Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1115
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-26
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare

Crime victims

Crimes against children

Criminal justice information and records

Human trafficking

Law enforcement administration and funding

Sex offenses
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015</b></p> <p>Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to require the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to be used (among other things) to operate a cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the area of child sex trafficking (currently, child prostitution).</p> <p>Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require each state reporting on missing children to: (1) provide, with respect to each missing child report, a recent photograph of the child, if available; (2) direct the law enforcement agency that entered the report into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to verify and update such record with any additional information no later than 30 days after the original entry of the record into the state law enforcement system and NCIC computer networks and to maintain close liaison with state and local child welfare systems for the exchange of information and technical assistance; and (3) grant permission to the NCIC Terminal Contractor for the state to update the missing person record in the NCIC computer networks with additional information learned during the investigation relating to the missing person.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1115 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 26, 2015 Mrs. Beatty (for herself and Mr. Poe of Texas ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary , and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce , 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 A BILL To improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015 . 2. Response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking (a) Missing Children's Assistance Act Section 404(b)(1)(P)(iii) of the Missing Children's Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5773(b)(1)(P)(iii) ) is amended by striking child prostitution and inserting child sex trafficking . (b) Crime Control Act of 1990 Section 3702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 5780 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (3)— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: (B) a recent photograph of the child, if available; ; and (3) in paragraph (4)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 60 days and inserting 30 days ; (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; (C) in subparagraph (C)— (i) by inserting State and local child welfare systems and before the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ; and (ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (D) by adding at the end the following: (D) grant permission to the National Crime Information Center Terminal Contractor for the State to update the missing person record in the National Crime Information Center computer networks with additional information learned during the investigation relating to the missing person. .