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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3741 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3741

To require State child welfare agencies to promptly report information 
on missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2011

 Ms. Wilson of Florida (for herself, Ms. Bass of California, Ms. Brown 
 of Florida, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. 
Carney, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mrs. Christensen, 
Ms. Chu, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Clarke of Michigan, Ms. Clarke of New York, 
    Mr. Clay, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly of Virginia, Mr. 
Conyers, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. DeFazio, 
Ms. DeGette, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Ellison, Mr. 
 Fattah, Mr. Filner, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Al Green of Texas, 
  Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Grimm, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Hahn, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. 
Hastings of Florida, Mr. Higgins, Ms. Hochul, Mr. Holt, Mr. Honda, Mr. 
  Hoyer, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Ms. Eddie 
  Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Keating, Mr. Kildee, Mr. 
Kucinich, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Lee of 
 California, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Meeks, 
 Ms. Moore, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Payne, Mr. Polis, 
 Mr. Posey, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Richardson, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Rivera, Ms. 
 Ros-Lehtinen, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Rush, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
 David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Towns, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Waters, Mr. Watt, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
West, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
Peters, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mrs. Napolitano, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Cooper, Mr. 
McGovern, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Pierluisi, Ms. 
 Pingree of Maine, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mrs. McCarthy of 
New York, Mr. Barletta, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Speier, 
Mr. Clyburn, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Israel, Mr. 
Lipinski, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, and Mr. Serrano) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
 and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL

 
To require State child welfare agencies to promptly report information 
on missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rilya Wilson Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT STATE CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES REPORT 
              INFORMATION ON MISSING OR ABDUCTED CHILDREN TO THE 
              NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER.

    (a) State Plan Requirement.--Section 471(a) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (32), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (33), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (33) the following:
            ``(34) provides that the State has in effect procedures 
        that require the State agency to promptly report information on 
        missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities for 
        entry into the National Crime Information Center database.''.
    (b) Regulations.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
promulgate regulations to implement section 471(a)(34) of the Social 
Security Act, as added by subsection (a) of this section.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, without 
regard to whether the regulations required by subsection (b) have been 
promulgated.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL CHILD SEARCH ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1990.

    Paragraph (4) of section 3702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 5780) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``(2)'' and inserting ``(3)'';
            (2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, and a recent 
        photograph'' after ``dental records'';
            (3) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (4) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); 
        and
            (5) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
                    ``(C) notify the National Center for Missing and 
                Exploited Children of each report received relating to 
                a child reported missing from a foster care family home 
                or childcare institution; and''.
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