CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT

Amendments

Dept. of HHS: require training and education for school teachers, employees, students, and community about how to prevent, recognize, respond to, and report child sexual abuse in primary and secondary education (S. 734), S3857, S3868 [2AU], S3904, S3993 [3AU]

Bills and resolutions

Children and youth: prevent State child protective services from removing child from custody of parent or legal guardian due to reluctance or refusal to consent to child receiving gender-transition intervention (see H.R. 9507), H9729 [13DE]

Dept. of HHS: conduct research to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth from child abuse and neglect, include such demographics in child abuse reports, and train personnel on meeting needs of such youth (see H.R. 7644), H4713 [3MY]

——— 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 (see S. 5069), S6469 [11OC]

Remarks in House

Dept. of HHS: provide better protections and support for children raised by grandparents or other kinship families outside foster care system due to parental drug or alcohol abuse (H.R. 2747), H7976 [20SE]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of HHS: require training and education for school teachers, employees, students, and community about how to prevent, recognize, respond to, and report child sexual abuse in primary and secondary education (S. 734), S3857 [2AU], S3904 [3AU], S4632 [15SE]

Texts of

S. 734, require training and education for school teachers, employees, students, and community about how to prevent, recognize, respond to, and report child sexual abuse in primary and secondary education, S3904 [3AU]