Search Results: keywords:"criminal background check"

  • H. R. 8617 — To provide for automatic acquisition of United States citizenship for certain internationally adopted individuals, and for other purposes.
    Status:Introduced in House
    Words:643

    H.R. 8617, also known as the "Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024," aims to grant automatic U.S. citizenship to certain individuals adopted internationally by U.S. citizens. The bill updates the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow these adoptees to gain citizenship if adopted by a U.S....

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    The bill, called the "Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024," wants to make sure that kids from other countries who are adopted by American parents can become U.S. citizens more easily, as long as they follow certain rules. It also says that if they move to America, they must have a background check to make sure they haven't done anything bad.

  • H. R. 9053 — To require notification of lack of basis for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to have transmitted certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the national instant criminal background check system.
    Status:Introduced in House
    Words:346

    H. R. 9053, titled the "Veterans 2nd Amendment Restoration Act of 2024," requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to notify the Department of Justice when there isn't a valid reason for sharing certain veterans' personal information. Specifically, it addresses cases where...

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    The "Veterans 2nd Amendment Restoration Act of 2024" is a plan that makes sure the people taking care of veterans don't send the wrong information about them to the police background check system if the veteran isn't really sick. It's all about making sure veterans' rights are protected and not wrongly taken away.

  • S. 4448 — To provide for the automatic acquisition of United States citizenship for certain internationally adopted individuals, and for other purposes.
    Status:Introduced in Senate
    Words:692

    S. 4448, known as the "Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024," aims to automatically grant U.S. citizenship to certain individuals adopted internationally by U.S. citizen parents. The bill specifies that this applies to adoptees who were under 18 when adopted and were lawfully in...

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    The Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024 wants to make sure that children who are adopted from other countries by American parents can become U.S. citizens automatically, just like magic, if they were 17 or younger at the time of adoption and already living in the U.S.

  • H. R. 7212 — To address the behavioral health workforce shortages through support for peer support specialists, and for other purposes.
    Status:Introduced in House
    Words:1,442

    H. R. 7212, also known as the PEER Support Act, aims to address shortages in the behavioral health workforce by supporting peer support specialists. This bill defines a peer support specialist as someone with lived experience of recovery from mental health or...

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    H. R. 7212, called the PEER Support Act, wants to make sure there are enough people who can help others with mental health or addiction problems by supporting special helpers called peer support specialists, who have been through similar experiences themselves. It also plans to create a new office to help these specialists and make it easier for them to get jobs, even if they've had past troubles.