A bill to amend section 101 of title 38, United States Code, to limit the recognition of persons as legally adopted children of a veteran if adopted through courts in foreign countries.

Provides that in order for Veterans' Administration benefits to be paid on behalf of a child adopted by a veteran outside the United States such child must: (1) have been adopted by a decree of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction; (2) have been living in the veteran's household at the time of the adoption or at the time of the veteran's death; (3) have been receiving more than 50 percent of his or her support from the veteran at the time of the adoption or the time of the veteran's death; (4) not have been in the care and custody of a natural parent, unless such natural parent is the spouse of the veteran at the time of adoption; and (5) have been under 18 years of age at the time of the adoption.