34 U.S.C. § 40103 — Funding for improvement of child abuse crime information

(a) Omitted. This part of the section has been removed from the current law text. (b) Additional funding grants for improvement of child abuse crime information. (1) Subject to Congress providing the money, the Attorney General must give a grant to each state — favoring states that, as of December 20, 1993, had the lowest percentage of computerized child abuse case records — to be used for: (A) computerizing criminal history files for this chapter's purposes; (B) improving existing computerized files; (C) improving access to the national criminal history background check system; (D) helping the state send records to, or index records in, the national system; and (E) helping the state pay the cost of background checks for people who work or volunteer for a qualified public, nonprofit, or voluntary organization, so it can charge lower fees for those checks. (2) Congress authorized a total of $20,000,000 for these grants, spread across fiscal years 1999 through 2002. (c) Withholding State funds. Starting one year after December 20, 1993, if a state isn't following this chapter's requirements, the Attorney General can cut that state's funding under Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by up to 10 percent.