CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF PURPOSE.

SEC. 201. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF 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) by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting the following:“(1) the number of children in substitute care has increased by nearly 24 percent since 1994, as our Nation’s foster care population included more than 565,000 as of September of 2001;“(2) children entering foster care have complex problems that require intensive services, with many such children having special needs because they are born to mothers who did not receive prenatal care, are born with life threatening conditions 117 STAT. 819 or disabilities, are born addicted to alcohol or other drugs, or have been exposed to infection with the etiologic agent for the human immunodeficiency virus;“(3) each year, thousands of children are in need of placement in permanent, adoptive homes;”;(B) by striking paragraph (6);(C) by striking paragraph (7)(A) and inserting the following:“(7)(A) currently, there are 131,000 children waiting for adoption;”; and(D) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (7), (8), (9), and (10) as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) respectively; and(2) in subsection (b)—(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting “, including geographic barriers,” after “barriers”; and(B) in paragraph (2), by striking “a national” and inserting “an Internet-based national”.