Sponsor
Daniel Scott Sullivan
Senator · R-AK
Senator · R-AK
The bill improves on-base foster-care support and access to state-specific resources for military families through trained liaisons and standardized curricula, but requires sustained funding and administrative effort from the DoD or taxpayers to be effective.
Children and other dependents of military families will receive faster, better-informed foster-care support because on-base counselors are trained and designated as foster-care liaisons.
Military families can more easily find State-specific foster-care rules and local resources through Military OneSource, helping them navigate foster care when relocating.
Standardized HHS training curricula should improve the consistency and quality of foster-care assistance provided on installations.
If the liaison role is not adequately funded or staffed, military families and children could receive little or no meaningful assistance despite the policy change.
Implementing training and updating Military OneSource will raise DoD administrative costs, which may increase taxpayer burdens or force budget trade-offs within military programs.
Variation across State foster-care laws creates an ongoing training and workload burden for counselors, increasing complexity for DoD staff at multiple installations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD to train installation counselors on state foster-care rules, name trained counselors foster-care liaisons, add state-specific foster info to Military OneSource, and coordinate with HHS for curricula.
Official title: Improve counseling and access to information relating to foster care for military families.
Introduced July 8, 2025 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress July 8, 2025
Requires the Department of Defense to make sure counselors who work with military families are trained on the foster-care rules and resources of the state where their installation is located, names those trained counselors as foster-care liaisons, adds state-specific foster-care information to Military OneSource, and directs DoD to coordinate with HHS (Administration for Children and Families) to obtain curricula and resources. The changes aim to improve access to foster-care information and local support for service members and their families by establishing trained points of contact at military installations and by centralizing state-specific information through Military OneSource.