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(5) any coordination between the National Cen-
ter for Missing Children and the National Center for 
Missing Adults; 
(6) website postings (or other uses of the Inter-
net) of information of identifiable information such 
as physical features and characteristics, clothing, 
and photographs of missing persons and unidentified 
human remains; and 
(7) any improvement with respect to—
(A) the collection of DNA information for 
missing persons and unidentified human re-
mains; and 
(B) entering such information into the 
Combined DNA Index System of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation and national criminal 
records databases. 
TITLE 
XI—NATIONAL 
CHILD 
ABUSE AND NEGLECT REG-
ISTRY ACT 
SEC. 1101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘National Child Abuse 
and Neglect Registry Act’’.
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SEC. 1102. NATIONAL REGISTRY OF SUBSTANTIATED CASES 
OF CHILD ABUSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, in consultation with the Attorney Gen-
eral, shall create a national registry of substantiated cases 
of child abuse or neglect. 
(b) INFORMATION.—
(1) COLLECTION.—The information in the reg-
istry described in subsection (a) shall be supplied by 
States and Indian tribes, or, at the option of a 
State, by political subdivisions of such State, to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
(2) TYPE OF INFORMATION.—The registry de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall collect in a central 
electronic registry information on persons reported 
to a State, Indian tribe, or political subdivision of a 
State as perpetrators of a substantiated case of child 
abuse or neglect. 
(c) SCOPE OF INFORMATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—
(A) TREATMENT OF REPORTS.—The infor-
mation to be provided to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services under this title 
shall relate to substantiated reports of child 
abuse or neglect.
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(B) EXCEPTION.—If a State, Indian tribe, 
or political subdivision of a State has an elec-
tronic register of cases of child abuse or neglect 
equivalent to the registry established under this 
title that it maintains pursuant to a require-
ment or authorization under any other provision 
of law, the information provided to the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services under 
this title shall be coextensive with that in such 
register. 
(2) FORM.—Information provided to the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services under this 
title—
(A) shall be in a standardized electronic 
form determined by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services; and 
(B) shall contain case-specific identifying 
information that is limited to the name of the 
perpetrator and the nature of the substantiated 
case of child abuse or neglect, and that com-
plies with clauses (viii) and (ix) of section 
106(b)(2)(A) of the Child Abuse Prevention 
and 
Treatment 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
5106(b)(2)(A)(viii) and (ix)).
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(d) CONSTRUCTION.—This title shall not be con-
strued to require a State, Indian tribe, or political subdivi-
sion of a State to modify—
(1) an equivalent register of cases of child 
abuse or neglect that it maintains pursuant to a re-
quirement or authorization under any other provi-
sion of law; or 
(2) any other record relating to child abuse or 
neglect, regardless of whether the report of abuse or 
neglect was substantiated, unsubstantiated, or deter-
mined to be unfounded. 
(e) ACCESSIBILITY.—Information contained in the 
national registry shall only be accessible to any Federal, 
State, Indian tribe, or local government entity, or any 
agent of such entities, that has a need for such informa-
tion in order to carry out its responsibilities under law 
to protect children from child abuse and neglect. 
(f) DISSEMINATION.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish standards for the dissemi-
nation of information in the national registry of substan-
tiated cases of child abuse or neglect. Such standards shall 
comply with clauses (viii) and (ix) of section 106(b)(2)(A)
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of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 
U.S.C. 5106(b)(2)(A)(viii) and (ix)).
Passed the House of Representatives March 8, 
2006. 
Attest:
Clerk.
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H.R. 4472
AN ACT 
To protect children, to secure the safety of judges, 
prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and their 
family members, to reduce and prevent gang vio-
lence, and for other purposes.