Sec. 201 Annual report on children living without families
In general— Not later than September 30, 2014, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of the United States Agency 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—
identifies the number of children living without families; and
describes the degree to which the various family permanence solutions are being utilized.
Content— The report required under subsection (a) shall include—
a description of the world’s unparented children, including—
a description and quantitative analysis of the world’s unparented children by country, identifying the nationality of the children physically present in each country and distinguishing among children who are citizens of the country, noncitizen children lawfully present in the country, and noncitizen children unlawfully in the country, irrespective of a child’s particular immigration status; and
available data about such children broken into detailed categories and including—
information on their nationality, age, gender, and status;
whether they have a living parent or parents and the status of those parents;
whether the unparented children are considered abandoned, separated, relinquished, or have some other status;
whether they are institutionalized or homeless;
information on how they are documented, including through birth registries, orphanage registries, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration, or identity cards; and
an assessment of their living conditions based on indicators such as crude mortality rate, malnutrition rate, or other similar indicators;
a review of the previous fiscal year’s programming in support of appropriate, protective, and permanent family care solutions, including project descriptions for each project by country, goals of each project, amount awarded for each project, and evaluation of outcomes during the fiscal year;
an action plan covering proposed programming and activities for the next fiscal year in support 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;
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 numbers of children abandoned at birth, and decreases in number of children in institutions;
an overall analysis of highest priority situations of concern for unparented children, including analysis of whether the children are in a location that provides a cooperative environment for assistance programming and intercountry adoptions;
a description of how intercountry adoption and refugee resettlement for unparented refugee children has played a role in each country over the last 10 years and the current status of such programs, including analysis of the situation with respect to the Hague Adoption Convention and how the Convention has affected intercountry adoptions from the country;
aggregate reporting on intercountry adoptions to the United States, distinguishing between Convention adoptions and non-Convention adoptions and including—
the total number of intercountry adoptions involving immigration to the United States by year over the past 10 years and projected data for the next fiscal year, distinguishing between Convention and non-Convention 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;
the number of intercountry adoptions involving emigration from the United States, regardless of whether the adoption occurred under the Convention and distinguishing between Convention and non-Convention adoptions, including the country to which each child immigrated and the State from which each child emigrated;
the average time required for completion 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
the range of adoption fees charged in connection with intercountry adoptions involving immigration to the United States and the median of such fees; and
such additional information as may be requested by members of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
Consultations— To the extent possible, designated 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 subsection (b). The substance of such consultations should be printed in the Congressional Record.
Repeal— Section 104 of the Intercountry Adoption Act (42 U.S.C. 14914) is repealed.