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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-110
IMPROVING SUPPORT FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED
CHILDREN ACT OF 2017
MAY 4, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the
Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1808]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 1808) to amend and improve the Missing
Children's Assistance Act, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Improving Support for Missing and Exploited Chil-
dren Act of 2017.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Section 402 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771) is amend-
ed-
(1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
(1) each year tens of thousands of children run away, or are abducted or re-
moved, from the control of a parent having legal custody without such parent's
consent, under circumstances which immediately place the child in grave dan-
ger;,
(2) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5),
(3) in paragraph (6) by inserting , including child sex trafficking and
sextortion after exploitation,
(4) in paragraph (8) by adding and at the end,
(5) by striking paragraph (9),
(6) by amending paragraph (10) to read as follows:
(10) a key component of such programs is the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children that-
(A) serves as a nonprofit, national resource center and clearinghouse to
provide assistance to victims, families, child-serving professionals, and the
general public;
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