A bill to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for a program of adoption assistance.

Requires each State having a plan approved under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make adoption assistance payments to parents who adopt a child who is eligible for assistance under such part and who is determined by the State to be a child with special needs. Stipulates that such payments shall take into account the economic circumstances of the adopting parents and the needs of the child. Defines a child with special needs as a child who: (1) cannot or should not be returned to his or her biological family; (2) is difficult to place because of ethnic background, age, or physical or mental handicaps; and (3) has not been able to be placed with appropriate adoptive parents without adoption assistance payments.