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Union Calendar No. 203

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 764

[Report No. 106–360]

To reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 12, 1999

Ms. PRYCE of Ohio (for herself, Mr. EWING, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. DELAY,

and Mrs. JONES of Ohio) introduced the following bill; which was referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary

OCTOBER 1, 1999

Additional sponsors: Mr. SHOWS, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. FROST, Mr. ENGLISH,

Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. WISE, Mr. FOLEY, Mr.

HILLIARD, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mrs. KELLY, Mr. MATSUI, Mrs.

MYRICK, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mrs. FOWLER, Mr. CRAMER,

Mr. HOBSON, Mr. COOKSEY, Mr. FRANKS of New Jersey, Mrs. JOHNSON

of Connecticut, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. PITTS, Mr. BLILEY, Mr.

GARY MILLER of California, Mr. ARMEY, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. EDDIE

BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. WYNN, Ms. KILPATRICK, Ms. NORTON,

Mr. RUSH, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas,

Mrs. CLAYTON, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. WATT of North Carolina, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. BISHOP, Mrs. MEEK of Florida, Ms. LEE, Ms.

CARSON, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin, Mr.

PORTMAN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. LAMPSON, and Mr. WEXLER

OCTOBER 1, 1999

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union

and ordered to be printed
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A BILL

To reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, and

for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Abuse Preven5 tion and Enforcement Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF ACCESS TO CERTAIN COURT

7 AND LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS TO PRE8 VENT CHILD ABUSE.

9 (a) DESCRIPTION OF GRANT PROGRAM.—Section

10 1402 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act

11 of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796aa–1) is amended by adding be12 fore the period at the end the following: ‘‘or to provide

13 child protective workers and child welfare workers (in pub14 lic and private agencies, who, in the course of their official

15 duties, are engaged in the assessment of risk and other

16 actions related to the protection of children, including

17 placement of children in foster care) access to criminal

18 conviction information and orders of protection based on

19 a claim of domestic or child abuse, or to improve law en20 forcement access to judicial custody orders, visitation or21 ders, protection orders, guardianship orders, stay away or22 ders, or other similar judicial orders’’.
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1 (b) APPLICATION TO RECEIVE GRANTS.—Section

2 1403 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796aa–2) is amended—

3 (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the

4 semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘or to provide

5 child protective workers and child welfare workers

6 (in public and private agencies, who, in the course

7 of their official duties, are engaged in the assess8 ment of risk and other actions related to the protec9 tion of children, including placement of children in

10 foster care) access to criminal conviction information

11 and orders of protection based on a claim of domes12 tic or child abuse, or to improve law enforcement ac13 cess to judicial custody orders, visitation orders, pro14 tection orders, guardianship orders, stay away or15 ders, or other similar judicial orders’’; and

16 (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the pe17 riod at the end the following: ‘‘or to provide child

18 protective workers and child welfare workers (in

19 public and private agencies, who, in the course of

20 their official duties, are engaged in the assessment

21 of risk and other actions related to the protection of

22 children, including placement of children in foster

23 care) access to criminal conviction information and

24 orders of protection based on a claim of domestic or

25 child abuse, or to improve law enforcement access to
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1 judicial custody orders, visitation orders, protection

2 orders, guardianship orders, stay away orders, or

3 other similar judicial orders’’.

4 (c) REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS.—Section 1404(a) of

5 such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796aa–3(a)) is amended in the mat6 ter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting after ‘‘to receive

7 a grant’’ the following: ‘‘for closed circuit televising of tes8 timony of children who are victims of abuse’’.

9 (d) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1409(2) of such Act (42

10 U.S.C. 3796aa–8(2)) is amended by inserting before the

11 period at the end the following: ‘‘or the taking of a child

12 in violation of a court order’’.

13 (e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Part N of title I of

14 such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796aa) is amended in the heading

15 to read as follows:
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1 ‘‘PART N—GRANTS FOR CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELE2 VISING OF TESTIMONY OF CHILDREN WHO

3 ARE VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND FOR IMPROV4 ING ACCESS TO COURT AND LAW ENFORCE5 MENT RECORDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRE6 VENTING CHILD ABUSE’’.

7 SEC. 3. USE OF FUNDS UNDER BYRNE GRANT PROGRAM

8 FOR CHILD PROTECTION.

9 Section 501(b) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con10 trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3751) is

11 amended—

12 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph

13 (25);

14 (2) by striking the period at the end of para15 graph (26) and adding ‘‘; and’’; and

16 (3) by adding at the end the following:

17 ‘‘(27) enforcing child abuse and neglect laws

18 and programs designed to prevent child abuse and

19 neglect.’’.

20 SEC. 4. INCREASE IN SET ASIDE FOR CHILD ABUSE VIC21 TIMS UNDER THE VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT OF

22 1984.

23 Section 1402(d)(2) of the Victims of Crime Act of

24 1984 is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting

25 ‘‘$20,000,000’’.

Union Calendar No. 203

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 764

[Report No. 106–360]

A BILL

To reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect,

and for other purposes.

OCTOBER 1, 1999

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the

State of the Union and ordered to be printed