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S. 539119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) · 12 active : 5 Republicans, 7 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 80.
Where it standsBefore the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
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- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and updates (1) the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction (National Strategy), and (2) the National Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program.
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With respect to the National Strategy, current law requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to update the strategy every two years and include 19 specific elements in the strategy (e.g., long-range goals, annual measurable objectives, and future trends). This bill requires DOJ to update the National Strategy every four years. The bill also revises and consolidates the 19 required elements into 9 required elements, including an analysis of current trends and challenges as well as the overall magnitude of the threat of child exploitation.
The ICAC Task Force Program is a national network of task forces that support state and local efforts to investigate and prosecute the online sexual exploitation of children. This bill requires ICAC task forces to increase the investigative capacity of law enforcement to identify child victims and report the number of child victims identified in their annual reports. The bill also limits the liability of ICAC task forces for civil claims or criminal charges in federal or state court arising from decisions with respect to leads related to internet crimes against children.
Finally, the bill requires the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to provide additional information to law enforcement agencies when it refers a report of online sexual exploitation of children for investigation.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Child safety and welfare
- Civil actions and liability
- Computers and information technology
- Crime prevention
- Crimes against children
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Human trafficking
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Law enforcement administration and funding
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- Missing persons
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 53Middle 30–70
- 40Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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Cosponsors
12 activeShow all 12 cosponsors
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
