# 119-hres-771: Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "National Kinship Care Month".

119-hres-771, Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "National Kinship Care Month"., is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37] (D-CA); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hres-771
- Congress: 119
- Title: Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "National Kinship Care Month".
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-09-26
- Sponsor: Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Families
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Kinship care** is the focus of a House resolution supporting designation of September 2025 as National Kinship Care Month and summarizing findings about scope, benefits, and needs. The resolution describes kinship care as full-time care by relatives or family-like caregivers, notes more than 2.5 million children in kinship arrangements including about 131,490 in formal kinship foster care and over 2.7 million in informal kinship care, highlights drivers such as parental death, substance use, disability, and incarceration, documents racial disparities in who provides and receives kinship care, praises kinship benefits like stability and reduced trauma, and calls for better supports including kinship navigator programs. *The resolution cites that kinship caregiving saves taxpayers more than $4.0 billion annually.*

## Cosponsors (5)

- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4] (D-WI), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3] (R-IA), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5] (D-PA), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9] (R-IN), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

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- 119-hres-390: Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges of children in the foster care system and encouraging Congress…
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

## Sources
- [119-hres-771 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/771)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-1329: Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1329)
- [119-hres-390: Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness abo…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-390)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-771 (as of 2026-04-21).