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[CITE: 42USC5714-25]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 72--JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH
 
     Part D--Coordinating, Training, Research, and Other Activities
 
Sec. 5714-25. Study

    The Secretary shall conduct a study of a representative sample of 
runaways to determine the percent who leave home because of sexual 
abuse. The report on the study shall include--
        (1) in the case of sexual abuse, the relationship of the 
    assaulter to the runaway; and
        (2) recommendations on how Federal laws may be changed to reduce 
    sexual assaults on children.

The study shall be completed to enable the Secretary to make a report to 
the committees of Congress with jurisdiction over this chapter, and to 
make such report available to the public, within one year of October 12, 
1999.

(Pub. L. 93-415, title III, Sec. 345, as added Pub. L. 106-71, 
Sec. 3(i), Oct. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1038.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 93-415, Sept. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1109, as amended, which 
enacted this chapter, sections 3772 to 3774 and 3821 of this title, and 
sections 4351 to 4353 and 5038 to 5042 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure, amended sections 3701, 3723, 3733, 3768, 3811 to 3814, 3882, 
and 3883 to 3888 of this title, section 5108 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, and sections 5031 to 5037 of Title 18, and 
repealed section 3889 of this title. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5601 of this 
title and Tables.
