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H.R. 2518 110th Congress House

Bring Our Children Home Act

Official title: To implement certain measures to increase the effectiveness of international child abduction remedies, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 24, 2007 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Jul 24, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
Jun 25, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Jun 25, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
May 25, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
May 24, 2007
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 24, 2007
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 24, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Bring Our Children Home Act - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition of "missing child."

Requires the Attorney General to provide state and local law enforcement agencies with information for locating a child from a foreign country who has been abducted and is believed to be in the United States.

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require state missing children reports to include a statement specifying whether a missing child is believed to have been taken outside of the United States.

Amends the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to provide funding for legal and technical assistance and training relating to international child abduction.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the efforts of foreign countries to prohibit international child abduction.

Requires the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to Congress on the cooperation of domestic and foreign airlines with the investigation of international child abduction cases.

Authorizes additional funds for the investigation and prosecution of international parental kidnapping and for the extradition of individuals from foreign countries to the United States for violations of child abduction laws.

Establishes a grant program to reimburse travel costs related to the return of abducted children to the United States.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 5745 To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the definition of missing child for purposes of that Act.
  • HR 6095 International and Parental Child Abduction Remedies Assistance Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 5
D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Jun 21, 2007
 D
Cuellar, Henry
Texas · May 24, 2007
 D
Green, Al
Texas · May 24, 2007
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Lofgren, Zoe
California · May 24, 2007
Mitchell, Harry
· May 24, 2007
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Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · May 24, 2007
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2518: Bring Our Children Home Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2518/
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"H.R. 2518: Bring Our Children Home Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2518/.
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H.R. 2518, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2518/.
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