Bill > HR6667

This bill aims to improve the ability of the Department of Defense (DoD) to effectively prevent, track, and respond to military-connected child abuse. The key provisions include expanding the DoD's centralized database to track all incidents of child abuse, ensuring coordination between Family Advocacy Programs and military law enforcement organizations, clarifying guidance on reporting child abuse allegations, expanding the membership of Incident Determination Committees, providing comprehensive information to families of child abuse victims, clarifying the circumstances for removing children from potentially unsafe homes, ensuring timely access to certified pediatric sexual assault forensic examiners, improving communication between military criminal investigative organizations and U.S. Attorneys, and seeking to develop a memorandum of understanding with the National Children's Alliance to make children's advocacy center services available on all military installations.

Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6667/all-info