Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
The summary
What this bill does
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.
Legislative timeline
From introduction
Jan 21, 2025
Introduced & referred to committee
Congressional support
Sponsors & Cosponsors
U.S. Representative - IA District 4 · R-IA
Roll-call vote
The vote, by member
The vote, by member
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Bill Metadata
| Congress | 119 |
| Bill Type | HR |
| Bill Number | 579 |
| Origin Chamber | House |
| Current Status | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| Policy Area | Families |
| Primary Committee | Not assigned |
| Introduced | January 21, 2025 |
| Latest Action | March 5, 2025 |
| Cosponsors | 2 · House vote — · — views |