[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3902 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3902

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 reauthorize funding for court-appointed special advocates for victims 
of child abuse, training programs on child abuse for judicial personnel 
and attorneys, and closed-circuit television and video taping of child 
                           victim testimony.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 1998

 Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mrs. Morella) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
  Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 reauthorize funding for court-appointed special advocates for victims 
of child abuse, training programs on child abuse for judicial personnel 
and attorneys, and closed-circuit television and video taping of child 
                           victim testimony.

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

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM.

    Section 218(a) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
13014(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) $12,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2001, 2002, 
        and 2003.''

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF CHILD ABUSE TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR JUDICIAL 
              PERSONNEL AND PRACTITIONERS.

    Section 224(a) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
13024(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) $2,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 2001, 2002, 
        and 2003.''

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS FOR TELEVISED TESTIMONY.

    Section 1001(a)(7) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(7)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (D);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (E) 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
                    ``(F) $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2001, 
                2002, and 2003.''

SEC. 4. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.

    Section 40156 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 is amended 
by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e) and by adding the 
following new subsection:
    ``(d) The Attorney General shall annually compile and broadly 
disseminate (including through electronic publication) information 
about the use of funds and about the projects funded under this 
section, including any evaluations of the projects and information to 
enable replication and adoption of the strategies identified in the 
projects. Such dissemination shall target community-based programs, 
including domestic violence and sexual assault programs.''
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