Fostering the Future Act

Sponsored by Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) · 6 active : 4 Republicans, 2 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedMay 19, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Foster Youth Housing Opportunity Act

This bill expands states' permissible uses of federal funds under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood (Chafee program) to include supportive housing services.

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The Chafee program is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Children's Bureau and provides funding to support youth and young adults who are in, or were formerly in, foster care with their transition to adulthood. The program is funded through formula grants awarded to child welfare agencies in states, certain territories, and participating tribes.

The bill allows states to use such funds to provide supportive services (e.g., financial counseling) for youth up to the age of 26 who are seeking to obtain or retain housing and who have experienced foster care and receive assistance under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 8 Family Unification Program.

Additionally, HHS and HUD must jointly develop and issue guidance to state public child welfare agencies and public housing authorities to improve alignment and coordination of housing supportive services.

HHS, in consultation with HUD, also must report information about foster youth who are receiving federal housing assistance and the outcomes for such youth, including the extent to which such youth are able to access stable housing and the rates of homelessness. The report must include findings from any evaluations of state programs and recommendations for improving coordination between public child welfare agencies and federal housing programs.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Financial Services · HouseDischarged from · Referred to
House Committee on Ways and Means · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Finance · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

44Swing 70–100
201Middle 30–70
186Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the House. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 1.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

H.R. 7726 · Jun 3, 2026 · Roll call 558On PassageNo Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6945 · Jan 21, 2026 · Roll call 397On PassageSupporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
S. 1351 · Dec 18, 2024 · Roll call 1230On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassStop Institutional Child Abuse Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

6 active

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Gwen Moore (D-WI-4)
Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7)
David Schweikert (R-AZ-1)
Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16)
Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.