End Institutionalized Abuse Against Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1738
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Americans in foreign countries
Child abuse
Child health
Child safety
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Health
Health facilities
Housing and Community Development
Human rights
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Patients' rights
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Social Welfare
Standards
State employees
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
End Institutionalized Abuse Against Children Act of 2005 - Sets forth protections for the safety and welfare of children in foreign-based or domestic residential treatment facilities or institutions.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) seek the cooperation of appropriate foreign authorities periodically to investigate such institutions in a foreign country operated or managed by U.S. citizens or other private entities organized under U.S. laws (foreign-based institutions); and (2) make rules to protect children who are U.S. citizens or nationals and who are kept in foreign-based institutions for behavior modification. Sets forth civil penalties for U.S. citizens or such private entities who violate such rules.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require country reports on human rights practices to include descriptions of child abuse or human rights violations against any children at foreign-based institutions.
 
Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States to support inspections of child residential treatment facilities. Conditions such grants on State adoption and enforcement of laws with licensing requirements for such institutions, including certain criminal and civil penalties, set forth in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House