National Child Identification Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-4798
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-05
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims

Crimes against children

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Criminal justice information and records

Human trafficking

Missing persons
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>National Child Identification Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill permits the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants for local law enforcement to distribute in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits to families. These kits can be turned over to law enforcement to assist in locating missing or trafficked children.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4798 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 5, 2020 Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To use grant funds to provide identification kits to certain children, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Child Identification Act of 2019 . 2. Identification kits for missing children (a) Findings Section 402 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 ( 34 U.S.C. 11291 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (6), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and (3) by adding after paragraph (7) the following: (8) the proactive collection and central storage of comprehensive identification information about individual children by local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies is resource intensive; and (9) the National Child Identification Program, known as Safety Blitz — (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 an inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kit, which can be turned over to law enforcement, by the parent or guardian of a child to provide information on a missing or trafficked child; 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. . (b) Grants Section 405 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 ( 34 U.S.C. 11294 ) is amended by— (1) redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9) as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10), respectively; and (2) inserting after paragraph (4) the following: (5) to provide to local law enforcement, for distribution to parents of children who attend kindergarten or elementary school (as such term is defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965), inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits, which can be turned over to Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement in an effort to locate and return missing or trafficked children; .