STRONGER CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT

Letters

Provisions: Katherine McGuire, American Psychological Association Services, Inc., H3994 [20MY]

——— Kyle E. Yasuda, American Academy of Pediatrics, H3993 [20MY]

——— Ruth J. Friedman, National Child Abuse Coalition, H3993 [20MY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of HHS: conduct study on effects of forced child marriage in States that have not prevented practice, H3990 [20MY]

——— conduct study to identify how parental substance abuse affects adoption outcomes, H3990 [20MY]

——— ensure child protective services systems do not permit separation of children from parents on the basis of poverty, H3991, H3992 [20MY]

——— ensure State plans for safe care of infants exposed to substances in utero do not unfairly target pregnant women who need to remain on certain medications, H3990 [20MY]

——— explore effective practices to improve early detection and management of injuries indicative of potential abuse in infants in order to prevent future cases of child abuse and related fatalities, H3989 [20MY]

——— improve recruitment and retention of child welfare workers, H3990, H3991 [20MY]

——— include an act of unregulated custody transfer or ‘‘rehoming’’ in the definition of child abuse and neglect, H3992 [20MY]

——— require mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect to law enforcement or State child protective services agencies and provide training on what constitutes child abuse or neglect, H3992 [20MY]

Enact (H.R. 2480), H3978–H3994, H3998 [20MY], E637 [21MY]

National Child Abuse Hotline: establish, H3991 [20MY]

Reports filed

Provisions: Committee on Education and Labor (House) (H.R. 2480) (H. Rept. 116–74), H4009 [20MY]

Texts of

H.R. 2480, provisions, H3978–H3988 [20MY]