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.
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.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 118-347.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 118-347.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 283.
Mr. Feenstra moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H173-175)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3058.
At 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 The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
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Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H229)
Passed/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)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: 1/17/2024 CR H173-174)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.