S. 4926Respect for Child Survivors Act

1 recorded action238 of these members are on the 2026 ballotWhat the measure does Read on Congress.gov

Sponsor: John Cornyn [R-TX]
Cosponsors: 3 · 2 Democrats · 1 Republican
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Committee: Judiciary Committee
Latest action: Jan 5, 2023 · Became Public Law No: 117-354.

IntroducedSep 22, 2022
Passed the SenateDec 13, 2022
Passed the HouseDec 21, 2022
Sent to the PresidentDec 28, 2022
Became lawJan 5, 2023

What the measure doesCRS summary

Respect for Child Survivors Act

This act requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to use a multidisciplinary team with investigations of child abuse and related crimes. The act also reauthorizes grants for children's advocacy centers (CACs). CACs use a multidisciplinary response to coordinate the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases.

(Sec. 2) This section requires the FBI to use a multidisciplinary team with any investigation of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking. The FBI must also use a trained child adolescent forensic interviewer in these investigations. These requirements do not apply if a multidisciplinary team or an interviewer is unavailable or is otherwise inconsistent with applicable federal law.

In implementing these requirements, the FBI must use and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams based at CACs.

(Sec. 3) This section modifies and reauthorizes through FY2028 grants for regional and local CACs, as well as for technical assistance and training. Grants for CACs are administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice.

It adds a finding stating that a key to a child victim healing from abuse is access to supportive and healthy families and communities.

The section modifies grant provisions for regional CACs, including by

directing the OJJDP to maintain (in addition to establish) regional CACs; adding, as a new program objective, the provision of technical assistance, training, coordination, and organizational capacity support for state chapters; and requiring the OJJDP to consider, as an additional selection criteria, proposals for regional CACs that best result in supporting state chapters. The section also modifies grant provisions for local CACs, including by adding as new grant purposes (1) the establishment and maintenance of a network of care for child abuse victims, and (2) the development and dissemination of practice standards for care and best practices in program evaluation.

Finally, the section modifies the criteria that the OJJDP may use to evaluate local CAC programs.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 4926 as public Law on Jan 5, 2023. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

How every member votedHouse roll call 534

House Dec 21, 2022

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Respect for Child Survivors Act

Passed · Two-thirds required

385 Yea 28 Nay 17 not voting

Crossed both parties 28 of 413 voting members broke with their own party: 28 Republicans.

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Democratic217 members

Republican213 members

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Cosponsors3 · 2 Democrats · 1 Republican

Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 4926 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.

DAmy Klobuchar [D-MN]Original

RLindsey Graham [R-SC]Original

DChristopher A. Coons [D-DE]Original2026 profile

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S. 4926Respect for Child Survivors Act

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 534

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors3 · 2 Democrats · 1 Republican

S. 4926Respect for Child Survivors Act

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 534

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors3 · 2 Democrats · 1 Republican

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