[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 2517 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2517

                       One Hundred Tenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and eight


                                 An Act


 
      To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize 
                 appropriations; 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 ``Protecting Our Children Comes First 
Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
    Section 402 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5771) is amended to read as follows:
    ``SEC. 402. FINDINGS.
    ``The Congress finds that--
        ``(1) each year thousands of children are abducted or removed 
    from the control of a parent having legal custody without such 
    parent's consent, under circumstances which immediately place the 
    child in grave danger;
        ``(2) many missing children are at great risk of both physical 
    harm and sexual exploitation;
        ``(3) in many cases, parents and local law enforcement 
    officials have neither the resources nor the expertise to mount 
    expanded search efforts;
        ``(4) abducted children are frequently moved from one locality 
    to another, requiring the cooperation and coordination of local, 
    State, and Federal law enforcement efforts;
        ``(5) growing numbers of children are the victims of child 
    sexual exploitation, increasingly involving the use of new 
    technology to access the Internet;
        ``(6) children may be separated from their parents or legal 
    guardians as a result of national disasters such as hurricanes and 
    floods;
        ``(7) sex offenders pose a threat to children;
        ``(8) the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
    administers programs under this Act through the Child Protection 
    Division, including programs which prevent or address offenses 
    committed against vulnerable children and which support missing 
    children's organizations; and
        ``(9) a key component of such programs is the National Center 
    for Missing and Exploited Children, which--
            ``(A) serves as a national resource center and 
        clearinghouse;
            ``(B) works in partnership with the Department of Justice, 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshals 
        Service, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of 
        State, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the 
        United States Secret Service, the United States Postal 
        Inspection Service, and many other agencies in the effort to 
        find missing children and prevent child victimization; and
            ``(C) operates a national 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 international organizations, including 
        Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom, the Royal Canadian Mounted 
        Police, INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France, and others, 
        which enable the Center to transmit images and information 
        regarding missing and exploited children to law enforcement 
        across the United States and around the world instantly.''.
SEC. 3. DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATOR.
    Section 404(b) of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5773(b)) is amended--
        (1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
        ``(1) In general.--The Administrator shall annually make a 
    grant to the Center, which shall be used to--
            ``(A)(i) operate a national 24-hour toll-free telephone 
        line by which individuals may report information regarding the 
        location of any missing child, and request information 
        pertaining to procedures necessary to reunite such child with 
        such child's legal custodian; and
            ``(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);
            ``(B) operate the official national resource center and 
        information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children;
            ``(C) provide to State and local governments, and public 
        and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals, information 
        regarding--
                ``(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
                ``(ii) the existence and nature of programs being 
            carried out by Federal agencies to assist missing and 
            exploited children and their families;
            ``(D) coordinate public and private programs that locate, 
        recover, or reunite missing children with their families;
            ``(E) disseminate, on a national basis, information 
        relating to innovative and model programs, services, and 
        legislation that benefit missing and exploited children;
            ``(F) based solely on reports received by the National 
        Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and not 
        involving any data collection by NCMEC other than the receipt 
        of those reports, annually provide to the Department of 
        Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
        Prevention--
                ``(i) the number of children nationwide who are 
            reported to NCMEC as missing;
                ``(ii) the number of children nationwide who are 
            reported to NCMEC as victims of non-family abductions;
                ``(iii) the number of children nationwide who are 
            reported to NCMEC as victims of parental kidnappings; and
                ``(iv) the number of children recovered nationwide 
            whose recovery was reported to NCMEC;
            ``(G) provide, at the request of State and local 
        governments, and public and private nonprofit agencies, 
        guidance on how to facilitate the lawful use of school records 
        and birth certificates to identify and locate missing children;
            ``(H) 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;
            ``(I) provide assistance to families and law enforcement 
        agencies in locating and recovering missing and exploited 
        children, both nationally and, in cooperation with the 
        Department of State, internationally;
            ``(J) provide analytical support and technical assistance 
        to law enforcement agencies through searching public records 
        databases in locating and recovering missing and exploited 
        children and helping to locate and identify abductors;
            ``(K) provide direct on-site technical assistance and 
        consultation to law enforcement agencies in child abduction and 
        exploitation cases;
            ``(L) provide forensic technical assistance and 
        consultation to law enforcement and other agencies in the 
        identification of unidentified deceased children through facial 
        reconstruction of skeletal remains and similar techniques;
            ``(M) track the incidence of attempted child abductions in 
        order to identify links and patterns, and provide such 
        information to law enforcement agencies;
            ``(N) provide training and assistance to law enforcement 
        agencies in identifying and locating non-compliant sex 
        offenders;
            ``(O) facilitate the deployment of the National Emergency 
        Child Locator Center to assist in reuniting missing children 
        with their families during periods of national disasters;
            ``(P) operate a cyber tipline to provide online users and 
        electronic service providers an effective means of reporting 
        Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the areas of--
                ``(i) possession, manufacture, and distribution of 
            child pornography;
                ``(ii) online enticement of children for sexual acts;
                ``(iii) child prostitution;
                ``(iv) sex tourism involving children;
                ``(v) extrafamilial child sexual molestation;
                ``(vi) unsolicited obscene material sent to a child;
                ``(vii) misleading domain names; and
                ``(viii) misleading words or digital images on the 
            Internet,
        and subsequently to transmit such reports, including relevant 
        images and information, to the appropriate international, 
        Federal, State or local law enforcement agency for 
        investigation;
            ``(Q) work with law enforcement, Internet service 
        providers, electronic payment service providers, and others on 
        methods to reduce the distribution on the Internet of images 
        and videos of sexually exploited children;
            ``(R) operate a child victim identification program in 
        order to assist the efforts of law enforcement agencies in 
        identifying victims of child pornography and other sexual 
        crimes; and
            ``(S) develop and disseminate programs and information to 
        the general public, schools, public officials, youth-serving 
        organizations, and nonprofit organizations, directly or through 
        grants or contracts with public agencies and public and private 
        nonprofit organizations, on--
                ``(i) the prevention of child abduction and sexual 
            exploitation; and
                ``(ii) internet safety.''; and
        (2) in paragraph (2) by striking ``$20,000,000'' and all that 
    follows through ``2008'', and inserting ``$40,000,000 for fiscal 
    year 2008 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2009 
    through 2013''.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
    Section 408(a) of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5777(a)) is amended by striking ``2007 through 2008'' and inserting 
``2008 through 2013''.
SEC. 5. REPEALER.
    The Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771 et seq.) is 
amended--
        (1) by striking section 407; and
        (2) by redesignating section 408 as section 407.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.