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Skylar's Law

Introduced: December 7, 2017 See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Dec 7, 2017

Introduced in Senate

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Skylar's Law

This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a national endangered missing advisory communications network—the EMA Network—to support regional and local search efforts for missing individuals.

The EMA Network must operate in coordination with the AMBER Alert communications network (i.e., the communications network that supports search efforts for abducted children).

What's happening now December 7, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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