Bill Details
HR.712 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced Date
2025-01-23
Policy Area
Families
Committees
View committees (1)
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (9)
- Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-California-26]
- Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-Michigan-6]
- Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-New Hampshire-1]
- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-California-9]
- Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-Washington-1]
- Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-California-4]
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-Colorado-2]
- Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-New Jersey-5]
- Rep. Crow, Jason [D-Colorado-6]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to include information about animal abuse in the national clearinghouse that tracks child abuse and neglect. The goal is to help connect cases of child abuse with cases where animals are also being harmed, so agencies may spot warning signs sooner and better understand patterns of abuse.
- It changes the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which is the main law behind the national child abuse information clearinghouse.
- The new information would cover cases linked to animal abuse, not just child abuse and neglect.
- The bill defines animal abuse broadly to include any act or failure to act that causes unnecessary pain, suffering, or death to an animal.
- This would apply even if the conduct is not necessarily a violation of state or local animal cruelty laws.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 712 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 712
To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to direct the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to include data on animal abuse
in the national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse
and neglect.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 23, 2025
Mr. Van Drew (for himself and Ms. Brownley) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
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A BILL
To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to direct the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to include data on animal abuse
in the national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse
and neglect.
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 ``Child and Animal Abuse Detection and
Reporting Act''.
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF DATA ON ANIMAL ABUSE IN NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR
INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.
Section 103(b)(6) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
(42 U.S.C. 5104(b)(6)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (C), by adding ``and'' at the end; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(D) the incidence of any such cases related to
animal abuse (including any act or failure to act,
which results in undue pain, suffering, or death to any
animal, without regard to whether such act or failure
to act is a violation of State or local cruelty
law);''.
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