Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)

Added multiple new sponsors to the bill, including Delegates Crutchfield, Tomlinson, Pasteur, Toles, Schmidt, Simmons, Phillips, Stinnett, Taylor, Simpson, Grammer, Sample-Hughes, Conaway, and Kaufman.

Expanded the definition of when physical restraints may be used during transportation to include situations where there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others.

Added a prohibition on youth transportation companies picking up children for transport between 9 PM and 6 AM.

Changed the definition of 'youth transportation company' to specify it means a business that specializes in transporting a person child to a residential child care program.

Added 'physical mechanical restraints' as a specific category of prohibited items during transportation, alongside visual impairment devices.

Added 'physical force to restrict free movement' and 'holds' to the list of prohibited restraint methods during transportation.

Updated the definition of residential child care programs to include youth children who have a history of diagnosis of emotional, behavioral, or mental health disorders, substance misuse disorders, or intellectual, developmental, physical, or sensory disabilities.