[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2146 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2146

    To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
   Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require the Secretary of Homeland 
  Security to provide notice to State authorities when unaccompanied 
                alien children are placed in that State.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2017

  Mr. Roe of Tennessee (for himself, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Kustoff of 
Tennessee, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. DesJarlais, and 
 Mrs. Black) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
   Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require the Secretary of Homeland 
  Security to provide notice to State authorities when unaccompanied 
                alien children are placed in that State.

    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 ``Unaccompanied Alien Children 
Placement Transparency Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. HHS NOTIFICATION OF STATE AUTHORITIES.

    Section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Reporting Requirement.--In the case of an unaccompanied alien 
child who is in Federal custody by reason of the child's immigration 
status, the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall provide the Governor and each appropriate 
agency of a State, not later than 60 days after that child is placed 
into the care of a custodian located in such State--
            ``(1) any available medical records for the child, if the 
        child will be attending public schools in that State;
            ``(2) the physical address and immigration status of the 
        custodian of the child;
            ``(3) any Federal public benefit (as such term is defined 
        in section 411(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
        Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611)) that 
        the child will receive; and
            ``(4) any Federal public benefit that the custodian of the 
        child will receive that the custodian would not receive except 
        for having custody of the child.''.
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