Military Child and Youth Program Abuse and Neglect Notification Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6313 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6313

 To require military child and youth programs to provide prompt notice 
of alleged or suspected neglect or abuse of children to the parents or 
          guardians of those children, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 25, 2025

 Ms. Tokuda (for herself, Mr. Moore of Utah, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Wittman, 
Ms. Strickland, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bell, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Case, Ms. Norton, 
  Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, Mr. Carson, Ms. Garcia of Texas, and Mr. 
   Davis of North Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require military child and youth programs to provide prompt notice 
of alleged or suspected neglect or abuse of children to the parents or 
          guardians of those children, 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 ``Military Child and Youth Program 
Abuse and Neglect Notification Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AT PROVIDERS OF CHILD 
              CARE SERVICES OR YOUTH PROGRAMS.

    Section 1794 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Notification of Suspected Child Abuse.--(1) The Secretary of 
Defense shall prescribe a policy that requires covered child and youth 
programs to--
            ``(A) not later than 24 hours after a program becomes aware 
        of alleged or suspected abuse or neglect of a child occurring 
        in such program, notify the parents and guardians of such child 
        of such alleged or suspected abuse or neglect; and
            ``(B) not later than 72 hours after a program becomes aware 
        of alleged abuse or neglect of a child occurring in such 
        program, provide notice of such alleged abuse or neglect to--
                    ``(i) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
                Senate and the House of Representatives;
                    ``(ii) if the alleged abuse or neglect occurs in 
                one of the several States, the Senators that represent 
                the State in which the alleged abuse or neglect 
                occurred; and
                    ``(iii) if the alleged abuse or neglect occurs in a 
                location represented by a Member of, or Delegate or 
                Resident Commissioner to, the House of Representatives, 
                the Member of, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, 
                the House of Representatives that represents such 
                location.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `covered child and youth 
program' means a military child development center, a Department of 
Defense youth program, a family home day care, or a provider of child 
care services or youth program services that receives financial 
assistance under section 1798.''.
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