I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2775 
To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure protec-
tions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their families. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2019 
Ms. SHALALA (for herself, Ms. HILL of California, Mr. POCAN, Mr. PANETTA, 
Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. MORELLE, Mrs. CRAIG, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. DAVIDS of 
Kansas, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Ms. HAALAND, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. CISNEROS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. NORTON, 
and Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York) 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting LGBTQ 
Youth Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO CAPTA. 
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 
U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) is amended— 
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(1) in section 104 (42 U.S.C. 5105)— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) by redesignating subpara-
graphs (N) and (O) as subparagraphs 
(O) and (P), respectively; 
(II) by inserting after subpara-
graph (M) the following: 
‘‘(N) child abuse and neglect issues facing 
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth 
and families, including providing recommenda-
tions for improving the collection of data at the 
Federal, State, and local levels to better identify 
young people who may be at risk of, or experi-
encing, child abuse or neglect because of their 
sexual orientation or gender identity;’’; 
(III) in subparagraph (O), as so 
redesignated, by striking ‘‘subpara-
graph (O)’’ and inserting ‘‘subpara-
graph (P)’’; and 
(IV) in clause (ix) of subpara-
graph (P), as so redesignated, by in-
serting ‘‘(including sexual orientation 
and gender identity)’’ after ‘‘sex’’; and 
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(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
‘‘paragraph (1)(O)’’ and inserting ‘‘para-
graph (1)(P)’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘or les-
bian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth’’ 
after ‘‘children with disabilities’’; 
(2) 
in 
section 
105(a)(1)(E) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
5106(a)(1)(E)), by inserting ‘‘and lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual, and transgender youth’’ after ‘‘children with 
disabilities’’; 
(3) 
in 
section 
106(d)(1) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
5106a(d)(1)), by inserting ‘‘, disaggregated by de-
mographic characteristics such as age, sex (including 
sexual orientation and gender identity), race, family 
structure, household relationship, school enrollment 
and education attainment, disability, grandparents 
as caregivers, labor force status, work status in pre-
vious year, and income in previous year’’ before the 
period; 
(4) in section 107 (42 U.S.C. 5106c)— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by redesignating paragraphs (3) 
and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respec-
tively; and 
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(ii) by inserting after paragraph (2) 
the following: 
‘‘(3) the assessment and investigation of cases 
involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
youth who are suspected victims of child abuse or 
neglect;’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)(5), by striking ‘‘para-
graphs (1) through (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘para-
graphs (1) through (4)’’; and 
(C) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(G) through (J) as subparagraphs (H) 
through (K), respectively; and 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(F) the following: 
‘‘(G) individuals experienced in working 
with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
youth and families;’’; 
(5) 
in 
section 
201(b)(1)(G) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
5116(b)(1)(G)), by inserting ‘‘(including lesbian, 
gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and families)’’ 
before the semicolon; 
(6) in section 202 (42 U.S.C. 5116a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
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(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘and families with other vulnerable youth, 
including 
lesbian, 
gay, 
bisexual, 
and 
transgender youth’’ before the semicolon; 
and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and public sector and private nonprofit 
sector service providers, and parents with 
disabilities’’ and inserting ‘‘public sector 
and private nonprofit sector service pro-
viders, parents with disabilities, and par-
ents of other vulnerable youth, including 
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
youth’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(E) will integrate its efforts with individ-
uals and organizations experienced in working 
in partnership with families with vulnerable 
youth, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 
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transgender youth, and with the child abuse 
and neglect prevention activities of the State, 
and demonstrate a financial commitment to 
those activities.’’; and 
(7) in section 206(4) (42 U.S.C. 5116f(4)), by 
striking ‘‘and parents with disabilities’’ and inserting 
‘‘parents with disabilities, and families with other 
vulnerable youth, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
and transgender youth’’. 
Æ 
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