House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Hidden Foster Care Transparency Act
Official title: To require States to measure and publicly report on the separation of children from parents by hidden foster care arrangements, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Nathaniel Moran R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 19, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 19, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5507.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 154, September 19, 2025, Page H4489):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5507, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5507
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 15, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nathaniel Moran.
- H.R. 5349 (119th) TAS Act
- H.R. 6506 (119th) Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
- H.R. 1724 (119th) No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act
- H.R. 9644 (119th) Medicare Advantage MLR Transparency Act
- H.R. 10582 (119th) Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act
- H.R. 3781 (119th) Visa Overstays Penalties Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.