Native American Child Protection Act

All specific funding authorizations were removed: $30 million per year (FY2023-2028) for treatment grants under section 409, $3 million per year for the Resource Center under section 410, and $60 million per year for Tribal child protection grants under section 411.

A new Section 3 (Limitation on appropriations) was added stating that no additional amounts are authorized to carry out the Act and all programs must be subject to availability of appropriations made in advance, effectively making the bill dependent on existing or future annual appropriations rather than multi-year authorizations.

The lead agency for treatment grants under section 409 was changed from 'The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Service' to 'The Service, in cooperation with the Bureau,' giving the Indian Health Service direct authority rather than acting through HHS.

The bill was changed from authorizing multiple resource centers to a single 'National Indian Child Resource and Family Services Center.' References to 'Each' center and 'multidisciplinary' teams were removed or replaced with singular 'The' language.

Several references to 'sexual abuse' were broadened to 'abuse and neglect' or 'abuse, neglect, or both,' expanding the types of cases covered by grants and services. For example, section 409 grant eligibility changed from 'sexual abuse' to 'abuse or neglect,' and section 411 formula factors changed from 'sexual abuse' to 'abuse and neglect, high incidence of family violence.'

State governments were explicitly added to the scope of intergovernmental agreement development under section 410, changing 'Federal' to 'Federal, State,' and adding urban Indian organizations alongside Tribal organizations in multiple service delivery provisions.

Urban Indian organizations were added as eligible entities throughout the bill: for treatment grants (section 409), as recipients of Center services (section 410), and in intergovernmental agreement development. Previously only Tribes, Tribal organizations, and intertribal consortia were eligible.

New grant purposes were added under section 411: development of agreements between Tribes, States, or private agencies on coordination of child abuse and neglect services; child protective services operational costs including transportation, risk assessments, kinship navigator services, relative searches, criminal background checks, and home studies; and development of a Tribal child protection or multidisciplinary team.

A one-year deadline was added requiring the Secretary to develop caseload standards and staffing requirements in consultation with Indian Tribes within one year of enactment.