S.Amdt. 3559

SA 3559. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle F of title 10, insert
the following:

SEC. 10___. PROHIBITIONS ON PLACEMENT OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN
CHILDREN WITH CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

Section 235(c)(2) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C.
1232(c)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A), in the first sentence, by striking
``Subject to'' and inserting ``Except as provided in
subparagraph (C), and subject to''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(C) Prohibitions on placement of unaccompanied alien
children with certain individuals.--
``(i) Individuals with criminal history.--The Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall not place an unaccompanied
alien child in the custody of any individual has been charged
with or convicted of (or any adult living in the household of
any individual who has been charged with, or convicted of)--

``(I) a sex offense (as defined in section 111(5) of the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (34 U.S.C.
20911(5)));
``(II) a crime involving severe forms of trafficking in
persons (as defined in section 103(11) of the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)));
``(III) a crime of domestic violence (as defined in section
40002(a)(12) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34
U.S.C. 12291(a)(12)));
``(IV) a crime of child abuse and neglect (as defined in
section 3 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
(Public Law 93-247; 42 U.S.C. 5101 note));
``(V) murder, manslaughter, or an attempt to commit murder
or manslaughter (as defined in sections 1111, 1112, and 1113
of title 18, United States Code); or
``(VI) a crime involving sexual exploitation and other
abuse of children (as described in sections 2251, 2251A,
2252, 2252A, 2252B, and 2252C of title 18, United States
Code).

``(ii) Information about individuals with whom children are
placed.--Before placing a child with any individual, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require each
individual with whom the child will be placed and all adult
residents who are or will be living in such individual's
household to be fingerprinted, and shall conduct background
checks based on the biographic and biometric data for each
such individual or adult resident.''.
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