NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

SEC. 104. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE. Section 104 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5104) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), to read as follows: “(a) Establishment.— The Secretary shall through the Department, or by one or more contracts of not less than 3 years duration let througn a competition, establish a national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse.”; (2) in subsection (b)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “Director” and inserting “Secretary”; (B) in paragraph (1)— (i) by inserting “assessment,” after “prevention,”; and (ii) by striking “, including” and all that follows and inserting “; and”; (C) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking “general population” and inserting “United States”; (ii) in subparagraph (B), by adding “and” at the end; (iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking “; and” at the end and inserting a period; and (iv) by striking subparagraph (D); and (D) by striking paragraph (3); and (3) in subsection (c)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— (i) by striking “In establishing” and inserting the following: “(1) In general.— In establishing”; and (ii) by striking “Director” and inserting “Secretary”; (B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively, and by moving the text of subparagraphs (A) through (D) (as redesignated) 2 ems to the right; (C) in subparagraph (B) (as redesignated), by striking “that is represented on the task force” and inserting “involved with child abuse and neglect and mechanisms for the sharing of such information among other Federal agencies and clearinghouses”; (D) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated), by striking “State, regional” and all that follows and inserting the following: Federal, State, regional, and local child welfare data systems which shall include— “(i) standardized data on false, unfounded, unsubstantiated, and substantiated reports; and “(ii) information on the number of deaths due to child abuse and neglect;”; 110 STAT. 3067 (E) by redesignating subparagraph (D) (as redesignated) as subparagraph (F); (F) by inserting after subparagraph (C) (as redesignated), the following new subparagraphs: “(D) through a national data collection and analysis program and in consultation with appropriate State and local agencies and experts in the held, collect, compile, and make available State child abuse and neglect reporting information which, to the extent practical, shall be universal and case specific and integrated with other case-based foster care and adoption data collected by the Secretary; “(E) compile, analyze, and publish a summary of the research conducted under section 105(a); and”; and (G) by adding at the end the following: “(2) Confidentiality requirement.— In carrying out paragraph (1)(D), the Secretary shall ensure that methods are established and implemented to preserve the confidentiality of records relating to case specific data.”.