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Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015

Introduced: February 26, 2015 Introduced by: Beatty, Joyce Democratic · Ohio See on congress.gov
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Apr 21, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Feb 26, 2015
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Feb 26, 2015
Introduced in House
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Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015

Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to require the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to be used (among other things) to operate a cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the area of child sex trafficking (currently, child prostitution).

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require each state reporting on missing children to: (1) provide, with respect to each missing child report, a recent photograph of the child, if available; (2) direct the law enforcement agency that entered the report into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to verify and update such record with any additional information no later than 30 days after the original entry of the record into the state law enforcement system and NCIC computer networks and to maintain close liaison with state and local child welfare systems for the exchange of information and technical assistance; and (3) grant permission to the NCIC Terminal Contractor for the state to update the missing person record in the NCIC computer networks with additional information learned during the investigation relating to the missing person.

What's happening now April 21, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

 Related & companion bills 4
  • HR 246 Related bill To improve the response to victims of child sex trafficking.
  • S 178 Related bill Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015
  • HR 1779 Related bill Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act of 2015
  • S 381 Identical bill Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1115: Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1115/
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"H.R. 1115: Bringing Missing Children Home Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1115/.
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H.R. 1115, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1115/.
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