Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1311
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pittenger, Robert [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2013-03-21
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses

Child care and development

Child health

Child safety and welfare

Crimes against children

Criminal procedure and sentencing

Domestic violence and child abuse

Health programs administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>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. </p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1311 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 21, 2013 Mr. Pittenger introduced the following bill; which was referred 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 A BILL To prohibit certain grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to States that do not provide for certain minimal terms of imprisonment for certain child abusers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013 . 2. In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not make a grant under section 106 or under title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5101 et seq. ) to a State until the date on which that State’s laws provide for a criminal punishment including a term of imprisonment of not less than 3,800 days for any individual who— (1) is a parent or any other individual providing care to or supervision of a child of less than 16 years of age; and (2) intentionally— (A) inflicts any serious bodily injury (as such term is defined in section 1365(h)(3) of title 18, United States Code) on that child; or (B) commits an assault upon that child which results in— (i) any serious bodily injury (as such term is defined in section 1365(h)(3) of title 18, United States Code) to the child; or (ii) permanent or protracted loss or impairment of any mental or emotional function of the child. 3. Expansion of predicate for increased penalties for certain domestic assaults Section 117(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting , or against the child of or in the care of the person committing the domestic assault after intimate partner . 4. Effective date (a) In general The provisions of this Act, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), shall take effect beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Exception Section 2 of this Act shall take effect beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act.