United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 5106g

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Bills that would change it 25

  • HR 8156 National Parent and Youth Helpline Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 5560 Statutes of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act Amends 5106g(b) · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 1866 GUARD Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 851 GUARD Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 7812 National Parent and Youth Helpline Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 6258 GUARD Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 2394 GUARD Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 2920 Statutes of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act Amends 5106g(b) · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 3949 Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 Amends 5106g(b)(1) · enacted · 117th Congress
  • HR 9507 Parental Right to Protect Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 5150 Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2021 Amends 5106g(b)(1) · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 7644 Pride in Mental Health Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 1927 CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2021 Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 4860 Statutes of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act Amends 5106g(b) · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 1497 Protecting LGBTQ Youth Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 485 Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 1379 Protecting LGBTQ Youth Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 925 The Heroes Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 1160 Supporting Family Mental Health in CAPTA Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 2971 CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2019 Amends its part 5106g(b) · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 2480 Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 2775 Protecting LGBTQ Youth Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 2503 Supporting Family Mental Health in CAPTA Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 1073 Protecting LGBTQ Youth Act Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 2696 Supporting Infant Plans of Safe Care Implementation Act Amends its part · introduced · 115th Congress

The law today

From the official United States Code, current through Public Law 119-124.

(a) Definitions For purposes of this subchapter— (1) the term “Alaska Native” has the meaning given the term “Native” in section 1602 of title 43; (2) the term “infant or toddler with a disability” has the meaning given the term in section 1432 of title 20; (3) the term “Native Hawaiian” has the meaning given the term in section 7517 of title 20; (4) the term “sexual abuse” includes— (A) the employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of any child to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in, any sexually explicit conduct or simulation of such conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct; or (B) the rape, and in cases of caretaker or inter-familial relationships, statutory rape, molestation, prostitution, or other form of sexual exploitation of children, or incest with children; and (5) the term “withholding of medically indicated treatment” means the failure to respond to the infant’s life-threatening conditions by providing treatment (including appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication) which, in the treating physician’s or physicians’ reasonable medical judgment, will be most likely to be effective in ameliorating or correcting all such conditions, except that the term does not include the failure to provide treatment (other than appropriate nutrition, hydration, or medication) to an infant when, in the treating physician’s or physicians’ reasonable medical judgment— (A) the infant is chronically and irreversibly comatose; (B) the provision of such treatment would— (i) merely prolong dying; (ii) not be effective in ameliorating or correcting all of the infant’s life-threatening conditions; or (iii) otherwise be futile in terms of the survival of the infant; or (C) the provision of such treatment would be virtually futile in terms of the survival of the infant and the treatment itself under such circumstances would be inhumane. (b) Special rule (1) In general For purposes of section 3(2) 1 and subsection (a)(4), a child shall be considered a victim of “child abuse and neglect” and of “sexual abuse” if the child is identified, by a State or local agency employee of the State or locality involved, as being a victim of human trafficking. (2) State option Notwithstanding the definition of “child” in section 3(1),1 a State may elect to define that term for purposes of the application of paragraph (1) to section 3(2) 1 and subsection (a)(4) as a person who has not attained the age of 24.
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