To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase, and make permanent certain improvements to, the child tax credit.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the child tax credit for the first year a child is claimed as a qualifying child.

Renders the general terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2010) inapplicable to amendments made to the child tax credit by that Act.