[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8396 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8396

   To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require 
    training and education to teachers and other school employees, 
 students, and the community about how to prevent, recognize, respond 
 to, and report child sexual abuse in primary and secondary education.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2020

 Ms. Wild (for herself, Mr. McCaul, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
  Hastings, and Mr. Wright) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require 
    training and education to teachers and other school employees, 
 students, and the community about how to prevent, recognize, respond 
 to, and report child sexual abuse in primary and secondary education.

    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 ``Jenna Quinn Law''.

SEC. 2. CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS FIELD INITIATED GRANTS.

    Section 105(a) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 
U.S.C. 5106(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) Child sexual abuse awareness field initiated 
        grants.--The Secretary may award grants under this subsection 
        to entities, for periods of up to 5 years, in support of field-
        initiated innovation projects that advance, establish, or 
        implement innovative evidence-based or evidence-informed child 
        sexual abuse awareness and prevention programs by--
                    ``(A) improving student awareness of child sexual 
                abuse, including how to recognize, prevent, and safely 
                report child sexual abuse;
                    ``(B) training teachers, school employees, and 
                other mandatory reporters and adults who work with 
                children in a professional or volunteer capacity, 
                including with respect to recognizing child sexual 
                abuse and safely reporting child sexual abuse; or
                    ``(C) providing information to parents and 
                guardians of students about child sexual abuse 
                awareness and prevention, including how to prevent, 
                recognize, respond to, and report child sexual abuse 
                and how to discuss child sexual abuse with a child.''.
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