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To require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.
Summary
- Requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain and expand a child sexual abuse prevention program
- Requires the program to identify research and practice gaps and develop evidence-based prevention strategies, policies, and programs
- Requires improved surveillance systems to monitor child sexual abuse, including technology-facilitated abuse, and increased understanding of risk and protective factors
- Requires development of strategies to address the rise in technology-facilitated child sexual abuse
- Authorizes $6,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the program
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] (R-AK)
Actions (2)
- Jun 24, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Jun 24, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 24, 2026
Ms. Alsobrooks (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.
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 “Preventing Risk and Exploitation through Validated Education and Network-based Training Act” or the “PREVENT Act”.
SEC. 2. PROGRAM ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION.
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 317V of such Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-
24) the following:
“SEC. 317W. PROGRAM ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION.
“(a) In General.—The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall maintain and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.
“(b) Program Components.—The program under subsection (a) shall—
“(1) identify gaps in research and practice that are important to address in the efforts of the Federal Government to promote primary prevention of child sexual abuse; and
“(2) address such gaps and improve such research and practice, including by—
“(A) improving surveillance systems and data collection for monitoring child sexual abuse, including technology-facilitated child sexual abuse;
“(B) increasing understanding of risk and protective factors for child sexual abuse perpetration and victimization;
“(C) strengthening existing, and developing new, evidence-based policies, programs, and practices for the primary prevention of child sexual abuse;
“(D) increasing dissemination and implementation of evidence-based strategies for child sexual abuse prevention; and
“(E) increasing understanding of the rise in technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and development of evidence-based strategies to address such abuse.
“(c) Authorization of Appropriations.—To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031.”. <all>
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