AIDEN (Advancing Integrated Data for Equitable National Child Welfare)

Sponsor: David Schweikert (Republican-AZ)July 21, 2026

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Signed into Law

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Requires federal prisons to survey inmates about their childhood experiences with child welfare services.

This bill would require the U.S. Attorney General to survey people in federal prisons about their childhood experiences with child welfare services. States would also need to do similar surveys for their inmates to get certain federal grants. The goal is to gather information to help improve how child welfare agencies work across the country.

What Would Change

Today, there is no federal requirement for the Attorney General to survey federal inmates about their childhood experiences with child welfare services. States also do not need to conduct such surveys to get Department of Justice grants. If this bill becomes law, the Attorney General would be required to survey all federal inmates, and states would need to do similar surveys for their inmates to qualify for certain federal grants, with all collected data being anonymous.

Key Provisions

Requires the Attorney General to create and give a survey to all people in federal prisons about their childhood experiences with child welfare services.
Requires the survey to collect details like whether the person was aware of child welfare interventions, the reasons for them, the type of intervention (like foster care), and any support services received.
Requires new federal inmates to take the survey during their intake process, starting 90 days after the bill becomes law.
Requires existing federal inmates to take the survey within 180 days after the bill becomes law.
Requires the Attorney General to send annual reports of this anonymous survey data to the Children's Bureau.

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AIDEN (Advancing Integrated Data for Equitable National Child Welfare)

What Would Change

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