Bring Our Children Home Act

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 110th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

D LampsonSponsor

34 cosponsors · 30 D, 4 R

27 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Bring Our Children Home Act - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition of "missing child."

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 24, 2007

Bring Our Children Home Act - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition of "missing child."

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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Bring Our Children Home Act

Latest action (Jul 24, 2007): Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement · Origin: House · Introduced: May 24, 2007

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.