[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1537 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1537

To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
  2008 to transfer the custody of an unaccompanied alien child to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services or such child's parent or legal 
                               guardian.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2023

  Mr. Burgess (for himself, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
Weber of Texas, and Mr. Crenshaw) 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 Act of 
  2008 to transfer the custody of an unaccompanied alien child to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services or such child's parent or legal 
                               guardian.

    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 an Alien child's 
Reasonable Expectation of No Trafficking Act of 2023'' or the ``PARENT 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING SAFE AND SECURE PLACEMENTS FOR CHILDREN.

    Section 235(b)(3) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(b)(3)) shall be 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) Transfers of unaccompanied alien children.--Not later 
        than 72 hours after determining that a child is an 
        unaccompanied alien child, any department or agency of the 
        Federal Government that has an unaccompanied alien child in 
        custody shall only transfer the custody of such child to such 
        child's verified parent or legal guardian or to the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services.''.
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