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‘‘(3) for fiscal year 2008, $8,000,000; 
‘‘(4) for fiscal year 2009, $9,000,000; and 
‘‘(5) for fiscal year 2010, $10,000,000.’’. 
SEC. 1002. THE JUSTICE FOR CRIME VICTIMS FAMILY ACT. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Justice for Crime Victims Family Act’’. 
(b) STUDY
OF MEASURES NEEDED
TO IMPROVE 
PERFORMANCE OF HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS.—Not later 
than six months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report out-
lining what measures are needed to improve the perform-
ance of Federal, State, and local criminal investigators of 
homicide. The report shall include an examination of— 
(1) the benefits of increasing training and re-
sources for such investigators, with respect to inves-
tigative techniques, best practices, and forensic serv-
ices; 
(2) the existence of any uniformity among State 
and local jurisdictions in the measurement of homi-
cide rates and clearance of homicide cases; 
(3) the coordination in the sharing of informa-
tion among Federal, State, and local law enforce-
ment and coroners and medical examiners; and 
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(4) the sources of funding that are in existence 
on the date of the enactment of this Act for State 
and local criminal investigators of homicide. 
(c) IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED FOR SOLVING HOMI-
CIDES INVOLVING MISSING PERSONS AND UNIDENTIFIED 
HUMAN REMAINS.—Not later than six months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 
shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judi-
ciary of the Senate a report to evaluate measures to im-
prove the ability of Federal, State, and local criminal in-
vestigators of homicide to solve homicides involving miss-
ing persons and unidentified human remains. The report 
shall include an examination of— 
(1) measures to expand national criminal 
records databases with accurate information relating 
to missing persons and unidentified human remains; 
(2) the collection of DNA samples from poten-
tial ‘‘high-risk’’ missing persons; 
(3) the benefits of increasing access to national 
criminal records databases for medical examiners 
and coroners; 
(4) any improvement in the performance of 
postmortem examinations, autopsies, and reporting 
procedures of unidentified persons or remains; 
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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: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 379 
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. 
MARCH 27, 2006 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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