[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1201 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1201

  To prohibit law enforcement agencies from imposing a waiting period 
before accepting reports of missing persons between the ages of 18 and 
                                  21.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 1999

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit law enforcement agencies from imposing a waiting period 
before accepting reports of missing persons between the ages of 18 and 
                                  21.

    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 ``Suzanne's Law''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING AND WAITING PERIODS FOR MISSING YOUTH.

    Section 3702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 5780) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
        (3) and (4), respectively:
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) ensure that no law enforcement agency within the 
        State establishes or maintains any policy that requires the 
        observance of any waiting period before accepting a missing 
        youth report;'';
            (3) in paragraph (3) (as redesignated), by striking ``such 
        report'' and inserting ``report described in paragraph (1)'';
            (4) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated), by striking 
        ``paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``paragraph (3)'';
            (5) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``Each 
        State''; and
            (6) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Missing Youth.--In this section, the term `missing youth' 
means any individual of at least 18 years of age and no older than 21 
years of age--
            ``(1) whose whereabouts are unknown; and
            ``(2)(A) who is physically or mentally disabled;
            ``(B) who may be in the company of another person under 
        circumstances indicating that such individual's physical safety 
        is in danger; or
            ``(C) whose disappearance is surrounded by circumstances 
        that indicate that the disappearance may have been 
        involuntary.''.
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