Child Abuse Death Disclosure Act This bill requires states receiving child welfare grants to report specified information about child deaths from maltreatment. Specifically, multidisciplinary teams from within the child welfare system in each state must make a finding concerning the causes of each child fatality during the annual review period; submit such findings to the Child Death Review Case Reporting System; develop recommendations to prevent future child deaths from maltreatment; submit annual reports with this information to the state’s governor and legislature; and if the number of child deaths in a state exceeds an established threshold, submit a report to the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families. Further, the Children’s Bureau must promulgate rules establishing standardized definitions for states to use in such reporting.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Families
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresChild healthChild safety and welfareCriminal investigation, prosecution, interrogationDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDomestic violence and child abuseGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth information and medical recordsIndian social and development programsMedical educationMental healthSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizationsState and local government operations
Child Abuse Death Disclosure Act
USA117th CongressS-1483| Senate
| Updated: 4/29/2021
Child Abuse Death Disclosure Act This bill requires states receiving child welfare grants to report specified information about child deaths from maltreatment. Specifically, multidisciplinary teams from within the child welfare system in each state must make a finding concerning the causes of each child fatality during the annual review period; submit such findings to the Child Death Review Case Reporting System; develop recommendations to prevent future child deaths from maltreatment; submit annual reports with this information to the state’s governor and legislature; and if the number of child deaths in a state exceeds an established threshold, submit a report to the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families. Further, the Children’s Bureau must promulgate rules establishing standardized definitions for states to use in such reporting.
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresChild healthChild safety and welfareCriminal investigation, prosecution, interrogationDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDomestic violence and child abuseGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth information and medical recordsIndian social and development programsMedical educationMental healthSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizationsState and local government operations