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[CITE: 42USC673a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
 SUBCHAPTER IV--GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES 
              WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES
 
    Part E--Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance
 
Sec. 673a. Interstate compacts

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take all possible 
steps to encourage and assist the various States to enter into 
interstate compacts (which are hereby approved by the Congress) under 
which the interests of any adopted child with respect to whom an 
adoption assistance agreement has been entered into by a State under 
section 673 of this title will be adequately protected, on a reasonable 
and equitable basis which is approved by the Secretary, if and when the 
child and his or her adoptive parent (or parents) move to another State.

(Pub. L. 96-272, title I, Sec. 101(a)(4)(B), June 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 
512.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Adoption Assistance and Child 
Welfare Act of 1980, and not as part of the Social Security Act which 
comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    ``Secretary of Health and Human Services'' was substituted for 
``Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in text, pursuant to 
Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695, which 
is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
