[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6222 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6222

 To improve the specialized training requirement for Federal personnel 
    who have substantive contact with unaccompanied alien children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2018

   Ms. Meng introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the specialized training requirement for Federal personnel 
    who have substantive contact with unaccompanied alien children.

    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 ``Better Care for Kids Act''.

SEC. 2. SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS REQUIRED.

    Section 235(e) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(e)) is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(e) Training.--The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Attorney 
General shall provide specialized training to all Federal personnel, 
and upon request, State and local personnel, who have substantive 
contact with unaccompanied alien children. Such personnel shall be 
trained to work with unaccompanied children, including identifying 
children who are victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, and 
children for whom asylum or special immigrant relief may be 
appropriate, including children described in subsection (a)(2). Such 
training shall provide best practices that should be used when caring 
for infants and toddlers.''.
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