H.R. 3884 – Reading Mode

115th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3884

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 28, 2017

Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida (for himself and Mr. Crist) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

A BILL

To amend the Missing Children’s Assistance Act with respect to the National Child Identification Program.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the National Child Identification Assistance Act.

Amendments

Section 402 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 11291) is amended—

(1)

by redesignating paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) as paragraphs (8), (9), (10), (11), and (12), respectively; and

(2)

by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:

(6)

the proactive collection and central storage of comprehensive identification information about individual children by local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies is resource intensive;

(7)

the National Child Identification Program—

(A)

is a national community service initiative that has partnered with the Department of Justice, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, local law enforcement agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community organizations to provide families with inkless, in-home fingerprint identification kits; and

(B)

promotes the proactive collection and storage of comprehensive identification information within the home, decentralizing the process for law enforcement agencies that often lack the resources to collect and centrally store vital identification information related to individual children;