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119th Congress(2025-2026)
CHILD Act of 2025
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S. 1528 (Introduced-in-Senate)


119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1528


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.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 30, 2025

Mr. Durbin (for himself and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Comprehensive Health and Integrity in Licensing and Documentation Act of 2025” or the “CHILD Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. 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;”.