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Introduced June 10, 2025 by Susan Margaret Collins · Last progress June 10, 2025
The bill expands and stabilizes funding and services for runaway and homeless youth—improving safety, health, education, and coordination—while increasing federal costs and administrative requirements that may exclude smaller providers and create privacy and capacity tradeoffs unless funding and safeguards keep pace.
Young people experiencing homelessness will get substantially more predictable, multi-year federal funding (including FY2026 amounts and authorized FY2027–2030 support and 5‑year grants) to sustain shelter, outreach, and transitional programs.
Homeless and runaway youth will gain broader, trauma‑informed, age- and culturally‑appropriate services (shelter, counseling, mental/behavioral health, suicide prevention, trafficking survivor supports, STI testing, SUD education) that improve immediate safety and health outcomes.
Youth served by these programs will have better pathways to stability through required transitional living plans, aftercare, links to vocational/WIOA training, and FAFSA/independent student verification assistance, improving education and employment prospects.
Taxpayers may face materially higher federal spending obligations to fund new authorizations, multi‑year grants, and expanded service requirements, with some provisions using open‑ended language for FY2027–2030.
Smaller, newer, or community-based providers risk being shut out because the bill prioritizes experienced providers and sets minimum per‑grant award levels, reducing local service diversity and innovation.
Expanded reporting, data collection, interagency coordination, certification, and staffing/training requirements will increase administrative and compliance burdens for grantees, diverting resources from direct services unless funding scales up.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Reauthorizes and expands Runaway and Homeless Youth programs through FY2030, sets FY2026 funding and allocation rules, strengthens services and data/reporting, and prioritizes trafficking response and student-aid help.
Reauthorizes and updates the federal Runaway and Homeless Youth programs through FY2030, setting FY2026 funding levels and establishing allocation, grant, service, and reporting rules. It directs most funds to emergency shelter and transitional living programs, strengthens requirements for trauma-informed, culturally and developmentally appropriate services (including trafficking response), sets grant-size floors and ceilings, requires multi-year grants with an appeals process, and adds data and coordination requirements across federal agencies and education systems.