To modify a provision relating to child sexual abuse and prevention treatment programs.

SA 4026. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1200, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act to revise and extend the Act; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

Strike paragraph (5) of section 713(b) of the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act (as amended by section 101) and insert
the following:
``(5) To identify and provide behavioral health treatment
to Indian perpetrators and perpetrators who are members of an
Indian household making efforts to begin offender and
behavioral health treatment while the perpetrator is
incarcerated or at the earliest possible date if the
perpetrator is not incarcerated.
At the end of section 713 of the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act (as amended by section 101), add the
following:
``(d) Limitation on Funding.--Treatment shall be provided
for a perpetrator pursuant to this section only if the
treatment is scientifically demonstrated to reduce the
potential of the perpetrator to commit child sexual abuse
again, and shall not provide the basis to reduce any
applicable criminal punishment or civil liability for that
abuse.
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