Bring Our Children Home Act

Bill: 108-hr-3941
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2004-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Computers
Confidential communications
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Court records
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Custody of children
Data banks
Detention of persons
Directories
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Extradition
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Human rights
International Affairs
Internet
Judges
Judicial officers
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Law
Lawyers
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal fees
Legal services
Missing children
Negotiations
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
State courts
State employees
State laws
Tax returns
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Bring Our Children Home Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide that a contestant may bring an action in U.S. district court to resolve conflicting child custody determinations. 
Directs the Attorney General to establish a registry of child custody and visitation orders and proceedings. 
Authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to hold any child listed as missing for a proper custody disposition. 
Amends the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to require the U.S. Central Authority under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction to establish a funding program for the provision of legal services to persons seeking remedies in interstate or international parental kidnapping cases. Authorizes the Legal Services Corporation to provide Convention-related legal assistance to qualified aliens. Requires the Central Authority to encourage the designation of courts to hear Convention-related cases. 
Amends the Federal judicial code to require the Federal Judicial Center to include in its continuing education programs information on the Convention and related laws. 
 
Requires various reports relating to international child abduction. 
Requires the Attorney General to support, through specified activities, the adoption and implementation in the States of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. 
Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 to expand the Safe Havens for Children Pilot Program to include children at risk of parental kidnapping. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize the disclosure of taxpayer identity information to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Introduced in House