42 U.S.C. § 5107 — Discretionary programs; authorization of appropriations

(a) (1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services may provide for nationally significant activities related to preventing and treating child abuse and reforming adoption. The Secretary may do this directly, through grants to States and public and private nonprofit organizations and agencies, or through jointly financed cooperative arrangements with States, public agencies, and other agencies and organizations. These activities may include operating a national center that collects and distributes information about child abuse and neglect and operating a national adoption information exchange system to help place children for adoption. (2) In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must continue operating the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in accordance with section 5101(a) of this title during fiscal years 1982 and 1983. (3) If the Secretary of Health and Human Services decides in fiscal year 1982 or 1983 to carry out any activity described in section 5101(b) of this title, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must carry out that activity through the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. (b) Congress may appropriate $12,000,000 to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 1982 and 1983. For each fiscal year, at least $2,000,000 of the amounts appropriated under this subsection must be available to carry out title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 [42 U.S.C. 5111 et seq.].