Requires states to write family partnership plans for recruiting, licensing, and keeping foster and adoptive families, and requires annual reporting on foster family capacity and children placed in congregate care.

• Requires each state's plan to be developed with birth, kinship, foster and adoptive families, service providers, and youth with foster care experience.
• Requires states to report at least annually on licensed foster family capacity and on the number and characteristics of children placed in congregate care in and out of state.
• Requires plans to include annual summaries of parent and youth feedback and an analysis of barriers to recruiting families that reflect the racial and ethnic backgrounds of children in foster care.
• Requires the annual child welfare outcomes report to Congress, starting with fiscal year 2025, to include state-by-state data on foster and adoptive families.
• Sets the state plan requirements to take effect October 1, 2026, with a possible delay for states that need legislation to comply.

• Ways and Means Committee (House)
• Finance Committee (Senate)

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