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Calendar No. 27
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 249
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A BILL
To provide funding for the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for
other purposes.
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March 4, 1999
Reported with an amendment
Calendar No. 27
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 249
To provide funding for the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 19, 1999
Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. DeWine, and Mr. Grams) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary
March 4, 1999
Reported by Mr. Hatch, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
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A BILL
To provide funding for the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for
other purposes.
<DELETED> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</DELETED>
<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act may be cited as the ``Missing, Exploited, and
Runaway Children Protection Act''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 2. NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED
CHILDREN.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Findings.--Section 402 of the Missing Children's
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771) is amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and'' at the
end;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ``; and''; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(9) for 14 years, the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children has--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(A) served as the national resource
center and clearinghouse congressionally mandated under
the provisions of the Missing Children's Assistance Act
of 1984; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B) worked in partnership with the
Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, the
Department of State, and many other agencies in the
effort to find missing children and prevent child
victimization;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(10) Congress has given the Center, which is a
private non-profit corporation, access to the National Crime
Information Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications
System;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(11) since 1987, the Center has operated the
National Child Pornography Tipline, in conjunction with the
United States Customs Service and the United States Postal
Inspection Service and, beginning this year, the Center
established a new CyberTipline on child exploitation, thus
becoming `the 911 for the Internet';</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(12) in light of statistics that time is of the
essence in cases of child abduction, the Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in February of 1997 created a
new NCIC child abduction (`CA') flag to provide the Center
immediate notification in the most serious cases, resulting in
642 `CA' notifications to the Center and helping the Center to
have its highest recovery rate in history;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(13) the Center has established a national and
increasingly worldwide network, linking the Center online with
each of the missing children clearinghouses operated by the 50
States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as
with Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France, and
others, which has enabled the Center to transmit images and
information regarding missing children to law enforcement
across the United States and around the world
instantly;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(14) from its inception in 1984 through March
31, 1998, the Center has--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(A) handled 1,203,974 calls through its
24-hour toll-free hotline (1-800-THE-LOST) and
currently averages 700 calls per day;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B) trained 146,284 law enforcement,
criminal and juvenile justice, and healthcare
professionals in child sexual exploitation and missing
child case detection, identification, investigation,
and prevention;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(C) disseminated 15,491,344 free
publications to citizens and professionals;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(D) worked with law enforcement on the
cases of 59,481 missing children, resulting in the
recovery of 40,180 children;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(15) the demand for the services of the Center
is growing dramatically, as evidenced by the fact that in 1997,
the Center handled 129,100 calls, an all-time record, and by
the fact that its new Internet website (www.missingkids.com)
receives 1,500,000 `hits' every day, and is linked with
hundreds of other websites to provide real-time images of
breaking cases of missing children;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(16) in 1997, the Center provided policy
training to 256 police chiefs and sheriffs from 50 States and
Guam at its new Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement Training
Center;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(17) the programs of the Center have had a
remarkable impact, such as in the fight against infant
abductions in partnership with the healthcare industry, during
which the Center has performed 668 onsite hospital walk-
throughs and inspections, and trained 45,065 hospital
administrators, nurses, and security personnel, and thereby
helped to reduce infant abductions in the United States by 82
percent;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(18) the Center is now playing a significant
role in international child abduction cases, serving as a
representative of the Department of State at cases under The
Hague Convention, and successfully resolving the cases of 343
international child abductions, and providing greater support
to parents in the United States;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(19) the Center is a model of public/private
partnership, raising private sector funds to match
congressional appropriations and receiving extensive private
in-kind support, including advanced technology provided by the
computer industry such as imaging technology used to age the
photographs of long-term missing children and to reconstruct
facial images of unidentified deceased children;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(20) the Center was 1 of only 10 of 300 major
national charities given an A+ grade in 1997 by the American
Institute of Philanthropy; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(21) the Center has been redesignated as the
Nation's missing children clearinghouse and resource center
once every 3 years through a competitive selection process
conducted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention of the Department of Justice, and has received
grants from that Office to conduct the crucial purposes of the
Center.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Definitions.--Section 403 of the Missing Children's
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5772) is amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the
end;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ``; and''; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) the term `Center' means the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Duties and Functions of the Administrator.--Section
404 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5773) is
amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
(d); and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(b) Annual Grant to National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) In general.--The Administrator shall
annually make a grant to the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children, which shall be used to--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(A)(i) operate a national 24-hour toll-
free telephone line by which individuals may report
information regarding the location of any missing
child, or other child 13 years of age or younger whose
whereabouts are unknown to such child's legal
custodian, and request information pertaining to
procedures necessary to reunite such child with such
child's legal custodian; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ii) coordinate the operation of such
telephone line with the operation of the national
communications system referred to in part C of the
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714-
11);</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B) operate the official national
resource center and information clearinghouse for
missing and exploited children;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(C) provide to State and local
governments, public and private nonprofit agencies, and
individuals, information regarding--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(i) free or low-cost legal,
restaurant, lodging, and transportation
services that are available for the benefit of
missing and exploited children and their
families; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ii) the existence and nature of
programs being carried out by Federal agencies
to assist missing and exploited children and
their families;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(D) coordinate public and private
programs that locate, recover, or reunite missing
children with their families;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(E) disseminate, on a national basis,
information relating to innovative and model programs,
services, and legislation that benefit missing and
exploited children;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(F) provide technical assistance and
training to law enforcement agencies, State and local
governments, elements of the criminal justice system,
public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals
in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and
treatment of cases involving missing and exploited
children; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(G) provide assistance to families and
law enforcement agencies in locating and recovering
missing and exploited children, both nationally and
internationally.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out
this subsection, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(c) National Incidence Studies.--The Administrator,
either by making grants to or entering into contracts with public
agencies or nonprofit private agencies, shall--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) periodically conduct national incidence
studies to determine for a given year the actual number of
children reported missing each year, the number of children who
are victims of abduction by strangers, the number of children
who are the victims of parental kidnapings, and the number of
children who are recovered each year; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) provide to State and local governments,
public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals
information to facilitate the lawful use of school records and
birth certificates to identify and locate missing
children.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (d) National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.--
Section 405(a) of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
5775(a)) is amended by inserting ``the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children and with'' before ``public agencies''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 408 of the
Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5777) is amended by
striking ``1997 through 2001'' and inserting ``1999 through
2004''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (f) Repeal of Obsolete Reporting Requirements.--Section
409 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5778) is
repealed.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 3. RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Findings.--Section 302 of the Runaway and Homeless
Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701) is amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``accurate
reporting of the problem nationally and to develop'' and
inserting ``an accurate national reporting system to report the
problem, and to assist in the development of''; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) by striking paragraph (8) and inserting the
following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(8) services for runaway and homeless youth are
needed in urban, suburban and rural areas;''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Authority To Make Grants for Centers and Services.--
Section 311 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5711) is
amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the
following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(a) Grants for Centers and Services.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall make grants
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