Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
Latest action · Jan 22, 2024 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 2, 2023
- Passed HouseJan 18, 2024
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
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 Office of the Administration for Children & 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.
Cosponsors 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 2, 2023 to Dec 19, 2023; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Original | May 2, 2023 |
| R-IA | Randy Feenstra | Original | May 2, 2023 |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Original | May 2, 2023 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | May 25, 2023 | |
| R-IA | Zachary Nunn | Nov 30, 2023 | |
| R-NY | Marcus J. Molinaro | Dec 19, 2023 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 2, 2023Markup Nov 30, 2023Reported Jan 16, 2024 |
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 22, 2024 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2024Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Jan 18, 2024Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H229)
- Jan 18, 2024Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: 1/17/2024 CR H173-174)
- Jan 18, 2024Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jan 17, 2024Mr. Feenstra moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jan 17, 2024Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H173-175)
- Jan 17, 2024DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3058.
- Jan 17, 2024At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Feenstra objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
- Jan 16, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 118-347.
- Jan 16, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 283.
- Nov 30, 2023Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Nov 30, 2023Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
- May 2, 2023Introduced in House
- May 2, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H229 | — | Jan 18, 2024 |
| House | Debate and remarks H162, H173–H175Text printed H173 | Daniel T. Kildee D-MI, Gwen Moore D-WI, Randy Feenstra R-IA, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick D-FL | Jan 17, 2024 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jan 2, 2024H.R. 3058, Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on November 30, 2023
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 74, May 2, 2023, page H2128.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1313 | Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023 | Identical bill | Apr 26, 2023 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to improve foster and adoptive parent recruitment and retention, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2024Referred in Senate
- Jan 18, 2024Engrossed in House
- Jan 16, 2024Reported in House
- May 2, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
