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      "date": "2002-12-04",
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      "title": "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Reauthorization Proposals in the 107th Congress",
      "summary": "The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) expired at the end of FY2001. In\n2002\nlegislation to reauthorize CAPTA passed the House and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and\nPensions Committee also approved CAPTA reauthorizing legislation. However no action was taken\nby the full Senate on CAPTA reauthorization before adjournment of the 107th Congress and each\nof\nthe CAPTA reauthorizations proposals ( H.R. 3839 ,  H.R. 5601 , and\n S. 2998 ) died with the close of that Congress. Despite expiration of its funding\nauthorization, Congress provided FY2002 funding ($81.6 million) for the various programs\nauthorized by CAPTA and FY2003 funding is available at this same level under the continuing\nresolution ( P.L. 107-294 ).\n  First enacted in 1974, CAPTA was intended to create a focal point in the federal government\nto identify and address issues of child abuse and neglect, and to support effective methods of\nprevention and treatment. The Act was most recently reauthorized in 1996 and authorizes grants to\nstates to help with their child protective service functions, funding for research and demonstration\nprojects related to child abuse and neglect, grants to states to improve investigation and prosecution\nof child maltreatment, and grants for community-based family resource and support services. The\nAct also authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to operate a national\nclearinghouse of information related to abuse and neglect, and requires states to submit certain data\nto HHS.\n  The national incidence of state-reported child abuse and neglect declined from 1993 through\n1999 but rose slightly in 2000. For that year an estimated 2.8 million reports of abuse and neglect\nwere made and some 879,000 children were found to be victims. Child abuse and neglect victims\nmay experience one or more kinds of maltreatment including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse,\npsychological or other maltreatment. Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment and\nin 2000 close to 63% of the 879,000 victims suffered neglect (including medical neglect).\n  This report describes the current structure of CAPTA along with three proposals to reauthorize\nCAPTA that were debated in the 107th Congress ( H.R. 3839 ,  S. 2998 , and\n H.R. 5601 ). Each, or most, of these bills also sought to amend the Adoption\nOpportunities program, Abandoned Infants Assistance and the Family Violence Prevention and\nServices Act; discussion of those programs and proposed changes are also included. This report will\nnot be updated.",
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