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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 579
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
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Introduced 2025-01-21Topic: social servicesSummary
Summary by the Congressional Research ServiceRecruiting 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.
Sponsors
- Randy Feenstra Republican sponsor
- 2 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-05 | Senate | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | refer |
| 2025-03-04 | House | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. | |
| 2025-03-04 | House | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963) | |
| 2025-03-04 | Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963) | floor pass | |
| 2025-03-04 | House | DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579. | |
| 2025-03-04 | House | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964) | |
| 2025-03-04 | House | Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. | |
| 2025-01-21 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | refer |
| 2025-01-21 | Introduced in House | introduce | |
| 2025-01-21 | Introduced in House | introduce |