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110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6096 
To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress annual reports 
on the progress made by the United States in negotiating 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, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 20, 2008 
Mr. LAMPSON (for himself, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GENE 
GREEN of Texas, Mr. KAGEN, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, 
and Mr. POE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress 
annual reports on the progress made by the United 
States in negotiating 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, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Child 
Abduction Progress Reports Act’’. 
SEC. 2. 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. 
(b) REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES.—(1) 
Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) the status of efforts in each country to 
prohibit international child abduction, including— 
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‘‘(A) efforts to expedite the return of chil-
dren to the country of their habitual residence; 
and 
‘‘(B) the extent to which the country re-
spects the rights of custody and of access under 
the laws of other countries.’’. 
(2) Section 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(b)) is amended by inserting after 
the sixth sentence the following: ‘‘Each report under this 
section shall include information on the status of efforts 
in each country to prohibit international child abduction, 
including efforts to expedite the return of children to the 
country of their habitual residence and the extent to which 
the country respects the rights of custody and of access 
under the laws of other countries.’’. 
(c) 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. 
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SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR EXTRADITION. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for each of 
fiscal years 2009 through 2012 such funds as may be nec-
essary for the costs of extraditing individuals from foreign 
countries to the United States for violations of laws in 
the United States by reason of unlawfully removing a child 
from the child’s custodial parent. 
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