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Requires States to adopt a new Family Partnership Plan describing how they will recruit, engage, and support relatives and foster/adoptive families, developed with input from families, providers, and youth with foster-care experience. States must collect and report specified data annually and identify barriers to matching children with families. The bill also expands the annual child‑welfare outcomes report to Congress to include State‑by‑State detail on foster and adoptive family recruitment, retention, barriers, and efforts to recruit families reflecting children’s racial and ethnic backgrounds. The Family Partnership Plan requirement takes effect October 1, 2026, with a delayed compliance option if State law changes are needed.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced January 21, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress January 21, 2025