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12 2 STA T .7 1 8PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 20 6— AP R .28 , 2008 LEGIS L AT I V E H IST ORY— S .793( H.R. 14 1 8): HO U SE RE P ORTS: No . 11 0–56 7 ac co mp a nyi n g H.R. 1418 ( C omm. on En er gy an d Commerce). SENATE REPORTS: No. 110–140 (Comm. on Hea lth, Ed u cation, La b or, and Pen -s ions). CONGRESSIONAL RECOR D

Vol. 153 ( 2 007): Dec. 11, considered and passed Senate. Vol. 154 (2008): Apr. 8, considered and passed House, amended. Apr. 10, Senate concurred in House amendment. (4)byinsert in gaf ter s u bse c ti o n( h )thefo l lo w ing

‘(i) DAT A COL L EC T I O N.—T he Adm inistrator of the H ealth R esources and S er v ices Administration and the Commissioner of the Administration on Develo p mental Disabilities shall enter into an agreement to coordinate the collection of data by the Adminis - trator and the Commissioner regarding protection and advocacy services. ‘‘( j )T R AININ G AN D TEC H NICAL A S SISTANCE.— ‘‘( 1 ) G RANTS.— F or any fiscal year for which the amount appropriated to carry out this section is $6,0 00,000 or greater, the Administrator shall use 2 percent of such amount to ma k e a grant to an eligible national association for providing for training and technical assistance to protection and advocacy systems. ‘‘(2) DE F INITION.— I n this subsection, the term ‘eligible national association ’ means a national association with dem- onstrated e x perience in providing training and technical assist- ance to protection and advocacy systems. ‘‘(k) S Y STE M A U THORITY.—In providing services under this sec- tion, a protection and advocacy system shall have the same authori- ties, including access to records, as such system would have for purposes of providing services under subtitle C of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and B ill of Rights Act of 2000.’’

and ( 5 ) in subsection (l) (as redesignated by this subsection) by striking ‘‘2002 through 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘200 9 through 2012’’. Approved April 2 8 , 2008. Records.C o nt r a cts.