[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5745 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5745

To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition 
               of missing child for purposes of that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2008

 Mr. Lampson (for himself, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Gene 
Green of Texas, Mr. Kagen, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Udall of Colorado, and Mr. 
Poe) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
                         on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition 
               of missing child for purposes of that Act.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE MISSING CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE ACT.

    Section 403(1) of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5772(1)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by striking 
        ``whose whereabouts are unknown to such individual's legal 
        custodian if'',
            (2) in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C)--
                    (A) by redesignating such subparagraphs as clauses 
                (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively, and
                    (B) by indenting the left margin of such 
                subparagraphs 2 ems to the right,
            (3) by inserting before clause (i), as so redesignated, the 
        following:
                    ``(A) whose whereabouts are unknown to such 
                individual's legal custodian if--'', and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) whose whereabouts are known to such 
                individual's legal custodian from whose control such 
                child--
                            ``(i) was removed in violation of law; or
                            ``(ii) is believed by such custodian to 
                        have been taken out of the United States 
                        without the consent of such custodian by, or 
                        for the benefit of, an individual who may 
                        possibly claim custodial rights with respect to 
                        such child;''.
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