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HR579Passed House

Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-21
Introduced
2
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Randy Feenstra
Randy Feenstra
Republican · IA · Representative
Votes with party: 97.7% (597 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/F000446

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (2)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

2 cosponsors on record at Congress.gov. The named list is syncing into Govwatch and will appear here shortly — view on Congress.gov in the meantime.

Latest Action

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

2025-03-05

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on FinanceReferred To · 2025-03-05
  • House Committee on Ways and MeansReferred To · 2025-01-21

Plain-English 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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Families
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