Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 124.djvu/3485

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124 STAT. 3459 PUBLIC LAW 111–320—DEC. 20, 2010 Public Law 111–320 111th Congress An Act To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, and the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to reauthorize the Acts, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010’’. TITLE I—CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT SEC. 101. FINDINGS. Section 2 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5101 note) is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: ‘‘(1) in fiscal year 2008, approximately 772,000 children were found by States to be victims of child abuse and neglect;’’; (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘and close to 1⁄3 of all child maltreatment-related fatalities in fiscal year 2008 were attributed to neglect alone’’ after ‘‘maltreat- ment’’; and (B) in subparagraph (B)— (i) by striking ‘‘60 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘71 per- cent’’; (ii) by striking ‘‘2001’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2008’’; (iii) by striking ‘‘19 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘16 percent’’; (iv) by striking ‘‘10 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘9 per- cent’’; and (v) by striking ‘‘and 7 percent suffered emotional maltreatment’’ and inserting ‘‘, 7 percent suffered psychological maltreatment, 2 percent experienced medical neglect, and 9 percent were victims of other forms of maltreatment’’; (3) in paragraph (3)— (A) in subparagraph (A) by inserting ‘‘or neglect’’ after ‘‘abuse’’; 42 USC 5101 note. CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010. Dec. 20, 2010 [S. 3817]