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H.R. 3905

To improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking.

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).

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.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3](D-OH)Sponsor
17 cosponsors13 D4 R
17cosponsors2committees6actions2related bills7subjects
  • Introduced in HouseJan 16, 2014
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    Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

  2. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Introduced in House

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    Introduced in House

To improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking. — Informed