[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2850 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2850

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
    require better reporting of unidentified persons, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 6, 1997

  Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin (for himself, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Lantos, Mr. 
Franks of New Jersey, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, 
Mr. Frost, Mr. Dooley of California, Mr. Luther, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. 
    Kind) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
    require better reporting of unidentified persons, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Jennifer's Law Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. JENNIFER'S LAW.

    (a) Grant Reduction for Noncompliance.--Section 506 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Information Access.--
            ``(1) In general.--The funds available under this subpart 
        for a State shall be reduced by 10 percent and redistributed 
        under paragraph (3) unless the State substantially complies 
        with the rules made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Reporting Requirements.--The Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation shall make rules--
                    ``(A) requiring immediate reporting by a State's 
                authorities of every unidentified person (alive or 
                deceased), regardless of age, found in that State's 
                jurisdiction, to the National Crime Information Center 
                and to the State's law enforcement authorities;
                    ``(B) requiring the subsequent entry of a complete 
                profile of the unidentified person, as provided by the 
                Department of Justice for the National Crime 
                Information Center Missing and Unidentified Persons 
                File, including, if available, dental records, x-rays, 
                and fingerprints;
                    ``(C) requiring the entry of a National Crime 
                Information Center number or other appropriate number 
                on all unidentified's persons' death certificates;
                    ``(D) requiring the retention of all such records 
                pertaining to unidentified persons in the National 
                Crime Information Center and with appropriate State 
                agencies until the person is identified; and
                    ``(E) to achieve greater ease in cross referencing 
                indexes of missing persons with those of unidentified 
                persons.
            ``(3) Redistribution.--Any funds available for 
        redistribution shall be redistributed to participating States 
        that have in effect a law referred to in paragraph (1).
            ``(4) Compliance.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        shall issue regulations to ensure compliance with the 
        requirements of paragraph (1), including a requirement that any 
        charge for making available such information may not exceed the 
        actual cost of making such information available.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 506(a) of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by striking 
``subsection (f),'' and inserting ``subsections (f) and (g),''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the first day of each fiscal year succeeding the first 
fiscal year beginning 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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