To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit false statements in the offering of adoption services and to prohibit certain persons from soliciting or receiving compensation for placing a child for adoption, and to express the sense of the Congress that there should be civil remedies for victims of fraudulent adoption practices.
Anti-Fraudulent Intercountry Adoption Practices Act of 1996 - Prohibits any person offering to perform any act or render any service in connection with the placement of a child for adoption from knowingly falsifying or concealing a material fact or from making or using any false document.
Defines "material facts, documents, and representations" to include: (1) information about the political or legal conditions and circumstances in any country in which the legal proceedings of the adoption are to take place that may affect the adoption process; and (2) information released by the U.S. Department of State in the form of travel notices and other advisories regarding the adoption process in any such country.
Sets penalties for violations.
Prohibits knowingly soliciting or receiving money or anything of value for placing any child for adoption under circumstances that require such child to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce, with exceptions. Sets penalties for violations.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be civil remedies for victims of fraudulent adoption practices.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
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