FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

SEC. 211. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. Section 201 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 5111) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) by striking “50 percent between 1985 and 1990” and inserting “61 percent between 1986 and 1994”; and (ii) by striking “400,000 children at the end of June, 1990” and inserting “452,000 as of June 1994”; (B) in paragraph (5), by striking “local” and inserting “legal”; and (C) in paragraph (7), to read as follows: “(7) (A) currently, 40,000 children are free for adoption and awaiting placement; “(B) such children are typically school aged, in sibling groups, have experienced neglect or abuse, or have a physical, mental, or emotional disability; and “(C) while the children are of all races, children of color and older children (over the age of 10) are over represented in such group;”; and (2) in subsection (b)— (A) by striking “conditions, by—” and all that follows through “Department of Health and Human Services to—” and inserting “conditions, by providing a mechanism to—”; and (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph (2), as paragraphs (1) through (3), respectively, and by realigning the margins of such paragraphs accordingly.