To comprehensively combat child marriage in the United States.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To comprehensively combat child marriage in the United States., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Criminal Justice, Government Operations.
Who Benefits and How
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Child Marriage Prevention Act of 2024.
- Section idcd07120f3a8c44b6bfe4734dca84252e: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: Over 300,000 minors were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018. Most were wed to adult men and some were...
- Section ida9eda68bf7824f6eac09c1de92ac82db: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term noncitizen means any person who is not a citizen or national of the United States. The term State means each of the...
- Section id74aadb5d52704f0a952d70e963305ffd: 4. Federal commission to address child marriage There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services a commission, to be known as the...
- Section id5f74bb3ddb7f4fd0aa482d698bdb221e: 5. GAO reports In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Health, Education, and...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To comprehensively combat child marriage in the United States., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Criminal Justice, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
This bill, To comprehensively combat child marriage in the United States., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Schatz, and Mrs. Gillibrand) introduced …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a grant under— part T of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10441 et seq.) (commonly referred to as the STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program)
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