to report on the training programs they present, in-
cluding the number of participants. 
‘‘(h) 
CONSOLIDATION
OF
JURISDICTION
OF 
COURTS.—The United States Central Authority shall en-
courage the Chief Justice of each State and the District 
of Columbia to designate a single court, or a limited num-
ber of courts, in which cases brought under the Conven-
tion may be heard. The Central Authority may provide 
technical assistance (including computers and Internet ac-
cess) as necessary to foster consolidation of jurisdiction 
and implementation of the Convention, consistent with the 
purposes of the Convention. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi-
tion to any other funds made available to carry out this 
Act, there are authorized to be appropriated to the United 
States Central Authority such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out subsections (g) and (h).’’. 
(b) EXEMPTION FROM COURT COSTS.—Section 8(b) 
of the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (42 
U.S.C. 11607(b)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (3) through (4), respectively; 
(2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following:
‘‘(1) No court costs may be assessed on a peti-
tioner in connection with a petition seeking the re-
turn of, or rights of access to, a child located in the 
United States, pursuant to this Act. 
‘‘(2) Petitioners may be required to bear the 
costs of legal counsel or advisors, court costs in-
curred in connection with their petitions (other than 
petitions described in paragraph (1)) and travel 
costs for the return of the child involved and any ac-
companying persons, except as provided in para-
graphs (3) and (4).’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated—
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘paragraph (4)’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘(other than in connection 
with a petition described in paragraph (1))’’ 
after ‘‘or court costs’’. 
(c) FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER.—Section 620 of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(c) CONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING PRO-
GRAMS.—The Center shall include in its continuing edu-
cation and training programs, including the training pro-
grams for newly appointed judges, information on the 
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction, the International Child Abduction Rem-
edies Act, the International Parental Kidnapping Crime 
Act, and other Federal statutes pertaining to parental kid-
napping within the jurisdiction of the Federal courts.’’. 
SEC. 7. REPORTS RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL CHILD AB-
DUCTION. 
(a) REPORT ON PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATING BILAT-
ERAL TREATIES WITH NON-HAGUE CONVENTION COUN-
TRIES.—The Secretary of State shall prepare and submit 
to the Congress an annual report on progress made by 
the United States in negotiating and entering into bilat-
eral treaties (or other international agreements) relating 
to international child abduction with countries that are not 
contracting parties to the Hague Convention on the Civil 
Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Secretary 
of State shall include in the report the number of child 
abductions in countries that are not such contracting par-
ties. 
(b) REPORT ON ENFORCEMENT OF SECTION 1204 OF 
TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE.—The Attorney Gen-
eral, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall pre-
pare and submit to the Congress an annual report that 
contains a description of the status of each case involving 
a request during the preceding year for extradition to the
United States of an individual alleged to have violated sec-
tion 1204 of title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 8. SUPPORT FOR UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURIS-
DICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT. 
From amounts made available to carry out this sec-
tion, the Attorney General shall support, directly or 
through grants and contracts, the adoption and implemen-
tation by the States of the Uniform Child Custody Juris-
diction and Enforcement Act, as adopted by the National 
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘UCCJEA’’). The support 
provided under this section shall include the following ac-
tivities: 
(1) Activities to promote the adoption of the 
UCCJEA by States that have not yet adopted it. 
(2) Activities to provide training to lawyers and 
to judges and other appropriate public officials to 
ensure that the UCCJEA is implemented effectively 
and uniformly throughout the United States. 
(3) Activities to provide guidance and funding 
to States to facilitate and expedite the enforcement 
by those States of the custody and visitation provi-
sions of the UCCJEA.
SEC. 9. USE OF SUPERVISED VISITATION CENTERS UNDER 
THE SAFE HAVENS FOR CHILDREN PILOT 
PROGRAM IN SITUATIONS INVOLVING THE 
RISK OF PARENTAL KIDNAPPING. 
Section 1301(a) of the Violence Against Women Act 
of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 10420(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘or 
stalking’’ and inserting ‘‘stalking, or the risk of parental 
kidnapping’’. 
SEC. 10. DISCLOSURE OF TAXPAYER IDENTITY INFORMA-
TION TO NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING 
AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND DEPART-
MENT OF STATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (m) of section 6103 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to disclosure 
of taxpayer identity information) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(8) REQUESTS FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER 
FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN OR THE 
SECRETARY
OF
STATE.—Upon written request by 
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Chil-
dren or the Secretary of State, the Secretary may 
disclose the mailing address and any business ad-
dress of any taxpayer or dependent thereof pursuant 
to section 404 of the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act, for use only by the National Center for Missing 
and Exploited Children or the Department of State,
as the case may be, in locating and recovering miss-
ing and exploited children.’’. 
(b) SAFEGUARDS.—Paragraph (4) of section 6103(p) 
of such Code (relating to safeguards) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(16) or’’ and inserting ‘‘(16), 
or’’, 
(2) by inserting ‘‘or in subsection (m)(8)’’ after 
‘‘(20)’’ each place it occurs, and 
(3) by ‘‘or (7) of subsection (m)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(7), or (8) of subsection (m)’’. 
(c) CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR UNAUTHORIZED DIS-
CLOSURE OF INFORMATION.—Paragraph (2) of section 
7213(a) of such Code (relating to State and other employ-
ees) is amended by striking ‘‘or (7)’’ and inserting ‘‘(7), 
or (8)’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to requests made after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 11. SUPPORT FOR INCREASED U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO 
HAGUE PERMANENT BUREAU. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The problem of international child abduc-
tion is complex, frustrating, and growing, with more 
than 16,000 reported cases in the past two decades 
according to the Department of State, and many
more unreported cases according to the National 
Center 
for 
Missing 
and 
Exploited 
Children 
(NCMEC). 
(2) Congress has listened to horror stories from 
countless ‘‘left-behind’’ American parents struggling 
to retrieve their children who have been taken 
abroad by an abducting parent, enforce orders from 
the courts of other countries directing the return of 
their children, or even simply to gain access to their 
children who are being detained abroad. 
(3) There is an international treaty relating to 
the prevention of international child abduction, the 
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International 
Child Abduction, signed by the United States and 73 
additional countries. 
(4) There is wide disparity and inconsistency in 
the application of the treaty by member countries. 
(5) If the United States is to truly address this 
serious problem, the international body, The Hague 
Conference on Private International Law, which ad-
ministers and oversees this treaty, must be strength-
ened and made more viable. 
(6) If the United States is to address the heart-
rending pain of so many left-behind parents, we 
need to build bridges to those parts of the world
that are not yet parties to the current treaty, and 
we must make those countries that are signatories 
to the treaty better able to deal with the complex-
ities of the challenge and ensure that more children 
come home. 
(7) In an effort to address this problem more 
aggressively and effectively, the International Centre 
for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), the 
privately funded international affiliate of NCMEC, 
recently entered into a formal Memorandum of 
Agreement with The Hague Conference on Private 
International Law, which oversees a number of pri-
vate international law agreements, including the 
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International 
Child Abduction. 
(8) Through that Memorandum of Agreement, 
ICMEC will seek to generate private sector revenues 
and support in order to improve the functioning of 
the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International 
Child Abduction, including establishing a new Inter-
national Training Institute for judges and other 
practitioners, and undertaking an outreach effort 
with the Islamic world on these issues.
(9) ICMEC has conferred with leaders around 
the world on how best to strengthen the treaty and 
ensure its more effective implementation. 
(10) ICMEC has concluded that an integral 
part of the current problem is that The Hague 
budget includes two parts: 
(A) A core budget based on a formula that 
supports basic functions and operations. 
(B) A supplementary budget that the 
Hague Permanent Bureau must raise apart 
from its formula appropriations. 
(11) The core budget is relatively small and 
thus most of the activities necessary to address the 
inconsistencies and problems regarding the Conven-
tion on the Civil Aspects of International Child Ab-
duction are dependent upon supplemental funds. 
(12) The Permanent Bureau at The Hague 
must either request additional funds from member 
countries or be dependent upon nongovernmental or-
ganizations like ICMEC to generate additional re-
sources. 
(13) At the April 1, 2003, meeting at The 
Hague of the Special Commission on General Affairs 
and Policy, three member countries (the United 
Kingdom, Canada, and Australia) expressed support
for a fundamental shift in fiscal policy, that is by re-
examining the basic funding formula and increasing 
the core budget so that the Permanent Bureau is 
able to undertake the vital reforms necessary as part 
of its core operations. 
(14) Although this effort would increase the 
amount of the United States contribution required 
to support the Permanent Bureau at The Hague 
each year, it is central to addressing the complex, 
frustrating, problem of international child abduction. 
(b) SUPPORT FOR INCREASED U.S. SUPPORT FOR 
HAGUE PERMANENT BUREAU.—The Congress expresses 
its support for increasing the United States contribution 
to the Permanent Bureau at The Hague to provide in-
creased resources for the prevention of international child 
abduction and other critical activities of the Bureau, in-
cluding—
(1) to address the inconsistencies and lack of 
uniformity in the implementation of the Convention 
on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduc-
tion, signed at The Hague on October 25, 1980, in-
cluding the establishment of a training institute; 
(2) to establish guides of good practice for 
member countries in addressing the vexing problems
of access and enforcement of orders relating to 
international child abduction; and 
(3) to encourage more countries, from all re-
gions of the world, to become parties to the Conven-
tion on the Civil Aspects of International Child Ab-
duction.
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