Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Comprehensive Health and Integrity in Licensing and Documentation Act of 2025” or the “CHILD Act of 2025”.
Comprehensive Health and Integrity in Licensing and Documentation Act of 2025
AN ACT
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.
Sec. 2 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—
in clause (i)—
by inserting “, contracts with,” after “is employed by”;
by inserting “, contract with,” after “be employed by”; and
by striking “or” at the end;
by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii);
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;”
in clause (iii), as so redesignated, by adding “or” at the end; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(iv) is licensed or certified, or seeks to be licensed or certified, by a qualified entity;”