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U.S.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
115TH CONGRESS f REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 115-432
VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE ACT REAUTHORIZATION ACT
OF 2018
DECEMBER 12, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. GRASSLEY, from the Committee on Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2961]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2961) to reauthorize subtitle A of the Victims of Child Abuse
Act of 1990, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends
that the bill, as amended, do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Background and Purpose of the Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthor-
ization A ct of 20 18 .................................................................................... 1
II. History of the Bill and Committee Consideration .................. 3
III. Section-by-Section Sum m ary of the Bill ...................................................... 4
IV. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................... 5
V . Regulatory Im pact Evaluation ..................................................................... 6
V I. C on clu sion ..................................................................................................... 6
VII. Changes to Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported .......................... 6
1. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE ACT
REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2018
A.BACKGROUND
[The interest [of] safeguarding the physical and psychological
well-being of a minor . . . is a compelling one. Packingham v.
North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, 1739 (2017) (quoting Globe News-
paper Co. v. Superior Court, County of Norfolk, 457 U.S. 596, 607
(1982) (alterations in original)). Prior to 1990, child victims of sex-
ual abuse, physical abuse, or neglect were required to undergo a
difficult disclosure and investigation process. The discovery of an
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