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S. 162119th CongressPassed one chamberLatest action Jun 15, 2026Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Introduced:
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States must plan, track, and report data on recruiting foster and adoptive families starting October 2026.
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The bill requires every state to create a "family partnership plan" identifying relatives as caregivers, building per-child recruitment plans, involving youth, and using data to track progress. States must also form foster family advisory boards and regularly report data on licensed families, unused families, group home placements, and why placements fail or families stop fostering, including racial and ethnic recruitment gaps.
This affects state child welfare agencies, foster and adoptive families, birth and kinship families, and children in foster care.
States gain new planning, data-collection, and reporting obligations, with some timing flexibility if state legislation is needed to comply.
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Right now: it passed the Senate, and the official record shows nothing new since. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Held at the desk.