{"format":1,"id":"117-s-4926","congress":117,"number":"S. 4926","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act","title_source":"Short Titles as Enacted","official_title":"A bill to amend chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, to require appropriate use of multidisciplinary teams for investigations of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A bill to amend chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, to require appropriate use of multidisciplinary teams for investigations of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation."},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"type":"Short Titles as Enacted","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"type":"Short Titles as Passed House","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 117-354","introduced":"2022-09-22","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-12-21","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h534","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Respect for Child Survivors Act","result":"Passed","yea":385,"nay":28,"present":0,"not_voting":17,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll534.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2022-12-13","vote":null,"how":"unanimous_consent","words":"Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7146-7147)"}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2023-01-05"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 117-354.","date":"2023-01-05"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-01-05","stage":"Public Law","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Respect for Child Survivors Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This act requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to use a multidisciplinary team with investigations of child abuse and related crimes. The act also reauthorizes grants for children's advocacy centers (CACs). CACs use a multidisciplinary response to coordinate the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases."},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 2) This section requires the FBI to use a multidisciplinary team with any investigation of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking. The FBI must also use a trained child adolescent forensic interviewer in these investigations. These requirements do not apply if a multidisciplinary team or an interviewer is unavailable or is otherwise inconsistent with applicable federal law."},{"k":"p","t":"In implementing these requirements, the FBI must use and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams based at CACs."},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 3) This section modifies and reauthorizes through FY2028 grants for regional and local CACs, as well as for technical assistance and training. Grants for CACs are administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice."},{"k":"p","t":"It adds a finding stating that a key to a child victim healing from abuse is access to supportive and healthy families and communities."},{"k":"p","t":"The section modifies grant provisions for regional CACs, including by"},{"k":"li","t":"directing the OJJDP to maintain (in addition to establish) regional CACs;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"adding, as a new program objective, the provision of technical assistance, training, coordination, and organizational capacity support for state chapters; and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"requiring the OJJDP to consider, as an additional selection criteria, proposals for regional CACs that best result in supporting state chapters.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"The section also modifies grant provisions for local CACs, including by adding as new grant purposes (1) the establishment and maintenance of a network of care for child abuse victims, and (2) the development and dissemination of practice standards for care and best practices in program evaluation."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the section modifies the criteria that the OJJDP may use to evaluate local CAC programs."}],"words":329},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use multidisciplinary teams in investigations of child sexual exploitation or abuse, child sexual abuse material, and child trafficking, and amends the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 as to children's advocacy center grants and their funding.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#idB5BCC80DD6F34BC399584CA04F038D89:~:text=2.%20Multidisciplinary%20teams"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#id3DC912D336F942DBB65665AA3AC2D780:~:text=3.%20Improving%20investigation%20and%20prosecution%20of%20child"}]},"core_areas":["FBI use of multidisciplinary teams in child abuse and trafficking investigations","Children's advocacy center grants under the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the FBI Director to use a multidisciplinary team, and a trained child adolescent forensic interviewer, in each FBI investigation of child sexual exploitation or abuse, child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking, unless unavailable or otherwise inconsistent with applicable Federal law.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#idB5BCC80DD6F34BC399584CA04F038D89:~:text=2.%20Multidisciplinary%20teams"}},{"text":"Requires the FBI Director to use and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams based at children's advocacy centers as necessary to carry out these requirements.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#idB5BCC80DD6F34BC399584CA04F038D89:~:text=2.%20Multidisciplinary%20teams"}},{"text":"Requires the FBI Director to submit an annual report to the Attorney General identifying victim interviews that took place without a multidisciplinary approach or a trained forensic interviewer, and describing the exigent circumstances.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#idB5BCC80DD6F34BC399584CA04F038D89:~:text=2.%20Multidisciplinary%20teams"}},{"text":"Grants children's advocacy center personnel on a covered investigation access to case information needed for their role, excluding classified information, confidential informant identities, and certain other investigative information.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#idB5BCC80DD6F34BC399584CA04F038D89:~:text=2.%20Multidisciplinary%20teams"}},{"text":"Amends the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 to add a finding, to add maintenance of regional children's advocacy centers to the existing establishment role, and to add technical assistance, training, coordination and organizational capacity support for State chapters.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4926/text/enr#id3DC912D336F942DBB65665AA3AC2D780:~:text=3.%20Improving%20investigation%20and%20prosecution%20of%20child"}},{"text":"Replaces the authorization of appropriations in the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 with $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2028 to carry out sections 213, 214, and 214A.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 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S. 4926, 117th Congress: Respect for Child Survivors Act. House: 385 Yea, 28 Nay. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Became law, 5 Jan 2023."}}