---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5106f–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5106f–1"
heading: "Report concerning voluntary reporting system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5106f-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform"
  - "Subchapter I — General Program"
---

# §5106f–1. Report concerning voluntary reporting system


Not later than April 30, 1993, and annually thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services, acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report concerning the measures being taken to assist [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) in implementing a voluntary reporting system for child abuse and neglect. Such reports shall contain information concerning the extent to which the child abuse and neglect reporting systems developed by the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) are coordinated with the automated foster care and adoption reporting system required under [section 679 of this title](/usc/42/679.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–295, title I, § 142, May 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 200.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1992, and not as part of title I of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act which comprises this subchapter.