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INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 227
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-106
NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PROTECTION ACT
OCTOBER 16, 2023.-and ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 2273]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2273), to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Vio-
lence Prevention Act, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 2273 would modernize and reauthorize two programs estab-
lished by the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Preven-
tion Act,1 the Child Abuse Treatment Grant Program and the In-
dian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Program,
and authorize consolidation of the Regional Indian Child Resource
Centers into one National Indian Child Resource and Family Serv-
ices Center.2
BACKGROUND
Congress enacted the Indian Child Protection and Family Vio-
lence Prevention Act (Act) in 1990 following investigations by the
Committee on Indian Affairs and the Special Committee on Inves-
tigations.
At the time, the Committees found-
* Incidents of abuse of children on Indian reservations were
grossly underreported;
125 U.S.C. § 3201 (1990).
2See S. Rep. No. 101-203 (1989), 101-403 (1990), & 108-228 (2004).
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