International Child Abduction Progress Reports Act

International Child Abduction Progress Reports Act - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on progress made by the United States in negotiating and entering into bilateral treaties (or other international agreements) relating to international child abduction with countries that are not parties to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include information on efforts to prohibit international child abduction in the annual human rights and security assistance reports to Congress.

Directs the Attorney General to report annually to Congress respecting each case involving a request for extradition to the United States of an individual alleged to have violated international parental kidnapping provisions.

Authorizes appropriations for extraditing individuals from foreign countries to the United States for violations of U.S. laws by unlawfully removing a child from the child's custodial parent.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 6096 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6096

To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress annual reports 
on the progress made by the United States in negotiating international 
  agreements relating to international child abduction with countries 
 that are not contracting parties to the Hague Convention on the Civil 
   Aspects of International Child Abduction, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2008

 Mr. Lampson (for himself, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Gene 
Green of Texas, Mr. Kagen, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Udall of Colorado, and Mr. 
Poe) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress annual reports 
on the progress made by the United States in negotiating international 
  agreements relating to international child abduction with countries 
 that are not contracting parties to the Hague Convention on the Civil 
   Aspects of International Child Abduction, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``International Child Abduction 
Progress Reports Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION.

    (a) Report on Progress in Negotiating Bilateral Treaties With Non-
Hague Convention Countries.--The Secretary of State shall prepare and 
submit to the Congress an annual report on progress made by the United 
States in negotiating and entering into bilateral treaties (or other 
international agreements) relating to international child abduction 
with countries that are not contracting parties to the Hague Convention 
on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
    (b) Report on Human Rights Practices.--(1) Section 116(d) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and'' at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (B) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) the status of efforts in each country to prohibit 
        international child abduction, including--
                    ``(A) efforts to expedite the return of children to 
                the country of their habitual residence; and
                    ``(B) the extent to which the country respects the 
                rights of custody and of access under the laws of other 
                countries.''.
    (2) Section 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2304(b)) is amended by inserting after the sixth sentence the 
following: ``Each report under this section shall include information 
on the status of efforts in each country to prohibit international 
child abduction, including efforts to expedite the return of children 
to the country of their habitual residence and the extent to which the 
country respects the rights of custody and of access under the laws of 
other countries.''.
    (c) Report on Enforcement of Section 1204 of Title 18, United 
States Code.--The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary 
of State, shall prepare and submit to the Congress an annual report 
that contains a description of the status of each case involving a 
request during the preceding year for extradition to the United States 
of an individual alleged to have violated section 1204 of title 18, 
United States Code.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR EXTRADITION.

    There are authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 
2009 through 2012 such funds as may be necessary for the costs of 
extraditing individuals from foreign countries to the United States for 
violations of laws in the United States by reason of unlawfully 
removing a child from the child's custodial parent.
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