United StatesRecruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
What it does
This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care.
More detail
The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Mar 5Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.Latest
- Mar 4Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Mar 4Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964)
- Mar 4DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.
- Mar 4Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)Passed House
- Mar 4Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jan 21Introduced in House
- Jan 21Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.Introduced