CHILD Act of 2025, the official text

119 S1528 ES: Comprehensive Health and Integrity in Licensing and Documentation Act of 2025
U.S. Senate
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119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 1528 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to ensure that businesses and organizations that work with vulnerable populations are able to request background checks for their contractors who work with those populations, as well as for individuals that the businesses or organizations license or certify to provide care for those populations. 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Comprehensive Health and Integrity in Licensing and Documentation Act of 2025 or the CHILD Act of 2025 .
2. Defining covered individual for purposes of background checks under the National Child Protection Act of 1993
Section 5(9)(B) of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 ( 34 U.S.C. 40104(9)(B) ) is amended—
(1) in clause (i)—
(A) by inserting , contracts with, after is employed by ;
(B) by inserting , contract with, after be employed by ; and
(C) by striking or at the end;
(2) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii);
(3) by inserting after clause (i) the following:
(ii) is employed by or volunteers with, or seeks to be employed by or volunteer with, an entity that is under contract with a qualified entity;
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(4) in clause (iii), as so redesignated, by adding or at the end; and
(5) by adding at the end the following:
(iv) is licensed or certified, or seeks to be licensed or certified, by a qualified entity;
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Passed the Senate April 21, 2026. Secretary