To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to better enable law enforcement to identify, locate, and recover child victims of sex trafficking.

Bill: 113-hr-3081
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2013-09-11
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims

Crimes against children

Human trafficking

Law enforcement administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2013-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-09-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to require funds from the annual grant by the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to be used to provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies and first responders in identifying, locating, and recovering victims of child sex trafficking.</p> <ul> <ul> </ul> </ul> <br />

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3081 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 11, 2013 Mr. Walberg introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Missing Children’s Assistance Act to better enable law enforcement to identify, locate, and recover child victims of sex trafficking.

1. Amendment to the Missing Children’s Assistance Act Section 404(b)(1) of the Missing Children’s Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5773(b)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (R) by striking at the end and ; (2) in subparagraph (S) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (T) provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies and first responders in identifying, locating, and recovering victims of child sex trafficking. .