US HB1311 | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)
Status: Introduced on March 21 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-04-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from making grants to a state for specified child abuse or neglect prevention and treatment programs until the state's laws provide for a criminal punishment, including a prison term of at least 3,800 days, for any individual who: (1) is a parent or any other individual providing care to or supervision of a child under age 16; and (2) intentionally inflicts on that child any serious bodily injury, or commits an assault upon that child which results in any serious bodily injury or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of any of the child's mental or emotional function. Amends the federal criminal code to subject to penalties for domestic assault by an habital offender any person who commits three or more assaults, acts of sexual abuse, or serious violent felonies against a child of the person or in the person's care.

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Title

Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013

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History

DateChamberAction
2013-04-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2013-04-15HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
2013-03-21HouseReferred to House Judiciary
2013-03-21HouseReferred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-03-21HouseReferred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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