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OCR Page 1 of 12THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
'00 MAR PM9:51
March 9, 2000
Bill Signing Ceremony for H.R. 764, the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act and
Jennifer's Law
DATE:
March 10, 2000
LOCATION:
Oval Office
TIME:
10:05 AM-10:15AM
FROM:
Chuck Brain CMB
I.
PURPOSE
To sign into law H.R. 764, the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act (CAPE) and
Jennifer's Law.
II.
BACKROUND
The Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement (CAPE) Act works to reduce incidences of
child abuse and neglect by providing funding for child abuse prevention training and
support organizations. Jennifer's Law establishes a program to improve the reporting of
unidentified human remains. This legislation was sponsored in the House by
Representatives Deborah Pryce (R-OH) and Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) and in the
Senate by Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT). H.R. 764 passed
the House, 425-2, on October 5th and passed the Senate by unanimous consent on
October 19th.
Each day there are 9,000 reports of child abuse in America and -more than three million
cases annually of abused or neglected children. The Child Abuse Prevention and
Enforcement Act provides these abused or neglected children with Federal assistance
without any additional cost to taxpayers. The CAPE Act supplies state and local officials
the flexibility to use existing Department of Justice grant programs to prevent child abuse
and neglect, to investigate child abuse and neglect crimes, and, finally, to protect children
who have suffered from abuse and neglect. The bill does this by making three changes to
current law:
First, the bill amends the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998 to make grant
dollars available to enhance the capability of agencies and workers to gather criminal
history information for child welfare, child abuse and adoption purposes. Congress has
authorized $250 million annually for grants under that Act.
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