(Harrisburg) -- A bloc of activists are calling for a comprehensive reform of state laws and agencies intended to identify and penalize child abuse. When it comes to facing down child abuse, children’s advocates say the state comes up short. One example: the state’s record of missing nine percent of calls to its child abuse hotline. Cathleen Palm, with the Protect Our Children Committee, says a bipartisan commission of both state House and Senate lawmakers could change problems like that right away. "Some of these other things about how we define child abuse and what we do in terms of pathways to service may take a little bit more time," she says, "And that can be parallel but also secondary to what the commission does." Palm says other problems include child abuse reporting laws, which come with inconsistent penalties. She says such oversight is the result of a 2006 change made in response to another grand jury report. A commission, she says, would bring some urgency as well as some deliberation to the process.