[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1889 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1889

    To protect children from neglect and abuse on Federal property.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2011

  Mrs. Boxer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To protect children from neglect and abuse on Federal property.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Children's Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. CHILD ABUSE REPORTING.

    Section 226 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
13031) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``A person'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) Covered professional.--Any person''; and
                    (B) by inserting at the end the following:
            ``(2) Other persons.--In addition to those persons in 
        paragraph (1), any person who, while on Federal land or in a 
        federally operated (or contracted) facility, learns of facts 
        that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an 
        incident of child abuse, shall as soon as possible make a 
        report of the suspected abuse to the agency designated under 
        subsection (d).'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (a)'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (a)(1)''; and
            (3) in subsection (e), by striking ``mandated reporter 
        groups'' and inserting ``covered professionals described in 
        subsection (b)''.
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