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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1379 

To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their families. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 25, 2021 

Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia (for himself, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. KILMER, Mrs. DEMINGS, Mrs. 

NAPOLITANO, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. STANTON, Mr. 

NEAL, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, 

Ms. JACOBS of California, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MOULTON, 

Mr. JONES, Mr. MORELLE, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SCANLON, 

Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Mr. SUOZZI, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. 

CLARKE of New York, Mr. POCAN, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. 

GRIJALVA, Mr. SOTO, Mr. TRONE, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. 

JACKSON LEE, and Ms. ESHOO) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act 

to ensure protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 

transgender youth and their families. 

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 ‘‘Protecting LGBTQ 

5 Youth Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO CAPTA. 

2 The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 

3 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) is amended— 

4 (1) in section 104 (42 U.S.C. 5105)— 

5 (A) in subsection (a)— 

6 (i) in paragraph (1)— 

7 (I) by redesignating subpara8 graphs (N) and (O) as subparagraphs 

9 (O) and (P), respectively; 

10 (II) by inserting after subpara11 graph (M) the following: 

12 ‘‘(N) child abuse and neglect issues facing 

13 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth 

14 and families, including providing recommenda15 tions for improving the collection of data at the 

16 Federal, State, and local levels to better identify 

17 young people who may be at risk of, or experi18 encing, child abuse or neglect because of their 

19 sexual orientation or gender identity;’’; 

20 (III) in subparagraph (O), as so 

21 redesignated, by striking ‘‘subpara22 graph (O)’’ and inserting ‘‘subpara23 graph (P)’’; and 

24 (IV) in clause (ix) of subpara25 graph (P), as so redesignated, by inVerDate Sep 11 2014 20:53 Mar 23, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1379.IH H1379

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1 serting ‘‘(including sexual orientation 

2 and gender identity)’’ after ‘‘sex’’; and 

3 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 

4 ‘‘paragraph (1)(O)’’ and inserting ‘‘para5 graph (1)(P)’’; and 

6 (B) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘or les7 bian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth’’ 

8 after ‘‘children with disabilities’’; 

9 (2) in section 105(a)(1)(E) (42 U.S.C. 

10 5106(a)(1)(E)), by inserting ‘‘and lesbian, gay, bi11 sexual, and transgender youth’’ after ‘‘children with 

12 disabilities’’; 

13 (3) in section 106(d)(1) (42 U.S.C. 

14 5106a(d)(1)), by inserting ‘‘, disaggregated by de15 mographic characteristics such as age, sex (including 

16 sexual orientation and gender identity), race, family 

17 structure, household relationship, school enrollment 

18 and education attainment, disability, grandparents 

19 as caregivers, labor force status, work status in pre20 vious year, and income in previous year’’ before the 

21 period; 

22 (4) in section 107 (42 U.S.C. 5106c)— 

23 (A) in subsection (a)— 


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1 (i) by redesignating paragraphs (3) 

2 and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respec3 tively; and 

4 (ii) by inserting after paragraph (2) 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘(3) the assessment and investigation of cases 

7 involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 

8 youth who are suspected victims of child abuse or 

9 neglect;’’; 

10 (B) in subsection (b)(5), by striking ‘‘para11 graphs (1) through (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘para12 graphs (1) through (4)’’; and 

13 (C) in subsection (c)(1)— 

14 (i) by redesignating subparagraphs 

15 (G) through (J) as subparagraphs (H) 

16 through (K), respectively; and 

17 (ii) by inserting after subparagraph 

18 (F) the following: 

19 ‘‘(G) individuals experienced in working 

20 with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 

21 youth and families;’’; 

22 (5) in section 201(b)(1)(G) (42 U.S.C. 

23 5116(b)(1)(G)), by inserting ‘‘(including lesbian, 

24 gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and families)’’ 

25 before the semicolon; 


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1 (6) in section 202 (42 U.S.C. 5116a)— 

2 (A) in paragraph (2)— 

3 (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 

4 ‘‘and families with other vulnerable youth, 

5 including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 

6 transgender youth’’ before the semicolon; 

7 and 

8 (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

9 ‘‘and public sector and private nonprofit 

10 sector service providers, and parents with 

11 disabilities’’ and inserting ‘‘public sector 

12 and private nonprofit sector service pro13 viders, parents with disabilities, and par14 ents of other vulnerable youth, including 

15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 

16 youth’’; and 

17 (B) in paragraph (3)— 

18 (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘; 

19 and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 

20 (ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 

21 the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

22 (iii) by adding at the end the fol23 lowing: 

24 ‘‘(E) will integrate its efforts with individ25 uals and organizations experienced in working 


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1 in partnership with families with vulnerable 

2 youth, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 

3 transgender youth, and with the child abuse 

4 and neglect prevention activities of the State, 

5 and demonstrate a financial commitment to 

6 those activities.’’; and 

7 (7) in section 206(4) (42 U.S.C. 5116f(4)), by 

8 striking ‘‘and parents with disabilities’’ and inserting 

9 ‘‘parents with disabilities, and families with other 

10 vulnerable youth, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, 

11 and transgender youth’’. 

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