House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed House
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Official title: 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.
Sponsor: Rep. Randy Feenstra R-IAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 21, 2025
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseMar 4, 2025 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 5, 2025 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 579.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FEENSTRA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 12, January 21, 2025, Page H258):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 579, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/579
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 11, 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 11, 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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Randy Feenstra.
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.