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                                                        Calendar No. 70

107th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 586

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                                 AN ACT

    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the 
 exclusion from gross income for foster care payments shall also apply 
  to payments by qualified placement agencies, and for other purposes.

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                              June 7, 2001

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar
                                                        Calendar No. 70
107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 586


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 16 (legislative day, May, 15), 2001

                                Received

                              June 6, 2001

                          Read the first time

                              June 7, 2001

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the 
 exclusion from gross income for foster care payments shall also apply 
  to payments by qualified placement agencies, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Foster Care Families 
Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION FOR FOSTER CARE PAYMENTS TO APPLY TO PAYMENTS BY 
              QUALIFIED PLACEMENT AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--The matter preceding subparagraph (B) of section 
131(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (defining qualified 
foster care payment) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--The term `qualified foster care payment' 
        means any payment made pursuant to a foster care program of a 
        State or political subdivision thereof--
                    ``(A) which is paid by--
                            ``(i) a State or political subdivision 
                        thereof, or
                            ``(ii) a qualified foster care placement 
                        agency, and''.
    (b) Qualified Foster Individuals To Include Individuals Placed by 
Qualified Placement Agencies.--Subparagraph (B) of section 131(b)(2) of 
such Code (defining qualified foster individual) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(B) a qualified foster care placement agency.''
    (c) Qualified Foster Care Placement Agency Defined.--Subsection (b) 
of section 131 of such Code is amended by redesignating paragraph (3) 
as paragraph (4) and by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(3) Qualified foster care placement agency.--The term 
        `qualified foster care placement agency' means any placement 
        agency which is licensed or certified by--
                    ``(A) a State or political subdivision thereof, or
                    ``(B) an entity designated by a State or political 
                subdivision thereof,
        for the foster care program of such State or political 
        subdivision to make foster care payments to providers of foster 
        care.''
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2001.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.

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