Title: Missing Children's Assistance Amendment Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Missing Children's Assistance Amendment Act of 2017
This bill amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to require the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to analyze and publish certain demographic information with respect to the number of children reported missing each year, the number of such children who are victims of stranger abduction or parental kidnappings, and the number of children who are recovered each year.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2096 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2096

To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to 
 require the publication of certain demographic data regarding missing 
                   children, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2017

    Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Conyers, Mrs. Watson 
Coleman, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Jackson 
     Lee, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Maxine Waters of 
California, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Wilson 
 of Florida, and Ms. Jayapal) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to 
 require the publication of certain demographic data regarding missing 
                   children, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Missing Children's Assistance 
Amendment Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA REGARDING MISSING CHILDREN TO BE PUBLISHED.

    Section 404(c) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5773(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) publish an analysis of the information determined 
        under paragraph (1) that includes--
                    ``(A) a disaggregation of such information by such 
                demographic features as the Administrator determines 
                appropriate, including--
                            ``(i) race;
                            ``(ii) ethnicity;
                            ``(iii) gender;
                            ``(iv) sexual orientation; and
                            ``(v) gender identity; and
                    ``(B) analyses of subgroups of missing children 
                that are identified by two or more demographic features 
                by which a disaggregation was made under subparagraph 
                (A).''.
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