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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3774 

To provide additional funding under the Child Abuse Prevention and 

Treatment Act. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 8 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 7), 2024 

Mr. LUJA ́N (for himself, Mr. CASEY, and Mr. HEINRICH) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To provide additional funding under the Child Abuse 

Prevention and Treatment Act. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Family Strengthening 

5 Infrastructure Act of 2024’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL CAPTA FUNDING. 

7 (a) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS FOR STATE GRANTS TO

8 IMPROVE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.—Section 106 of 

9 the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 

10 5106a) is amended by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(g) ADDITIONAL FUNDING.— 

2 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this section, 

3 in addition to amounts made available under section 

4 112 for such purposes, there are authorized to be 

5 appropriated, and there are appropriated, out of 

6 amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

7 $250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 

8 2034, to remain available until expended. 

9 ‘‘(2) ALLOTMENTS.—Except as otherwise pro10 vided in this section, out of the amounts appro11 priated under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 

12 make allotments to each eligible State and territory 

13 in an amount equal to the sum of— 

14 ‘‘(A) $50,000; and 

15 ‘‘(B) an amount that bears the same rela16 tionship to any amounts appropriated under 

17 paragraph (1) that remain after all such States 

18 and territories have received $50,000, as the 

19 number of children under the age of 18 in the 

20 State or territory bears to the number of such 

21 children in all States and territories that apply 

22 for such a grant. 

23 ‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE STATE.—To be eligible to re24 ceive an allotment under paragraph (2), a State or 

25 territory shall demonstrate in its application for a 


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1 grant under this section that such State or territory, 

2 for purposes of carrying out the programs supported 

3 by such grant, will expend the same amount, or 

4 more, of State or territory funds in the fiscal year 

5 for which the grant is awarded as such State or ter6 ritory expended for such purposes in the previous 

7 fiscal year. 

8 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 

9 terms ‘State’ and ‘territory’ have the meanings given 

10 such terms in subsection (f)(1).’’. 

11 (b) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED

12 GRANTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND

13 NEGLECT.— 

14 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 203 of the Child 

15 Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 

16 5116b) is amended— 

17 (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘amount 

18 appropriated under section 210’’ and inserting 

19 ‘‘amounts appropriated under section 209 and 

20 subsection (d)(1)’’; and 

21 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

22 ‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL FUNDING.— 

23 ‘‘(1) ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION.—To carry 

24 out this title, in addition to amounts made available 

25 under section 209 for such purposes, there are auVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:16 Feb 15, 2024 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3774.IS S3774

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1 thorized to be appropriated, and there are appro2 priated, out of amounts in the Treasury not other3 wise appropriated, $250,000,000 for each of fiscal 

4 years 2025 through 2034, to remain available until 

5 expended. 

6 ‘‘(2) ALLOTMENTS.— 

7 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

8 allot the amount appropriated under paragraph 

9 (1) for a fiscal year and remaining after the 

10 reservation under subsection (a) among eligible 

11 States in the same manner the Secretary allots 

12 amounts appropriated under section 209 pursu13 ant to subsection (b). For purposes of this 

14 paragraph, the allotment formula described in 

15 subsection (b) shall be applied substituting ‘eli16 gible State’ for ‘State’ each place such term ap17 pears in such subsection, and substituting ‘eligi18 ble States’ for ‘States’ each place such term ap19 pears in such subsection. 

20 ‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE STATE.—For purposes of 

21 this paragraph, the term ‘eligible State’ means 

22 a State that demonstrates in its application for 

23 a grant under section 204 that such State, for 

24 purposes of carrying out the programs sup25 ported by a grant under this title, will expend 


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1 the same amount, or more, of State funds in 

2 the fiscal year for which the grant is awarded 

3 as such State expended for such purposes in the 

4 previous fiscal year.’’. 

5 (2) CLARIFICATION.—Section 204(4) of the 

6 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 

7 U.S.C. 5116d(4)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(exclud8 ing any amount received under section 203(d))’’ 

9 after ‘‘received under this title’’. 

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