HR 4576
105th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child welfare
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Informers
Social Welfare
State laws
Violence
To amend section 106 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and subpart 1 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States receiving funds under such provisions to have in effect a State law providing for a criminal penalty on an individual who fails to report having knowledge of another individual's commission of a crime of violence or a sex crime against a person under the age of 18.
Introduced: September 15, 1998
Introduced by:
Waters, Maxine
Democratic
· California
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Became law
Sep 15, 1998
Referred to House Ways and Means
Sep 15, 1998
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 15, 1998
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Sep 15, 1998
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and title IV (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to require States receiving funds under such Acts to have in effect a State law providing for a criminal penalty on an individual who, having knowledge of another individual's commission of a crime of violence or a sex crime against a person under age 18, fails to report such crime to an appropriate State authority.
What's happening now
Referred to House Ways and Means
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