I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4172 
To use grant funds to provide identification kits to certain children, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 6, 2019 
Mr. NORCROSS (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To use grant funds to provide identification kits to certain 
children, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Child Identi-
fication Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION KITS FOR MISSING CHILDREN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 402 of the Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 
11291) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding after paragraph (7) the following: 
‘‘(8) the proactive collection and central storage 
of comprehensive identification information about in-
dividual children by local, State, and Federal law en-
forcement agencies is resource intensive; and 
‘‘(9) the National Child Identification Program, 
known as ‘Safety Blitz’— 
‘‘(A) is a national community service ini-
tiative that has partnered with the Department 
of Justice, Department of State, Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, local law enforcement 
agencies, nonprofit organizations, and commu-
nity organizations to provide families with an 
inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identi-
fication kit, which can be turned over to law en-
forcement, by the parent or guardian of a child 
to provide information on a missing or traf-
ficked child; and 
‘‘(B) promotes the proactive collection and 
storage of comprehensive identification informa-
tion within the home, decentralizing the process 
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for law enforcement agencies that often lack the 
resources to collect and centrally store vital 
identification information related to individual 
children.’’. 
(b) GRANTS.—Section 405 of the Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 
11294) is amended by— 
(1) redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), 
and (9) as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10), 
respectively; and 
(2) inserting after paragraph (4) the following: 
‘‘(5) to provide to local law enforcement, for 
distribution to parents of children who attend kin-
dergarten or elementary school (as such term is de-
fined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965), inkless, in-home fin-
gerprint and DNA identification kits, which can be 
turned over to Federal, State, tribal, or local law en-
forcement in an effort to locate and return missing 
or trafficked children;’’. 
Æ 
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