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International and Parental Child Abduction Remedies Assistance Act

Introduced: May 20, 2008 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 28, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Jul 28, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
May 20, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
May 20, 2008
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

International and Parental Child Abduction Remedies Assistance Act - Directs the Attorney General to provide state and local law enforcement agencies information on instituting or assisting investigative searches for alien children believed to be in the United States who are the subject of an application under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction (Convention) or an Interpol yellow notice.

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require missing child 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: (1) provide funding, technical assistance, and training to legal providers to assist victims of parental kidnappings; and (2) allow payment of costs incurred in civil actions to return abducted children.

Authorizes the Legal Services Corporation to use its funding to represent aliens in child abduction proceedings brought in the United States under the Convention.

Amends the federal judicial code to require the Federal Judicial Center to provide training programs for newly appointed judges on laws pertaining to parental kidnapping.

Authorizes additional funding for the investigation and prosecution of international parental kidnapping crimes.

Directs the Director of the Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime to award grants to reimburse parents, guardians, law enforcement, and other appropriate individuals for travel costs related to the safe return of U.S. children who have been abducted and taken to foreign countries.

What's happening now July 28, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

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