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.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3100 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3100

   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.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2025

Mr. Fry (for himself and Mr. Moskowitz) introduced the following bill;
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

   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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. 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;'';
            (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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