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Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-01-21Topic: social services

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

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.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2026-06-15HouseHeld at the desk.
2026-06-15HouseReceived in the House.
2026-06-12SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
2026-06-11SenatePassed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)
2026-06-11Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)floor pass
2026-06-11SenateMeasure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2770-2771)
2026-06-11SenateSenate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.report
2026-06-11Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.report
2025-01-21SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.refer
2025-01-21Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.