Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025 passed the House 42 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 106 words.
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025 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. 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.
- Committees
- House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee - Policy area
- Families: 7 of 453 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.5%)
- Sponsor
- 2 of 98 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 3, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 914 words
- Subjects
- Adoption and foster careChild safety and welfareCongressional oversightFamily relationshipsFamily servicesGovernment information and archives +1 more
- Latest action
- Mar 5, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 1
- 119th S. 162 Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025 R · Passed one chamber