Legislation· Dec 2024Sponsored by Jeff Merkley (D)
Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act
Requires a 10-year federal study of abuse and deaths in youth residential programs.
Tradeoff
Orders a federal study and recommendations for youth residential programs, not new rules for those programs. Reports are due within three years, then every two years for ten years.
What's in it
The Senate passed this by on December 11, 2024. The House passed it 373-33 on December 18, 2024. It became law.
Senate
Introduced
(Apr 27, 2023)
Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions(Apr 27, 2023)
Senate · Amended
Senator Merkley's
Agreed to by (S.Amdt. 3316 · Dec 11, 2024)
Drops the Federal Work Group on Youth Residential Programs and instead expands the National Academies study with more topics and reports every two years for ten years.
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Dec 11, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Taken away from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Discharged(Dec 11, 2024)
House
Received from the Senate
Received(Dec 12, 2024)
House
On Motion to and Pass
Passed(Roll #512 · Dec 18, 2024)
373 yeanay 33House
Sent to the President
(Dec 23, 2024)
White House · Signature
Signed
Joe Biden (D)
Enacted
Became law(Dec 23, 2024)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Angus S., Jr. King (I-ME)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
Final passage· Dec 18, 2024· 118th Congress · 2023–2025