[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1778 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1778

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 9, 2013

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 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.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``State'' means each of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and each territory of the 
United States.
    (b) Report Required.--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 Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives a report on the penalties for violations of laws 
prohibiting child abuse in each State, including whether the laws of 
each State provide for enhanced penalties when a victim of child abuse 
suffers 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 offense'' after ``intimate partner''.
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