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Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System
The Children and Families Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on August 12, 2026. It took effect on August 12, 2026.
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What the agency says
This document withdraws a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register on January 11, 2008. The proposed rule would have amended the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) regulations at 45 CFR 1355.40 and the appendices to Part 1355 to modify the requirements for States to collect and report data to ACF on children in out-of-home care and in subsidized adoption or guardianship arrangements with the State. This document also withdraws the provision of the 2008 proposed rule that implemented the AFCARS penalty requirements of the Adoption Promotion Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-145).
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-16414
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; withdrawal
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Children and Families Administration
- Published
- August 12, 2026
- Takes effect
- August 12, 2026
- Dates
- The proposed rule published January 11, 2008 (73 FR 2082) is withdrawn effective August 12, 2026.
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0970-AC23
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 45 CFR 1356
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 2
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