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HR 6283
Recent Bills/HR 6283

FOSTER Act

IntroducedNovember 21, 2025
Introduced8 months ago
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Why This Matters

The FOSTER Act expands opioid-related grants under the 21st Century Cures Act to help state and local agencies provide services for children and caregivers affected by opioid abuse. It also defines kinship care families and caregivers and authorizes funding through 2033.

Who this affects
State and local agencies · Foster parents · Adoptive parents · Kinship caregivers
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1Adds a new grant category for opioid abuse prevention and treatment services for children, caregivers, kinship care families, and kinship caregivers under the 21st Century Cures Act.
  2. 2Directs these grants to fund workforce recruitment and training, health care services, and foster and adoptive parent recruitment and training.
  3. 3Defines “kinship care family” as a household with a relative caregiver and “kinship caregiver” as a relative living with and caring for a child when a parent is unable or unwilling to do so.
  4. 4Authorizes $255 million per year for these grants for fiscal years 2028 through 2033.
  5. 5Requires at least 1 percent of each year’s grant funding to be set aside for the new services for children and caregivers.
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IntroducedCurrentNov 21, 2025

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The President

Donald Trump
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