BANGOR, Maine (AP) Maine’s Republican senator is joining a bipartisan group of colleagues that wants to close a loophole in U.S. citizenship rules to benefit internationally adopted children.

Sen. Susan Collins is among the supporters of the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2021. The proposal would make changes to the Child Citizenship Act of 2000.

Collins and other lawmakers said the current citizenship rules only apply to adoptees who were under the age of 18 when the law took effect in February 2001.