S 162
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
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 Senate
- Sponsor
- Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]
- Cosponsors
- 4
- Policy area
- Families
- Introduced
- 2025-01-21
- Latest action
- 2026-06-15: Held at the desk.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2026-06-15: Held at the desk.
- 2026-06-15: Received in the House.
- 2026-06-12: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2026-06-11: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)
- 2026-06-11: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2770-2771)