---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5107"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5107"
heading: "Discretionary programs; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5107"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform"
  - "Subchapter I — General Program"
---

# §5107. Discretionary programs; authorization of appropriations

- (a)
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services, either directly, through grants to [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) and public and private, [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) organizations and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), or through jointly financed cooperative arrangements with [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8), and other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and organizations, is authorized to provide for activities of national significance related to child abuse prevention and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) and adoption reform, including operation of a national center to collect and disseminate information regarding child abuse and neglect, and operation of a national adoption information exchange system to facilitate the adoptive placement of children.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2), in carrying out the provisions of this subsection, shall provide for the continued operation of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in accordance with [section 5101(a) of this title](/usc/42/5101.md?p=a) for each of the fiscal years 1982 and 1983.
  - (3) If the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) determines, in fiscal year 1982 or 1983, to carry out any of the activities described in [section 5101(b) of this title](/usc/42/5101.md?p=b), the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall carry out such activities through the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.
- (b) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $12,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Of the amounts appropriated under this subsection for any fiscal year, not less than $2,000,000 shall be available to carry out title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and [Treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 [[42 U.S.C. 5111](/usc/42/5111.md) et seq.].

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 610, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 488.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 95–266, Apr. 24, 1978, 92 Stat. 205. Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 5111 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1978 Amendment note set out under section 5101 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, and not as part of title I of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act which comprises this subchapter.