To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to ensure that businesses and organizations that work with vulnerable populations are able to request background checks for their contractors who work with those populations, as well as for individuals that the businesses or organizations license or certify to provide care for those populations.

Bill: 119-hr-3100
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Fry, Russell [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2025-04-30
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare

Contracts and agency

Criminal justice information and records

Employee hiring

Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Latest action: action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3100 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 30, 2025 Mr. Fry (for himself and Mr. Moskowitz ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to ensure that businesses and organizations that work with vulnerable populations are able to request background checks for their contractors who work with those populations, as well as for individuals that the businesses or organizations license or certify to provide care for those populations.

1. Defining covered individual for purposes of background checks under the National Child Protection Act of 1993 Section 5(9)(B) of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 ( 34 U.S.C. 40104(9)(B) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i)— (A) by inserting , contracts with, after is employed by ; (B) by inserting , contract with, after be employed by ; and (C) by striking or at the end; (2) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii); (3) by inserting after clause (i) the following: (ii) is employed by or volunteers with, or seeks to be employed by or volunteer with, an entity that is under contract with a qualified entity; ; (4) in clause (iii), as so redesignated, by adding or at the end; and (5) by adding at the end the following: (iv) is licensed or certified, or seeks to be licensed or certified, by a qualified entity; .