Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 by Rep. Randy Feenstra
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Mar 5, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Mar 4, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 4, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)
- Mar 4, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)
- Mar 4, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.
- Mar 4, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964)
- Mar 4, 2025Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Jan 21, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Jan 21, 2025Introduced in House