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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-196
NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PROTECTION ACT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 663]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 663) to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family
Violence Prevention Act, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Native American Child Protection Act.
SEC. 2. INDIAN CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT AMENDMENTS.
The Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act (25 U.S.C. 3202
et seq.) is amended as follows:
(1) By amending section 403(3)(A) (25 U.S.C. 3202(3)(A)) to read as follows:
(A) in any case in which-
(i)(I) a child is dead or exhibits evidence of skin bruising, bleeding,
malnutrition, failure to thrive, burns, fracture of any bone, subdural
hematoma, soft tissue swelling; and
(II) such condition is not justifiably explained or may not be the
product of an accidental occurrence; or
(ii) a child is subjected to sexual assault, sexual molestation, sexual
exploitation, sexual contact, or prostitution; and.
(2) In section 409 (25 U.S.C. 3208)-
(A) in subsection (a)-
(i) by striking The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting
through the Service and in cooperation with the Bureau and inserting
The Service, in cooperation with the Bureau; and
(ii) by striking sexual abuse and inserting abuse or neglect;
(B) in subsection (b) through the end of the section, by striking Secretary
of Health and Human Services each place it appears and inserting Serv-
ice;
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