Title: National Child Identification Assistance Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
National Child Identification Assistance Act
This bill amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to add findings: (1) that the collection and storage of children's identification information by law enforcement is resource intensive, and (2) that the National Child Identification Program partners with law enforcement agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community organizations to provide in-home fingerprint identification kits to families and promotes the proactive in-home collection and storage of identification information.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3884 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3884

  To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act with respect to the 
                 National Child Identification Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2017

Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida (for himself and Mr. Crist) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act with respect to the 
                 National Child Identification Program.

    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 ``National Child Identification 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 402 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 
11291) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and 
        (10) as paragraphs (8), (9), (10), (11), and (12), 
        respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) the proactive collection and central storage of 
        comprehensive identification information about individual 
        children by local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies 
        is resource intensive;
            ``(7) the National Child Identification Program--
                    ``(A) is a national community service initiative 
                that has partnered with the Department of Justice, 
                Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
                local law enforcement agencies, nonprofit 
                organizations, and community organizations to provide 
                families with inkless, in-home fingerprint 
                identification kits; and
                    ``(B) promotes the proactive collection and storage 
                of comprehensive identification information within the 
                home, decentralizing the process for law enforcement 
                agencies that often lack the resources to collect and 
                centrally store vital identification information 
                related to individual children;''.
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