U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HR1587: Expressing support for the designation of September 2026 as "National Kinship Care Month".
Status: In committee, September 28, 2026
What the bill says
From the introduced text, September 28, 2026:
IV 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1587 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2026 Ms. Kamlager-Dove submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of September 2026 as National Kinship Care Month . Whereas, in September 2026, National Kinship Care Month is observed; Whereas kinship care is the full-time care, nurturing, and protection of children by grandparents, siblings, members of Tribes, godparents, stepparents, or fictive kin caregivers who have a family relationship to the over 2,800,000 children living in a kinship care arrangement; Whereas death, incarceration, disability, parental substance use, military deployment, and incarceration are a few reasons causing grandparents, siblings, members of Tribes, godparents, stepparents, or fictive kin caregivers to step forward to raise children they did not expect nor plan to raise; Whereas nearly one-third (31 percent) of all children in out-of-home care in the United States are placed with relatives without a parent in the home, and there is considerable variation in that percentage across States, ranging from a low of 5 percent to a high of 46 percent in kinship care; Whereas, nationally, more than 133,405 children in foster care are formally placed in kinship foster care and more than 2,667,000 additional children are supported by kin caregivers outside of the foster …
Sponsors
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) · primary sponsor
- Zachary Nunn (R, 3)
- Gwen Moore (D, HD-004)
Latest actions
- : Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- : Submitted in House
Subjects: Families
Common questions
- What is HR1587?
- HR1587 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): Expressing support for the designation of September 2026 as "National Kinship Care Month".
- What is the status of HR1587?
- In committee as of September 28, 2026. Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (September 28, 2026).
- Who sponsored HR1587?
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D), with 2 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HR1587?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-res/1587
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