PREVENT Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4888 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4888

 To require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain
         and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.

_______________________________________________________________________

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2026

Ms. Alsobrooks (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health,
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain
         and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Risk and Exploitation
through Validated Education and Network-based Training Act'' or the
``PREVENT Act''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION.

    Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.)
is amended by inserting after section 317V of such Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-
24) the following:

``SEC. 317W. PROGRAM ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Director of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall maintain and
expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.
    ``(b) Program Components.--The program under subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) identify gaps in research and practice that are
        important to address in the efforts of the Federal Government
        to promote primary prevention of child sexual abuse; and
            ``(2) address such gaps and improve such research and
        practice, including by--
                    ``(A) improving surveillance systems and data
                collection for monitoring child sexual abuse, including
                technology-facilitated child sexual abuse;
                    ``(B) increasing understanding of risk and
                protective factors for child sexual abuse perpetration
                and victimization;
                    ``(C) strengthening existing, and developing new,
                evidence-based policies, programs, and practices for
                the primary prevention of child sexual abuse;
                    ``(D) increasing dissemination and implementation
                of evidence-based strategies for child sexual abuse
                prevention; and
                    ``(E) increasing understanding of the rise in
                technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and
                development of evidence-based strategies to address
                such abuse.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section,
there is authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2027 through 2031.''.
                                 <all>