HR 579 ยท Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Introduced
- Jan 21, 2025
- Latest action
- Mar 5, 2025
- Sponsor
- Rep. Randy Feenstra [R-IA-4]
- Policy area
- Families
- Cosponsors
- 2
Summary
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.
Recent actions
- Mar 5, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Mar 4, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 4, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)
- Mar 4, 2025 Passed/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, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.
- Mar 4, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964)
- Mar 4, 2025 Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Jan 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.