Bring Our Children Home Act

Bill: 110-hr-2518
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-22]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Airlines
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Custody of children
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Extradition
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Human rights
Immigration
International Affairs
International cooperation
Kidnapping
Law
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal fees
Missing children
Negotiations
Prosecution
Repatriation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Treaties
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Bring Our Children Home Act - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition of &quot;missing child.&quot;

Requires the Attorney General to provide state and local law enforcement agencies with information for locating a child from a foreign country who has been abducted and is believed to be in the United States. 

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require state missing children reports to include a statement specifying whether a missing child is believed to have been taken outside of the United States. 

Amends the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to provide funding for legal and technical assistance and training relating to international child abduction. 

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the efforts of foreign countries to prohibit international child abduction.

Requires the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to Congress on the cooperation of domestic and foreign airlines with the investigation of international child abduction cases.

Authorizes additional funds for the investigation and prosecution of international parental kidnapping and for the extradition of individuals from foreign countries to the United States for violations of child abduction laws.

Establishes a grant program to reimburse travel costs related to the return of abducted children to the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House