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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3092 

To amend the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 

Mr. GUTHRIE (for himself, Mr. KLINE, and Mr. WALBERG) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 

Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, and for 

other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Missing Children’s As5 sistance Reauthorization Act of 2013’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SPECIAL RULE. 

7 Whenever the term ‘‘title’’ is used for the purposes 

8 of this Act it shall be replaced with the term ‘‘Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS. 

2 (a) FINDINGS.—Section 402 of the Missing Chil3 dren’s Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771) is amended— 

4 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through 

5 (9) as paragraphs (4) through (10), respectively, 

6 and 

7 (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol8 lowing: 

9 ‘‘(3) many missing children are runaways;’’. 

10 (b) DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF ADMINISTRATOR.— 

11 Section 404 of the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (42 

12 U.S.C. 5773) is amended— 

13 (1) in subsection (a)— 

14 (A) in paragraph (5)— 

15 (i) by striking ‘‘Representatives, and’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘Representatives, the Com17 mittee on Education and the Workforce of 

18 the House of Representatives,’’, and 

19 (ii) by inserting ‘‘, and the Committee 

20 on the Judiciary of the Senate’’ after 

21 ‘‘Senate’’, 

22 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and 

23 (5) as (5) and (6), respectively, and 

24 (C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 

25 following: 


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1 ‘‘(4) coordinate with the United States Inter2 agency Council on Homelessness to ensure that 

3 homeless services professionals are aware of edu4 cational resources and assistance provided by the 

5 Center regarding child sexual exploitation;’’, 

6 (2) in subsection (b)— 

7 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

8 (i) in subparagraph (C)— 

9 (I) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘gov10 ernments,’’, and 

11 (II) by inserting ‘‘State and local 

12 educational agencies,’’ after ‘‘agen13 cies,’’, 

14 (ii) in subparagraph (R) by striking 

15 ‘‘and’’ at the end, 

16 (iii) in subparagraph (S) by striking 

17 the period at the end and inserting a semi18 colon, and 

19 (iv) by adding at the end the fol20 lowing: 

21 ‘‘(T) provide technical assistance and 

22 training to State and local law enforcement 

23 agencies and statewide clearinghouses to coordi24 nate with State and local educational agencies 

25 in identifying and recovering missing children; 


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1 ‘‘(U) assist the efforts of law enforcement 

2 agencies in coordinating with child welfare 

3 agencies to respond to foster children missing 

4 from the State welfare system; and 

5 ‘‘(V) provide technical assistance to law en6 forcement agencies and first responders in iden7 tifying, locating, and recovering victims of, and 

8 children at risk for, child sex trafficking.’’, and 

9 (B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 

10 follows: 

11 ‘‘(2) LIMITATION.— 

12 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 

13 other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 

14 used to pay the compensation of an individual 

15 employed by the Center if such compensation, 

16 as determined at the beginning of each grant 

17 year, exceeds 110 percent of the maximum an18 nual salary payable to a member of the Federal 

19 Government’s Senior Executive Service (SES) 

20 for that year. The Center may compensate an 

21 employee at a higher rate provided the amount 

22 in excess of this limitation is paid with non23 Federal funds. 


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1 ‘‘(B) DEFINITION OF COMPENSATION.— 

2 For the purpose of this paragraph, the term 

3 ‘compensation’— 

4 ‘‘(i) includes salary, bonuses, periodic 

5 payments, severance pay, the value of a 

6 compensatory or paid leave benefit not ex7 cluded by clause (ii), and the fair market 

8 value of any employee perquisite or benefit 

9 not excluded by clause (ii); and 

10 ‘‘(ii) excludes any Center expenditure 

11 for health, medical, or life insurance, or 

12 disability or retirement pay, including pen13 sions benefits.’’, 

14 (3) in subsection (c)(1)— 

15 (A) by striking ‘‘periodically’’ and inserting 

16 ‘‘triennially’’, and 

17 (B) by striking ‘‘kidnapings’’ and inserting 

18 ‘‘kidnappings’’, and 

19 (4) in subsection (c)(2) by inserting ‘‘, in com20 pliance with the Family Educational Rights and Pri21 vacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. 1232g)’’ after ‘‘birth 

22 certificates’’. 

23 (c) GRANTS.—Section 405(a) of the Missing Chil24 dren’s Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5775(a)) is amended— 


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1 (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘schools, 

2 school leaders, teachers, State and local educational 

3 agencies, homeless shelters and service providers,’’ 

4 after ‘‘children,’’, and 

5 (2) in paragraph (3) by inserting ‘‘and schools’’ 

6 after ‘‘communities’’. 

7 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 

8 407(a) of the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (42 

9 U.S.C. 5777(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘such’’ and all 

10 that follows through the period at the end, and inserting 

11 ‘‘$35,800,000 for each of the fiscal years 2014 through 

12 2018, up to $32,200,000 of which shall be used to carry 

13 out section 404(b) for each such fiscal year.’’. 

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