specifically, the resolution:

recommends Ukraine consider, as particularly urgent, cases where prospective U.S. parents have completed Ukraine's adoption process and received approval prior to the suspension of adoptions by non-Ukrainians on March 13, 2022;

recommends that, in cases where Ukrainian children had already been placed in hosting programs, prospective U.S. parents be allowed to initiate the adoption process; and
recommends that prospective U.S. parents be allowed to apply to receive, in a pre-adoptive placement, Ukrainian children that previously participated in hosting programs and that have an uncertain legal status regarding adoption.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 915 as introduced in House on Dec 6, 2023. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

How every member votedHouse roll call 478

House Nov 21, 2024

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree

Urging the Government of Ukraine to review and modify its decision to suspend adoption by foreign nationals with a view to resuming such adoptions, particularly in cases where the mutual concerns of the Governments of Ukraine and of the United States can be substantially addressed

Passed · Two-thirds required

372 Yea 6 Nay 54 not voting

Crossed both parties 6 of 378 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Democrats, 4 Republicans.

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All members432 members

Democratic213 members

Republican219 members

marks half of the votes cast. A party’s majority is the side most of its voting members took.

Cosponsors37 · 20 Republicans · 17 Democrats

Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.Res. 915 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.

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