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107th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                            H. CON. RES. 228

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost 1 or 
   both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade 
Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with all necessary assistance, 
  services, and benefits and urging Federal, State or local agencies 
  responsible for providing such assistance, services and benefits to 
move expeditiously in providing such assistance, services and benefits 
                           to those children.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 228

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That this resolution may be cited as the ``Put Our Children First 
Resolution of 2001''.
    Sec. 2. (a) The Congress is grateful to the Federal, State, and 
local agencies for their actions to deliver prompt services to the 
children and families impacted by the events of September 11, 2001, and 
recognizes their efforts to expedite and streamline these important 
services.
    (b) It is the sense of the Congress that the children who lost 1 or 
both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade 
Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with such immediate 
assistance, services, and benefits for which they are eligible and 
which are necessary for their well-being, including--
            (1) foster care assistance;
            (2) adoption assistance;
            (3) medical, nutritional, and psychological care;
            (4) educational services; and
            (5) such additional care or services as may be necessary.
    (c) The Congress urges each Federal, State, and local agency 
responsible for providing assistance, services, and benefits referred 
to in subsection (b) to--
            (1) act without delay to provide such assistance, services, 
        and benefits to children described in that paragraph; and
            (2) to the maximum extent possible, take such steps as are 
        necessary to ensure that such assistance, services, and 
        benefits are provided in the case of any such child within 60 
        days of the date of the determination of the death of the 
        child's parent, parents, or guardian.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 15, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.

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