Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 by Sen. Chuck Grassley
The Senate passed it. The House 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.
- Jun 15, 2026Held at the desk.
- Jun 15, 2026Received in the House.
- Jun 12, 2026Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Jun 11, 2026Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)
- Jun 11, 2026Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)
- Jun 11, 2026Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2770-2771)
- Jun 11, 2026Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
- Jan 21, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Jan 21, 2025Introduced in Senate