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The bill modestly funds expanded surveillance, research, and evidence-based prevention to reduce child sexual abuse — improving protections for children and resources for families and public health agencies — while creating modest taxpayer costs, potential privacy risks, and some state/local administrative burden.
Children and youth will receive expanded prevention programs and evidence-based strategies aimed at reducing incidents of child sexual abuse.
Public health agencies (CDC and HHS) will obtain improved surveillance and data collection, enabling more targeted prevention efforts and better public-health decisionmaking.
Parents and caregivers will have greater access to proven prevention resources as dissemination and implementation of evidence-based strategies are expanded.
Enhanced surveillance and data collection about children could raise privacy and civil liberties concerns if safeguards are not clearly specified and enforced.
Taxpayers will fund the program at an estimated federal cost of about $6 million per year from FY2027–FY2031.
State and local governments may face additional administrative burden — including staff time and system changes — to align with new CDC-led surveillance and prevention guidance.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs the CDC to maintain and expand a child sexual abuse prevention program and authorizes $6M per year for FY2027–FY2031 to improve research, surveillance, and evidence-based prevention.
Official title: Require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain and expand a program on child sexual abuse prevention.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks · Last progress June 24, 2026
Creates and funds a new CDC program to identify gaps in research and practice for preventing child sexual abuse, improve data collection (including technology-facilitated abuse), study risk and protective factors, and expand evidence-based prevention programs. Authorizes $6 million per year for FY2027–FY2031 to support the work. Requires the CDC to maintain and expand the Program on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, focusing on surveillance, research, program development, dissemination, and responses to increases in technology-facilitated child sexual abuse.