HR 579

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.

Bill status

Status

Passed House

Sponsor

Rep. Randy Feenstra [R-IA-4]

Cosponsors

2

Policy area

Families

Introduced

2025-01-21

Latest action

2025-03-05: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Committee referrals

• Finance Committee: Senate · Referred To · 2025-03-05
• Ways and Means Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-01-21

Recent actions

• 2025-03-05: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• 2025-03-04: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
• 2025-03-04: 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)
• 2025-03-04: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.