Sec. 107. Miscellaneous requirements
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Section 108 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5106d ) is amended— in subsection (b), by inserting Indian tribes, and tribal organizations, after States, ; by redesignating subsections
(c)through
(e)as subsections
(d)through (f), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(b)the following: Not later than 24 months after the date of the enactment of the Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, each State task force established under section 107(c) and expanded as described in paragraph
(2)shall study and make recommendations on the following, with a focus on preventing systemic child sexual abuse: How to detect systemic child sexual abuse that occurs in an organization. How to prevent child sexual abuse and systemic child sexual abuse from occurring in organizations, which shall include recommendations to improve— practices and policies for the education of parents, caregivers, and victims, and age appropriate education of children, about risk factors or signs of potential child sexual abuse; and the efficacy of applicable State laws and the role such laws play in deterring or preventing incidences of child sexual abuse. The feasibility of making available the disposition of a perpetrator within an organization to— the child alleging sexual abuse or the child’s family; or an adult who was a child at the time of the sexual abuse claim in question or the adult’s family. For purposes of this subsection, a State task force shall include— the members of the State task force described in section 107(c) for the State; and the following: Family court judges. Individuals from religious organizations. Individuals from youth-serving organizations, including youth athletics organizations. Not later than 6 months after a State task force makes recommendations under paragraph (1), the State maintaining such State task force shall— make public the recommendations of such report; report to the Secretary on the status of adopting such recommendations; and in a case in which the State declines to adopt a particular recommendation, make public the explanation for such declination. For purposes of this subsection— the terms child sexual abuse and sexual abuse shall not be limited to an act or a failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker; the term organization means any entity that serves children; and the term systemic child sexual abuse means— a pattern of informal or formal policy or de facto policy to not follow State and local requirements to report instances of child sexual abuse in violation of State and local mandatory reporting laws or policy; or a pattern of assisting individual perpetrators in maintaining their careers despite substantiated evidence of child sexual abuse. .
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