PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2024
This bill reauthorizes the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, extending and updating federal efforts to combat online child exploitation. It requires the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention to be updated every four years (instead of every two) and mandates detailed analyses of trends, resource needs, and ICAC task force performance - including arrests, prosecutions, and victim identification. The bill increases annual funding for these programs from $70 million (2025) to $90 million (2027) and adds limited liability protections for specialized law enforcement teams investigating online child exploitation. These provisions directly affect federal, state, local, tribal, and military law enforcement agencies operating ICAC task forces and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2024
Committee Review
Dec 2024
Senate Passage
Dec 2024
House Passage
President
Introduced Sep 17, 2024
Last action Dec 12, 2024
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
3
Committee
2
Dec 11, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6975-6976; text: CR S6975-6976)
upper
Dec 11, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
upper
Dec 11, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
upper
Sep 17, 2024
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
upper
Sep 17, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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