1996 CAPTA Amendments

[ptc1@xxxxxxxxxxx (Patrick T. Collins)]

As you may be aware, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)
was recently reauthorized and amended.  The bill (S.919) was signed into
law on October 3, 1996 as Public Law 104-235.  The amendments are available
on-line at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:S.919.ENR:

Since this is a very busy site I have also loaded a text version of the
file onto the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect's Web server
(http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/).  Look under Hot Items on the home page
and you will find two versions of the file -- one is for browsing and the
other is for downloading.

As I understand it, the job of integrating the recent amendments with the
existing CAPTA legislation has not yet been completed.  In the interim,
you may want to obtain a copy of the existing CAPTA legislation (As amended
on November 4, 1992).  I have not been successful in locating this document
on-line but I believe you can obtain hard copy from the National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.  You can reach them
as follows:

P.O. Box 1182
Washington, DC 20013-1182
1-800-FYI-3366 or 1-800-394-3366
In the DC metro area call: 703-385-7565
Fax: 703-385-3206
E-mail: nccanch@calib.com



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Patrick T. Collins -- ptc1@cornell.edu