‘‘(1) each year thousands of children are ab-
ducted or removed from the control of a parent hav-
ing legal custody without such parent’s consent, 
under circumstances which immediately place the 
child in grave danger; 
‘‘(2) many missing children are at great risk of 
both physical harm and sexual exploitation; 
‘‘(3) in many cases, parents and local law en-
forcement officials have neither the resources nor 
the expertise to mount expanded search efforts; 
‘‘(4) abducted children are frequently moved 
from one locality to another, requiring the coopera-
tion and coordination of local, State, and Federal 
law enforcement efforts; 
‘‘(5) growing numbers of children are the vic-
tims of child sexual exploitation, increasingly involv-
ing the use of new technology to access the Internet; 
‘‘(6) children may be displaced from their par-
ents or legal guardians as a result of national disas-
ters such as hurricanes and floods; 
‘‘(7) sex offenders pose a threat to children that 
increases as more offenders are released into the 
Nation’s communities each year; and 
‘‘(8) The National Center for Missing and Ex-
ploited Children— 
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‘‘(A) serves as the national resource center 
and clearinghouse; 
‘‘(B) works in partnership with the De-
partment of Justice, the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, the United States Marshals Service, 
the Department of the Treasury, the Depart-
ment of State, the Department of Homeland 
Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, the Secret Service, and many 
other agencies in the effort to find missing chil-
dren and prevent child victimization; and 
‘‘(C) operates a national and increasingly 
worldwide network, linking the Center online 
with each of the missing children clearinghouses 
operated by the several States, the District of 
Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as with 
Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom, the 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, INTERPOL 
headquarters in Lyon, France, and others, 
which enable the Center to transmit images and 
information regarding missing and exploited 
children to law enforcement across the United 
States and around the world instantly.’’. 
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SEC. 3. DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATOR. 
Section 404(b) of the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5773(b)) is amended— 
(1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator shall 
annually make a grant to the Center, which shall be 
used to— 
‘‘(A)(i) operate a national 24-hour toll-free 
telephone line by which individuals may report 
information regarding the location of any miss-
ing child, and request information pertaining to 
procedures necessary to reunite such child with 
such child’s legal custodian; and 
‘‘(ii) coordinate the operation of such tele-
phone line with the operation of the national 
communications system referred to in part C of 
the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; 
‘‘(B) operate the official national resource 
center and information clearinghouse for miss-
ing and exploited children; 
‘‘(C) provide to State and local govern-
ments, public and private nonprofit agencies, 
and individuals, information regarding— 
‘‘(i) free or low-cost legal, restaurant, 
lodging, and transportation services that 
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