[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3627 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3627


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 10, 2013

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To require the Attorney General to report on State law penalties for 
             certain child abusers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and again 3 years thereafter, the Attorney General shall publish and 
submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States 
Senate a report on the penalties for violations of laws prohibiting 
child abuse in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and 
each territory of the United States, including whether the laws of that 
State, District, or territory provides for enhanced penalties when the 
victim has suffered serious bodily injury, or permanent or protracted 
loss or impairment of any mental or emotional function.

SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF PREDICATE FOR INCREASED PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN 
              DOMESTIC ASSAULTS.

    Section 117(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``, or against a child of or in the


              

 care of the person committing the domestic assault'' after ``intimate 
partner''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 9, 2013.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.