Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013

Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from making grants to a state for specified child abuse or neglect prevention and treatment programs until the state's laws provide for a criminal punishment, including a prison term of at least 3,800 days, for any individual who: (1) is a parent or any other individual providing care to or supervision of a child under age 16; and (2) intentionally inflicts on that child any serious bodily injury, or commits an assault upon that child which results in any serious bodily injury or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of any of the child's mental or emotional function.

Amends the federal criminal code to subject to penalties for domestic assault by an habital offender any person who commits three or more assaults, acts of sexual abuse, or serious violent felonies against a child of the person or in the person's care.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1311 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1311

    To prohibit certain grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and 
 Treatment Act to States that do not provide for certain minimal terms 
   of imprisonment for certain child abusers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2013

Mr. Pittenger introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit certain grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and 
 Treatment Act to States that do not provide for certain minimal terms 
   of imprisonment for certain child abusers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not make a grant 
under section 106 or under title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and 
Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) to a State until the date on 
which that State's laws provide for a criminal punishment including a 
term of imprisonment of not less than 3,800 days for any individual 
who--
            (1) is a parent or any other individual providing care to 
        or supervision of a child of less than 16 years of age; and
            (2) intentionally--
                    (A) inflicts any serious bodily injury (as such 
                term is defined in section 1365(h)(3) of title 18, 
                United States Code) on that child; or
                    (B) commits an assault upon that child which 
                results in--
                            (i) any serious bodily injury (as such term 
                        is defined in section 1365(h)(3) of title 18, 
                        United States Code) to the child; or
                            (ii) permanent or protracted loss or 
                        impairment of any mental or emotional function 
                        of the child.

SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF PREDICATE FOR INCREASED PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN 
              DOMESTIC ASSAULTS.

    Section 117(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``, or against the child of or in the care of the person 
committing the domestic assault'' after ``intimate partner''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The provisions of this Act, except as otherwise 
provided in subsection (b), shall take effect beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    (b) Exception.--Section 2 of this Act shall take effect beginning 
on the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
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