Hospital Adoption Education Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Husted, Jon [R-OH]
Introduced
Summary
Creates standardized adoption-sensitivity education and training for hospitals and birthing centers. This bill would direct HHS to develop and nationally share accessible resources and offer professional development to improve how care providers interact with prospective birth mothers and adoptive families.
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- Families: Prospective birth mothers and adoptive families would see clearer, accessible information and more sensitive care at hospitals through digital and optional print resources posted on the Administration for Children and Families website.
- Care providers and hospitals: Hospitals and birthing centers would receive consultation on standardized policies and professional development. HHS must evaluate implementation and report to Congress within 3 years on how many hospitals adopt programs and how many providers receive training.
- Nonprofit education organizations: Grants or contracts up to 3 fiscal years would fund health care–based adoption education nonprofits that partner with hospitals and communities. Recipients must not be child-placing agencies, may not provide or refer abortions, must have no vested interest in pregnancy outcomes, and must submit annual activity reports.
- HHS and ACF: Resource development must involve a committee of adoption experts, maternal health experts, licensed social workers, hospital case managers, and adoption attorneys, and HHS will coordinate these activities with existing adoption-related programs.
*Implementation would use existing Administration for Children and Families funds and does not authorize new appropriations.*
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Hospital training and adoption resources
If enacted, HHS would develop and share adoption‑sensitive resources for hospital and birthing center staff. The resources would include digital materials and may include print materials. HHS would keep a public ACF web page with these resources. HHS would provide training and professional development to care providers directly or through grants or contracts. Grants could go to health‑care‑based nonprofit education groups for up to 3 fiscal years. Grantees could not be child‑placing agencies, could not provide or refer for abortions, and must not favor any pregnancy outcome. Recipients would submit annual activity reports. HHS would evaluate the work and report to Congress within 3 years with counts of hospitals and birthing centers adopting programs and of care providers trained. The program would be carried out using amounts already available to the Administration for Children and Families.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Husted, Jon [R-OH]
OH • R
Cosponsors
Markwayne Mullin
OK • R
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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