National Child Identification Act of 2019

National Child Identification Act of 2019

This bill permits the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants for local law enforcement to distribute in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits to families. These kits can be turned over to law enforcement to assist in locating missing or trafficked children.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4172 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4172

To use grant funds to provide identification kits to certain children, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 2019

Mr. Norcross (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To use grant funds to provide identification kits to certain children, 
                        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 ``National Child Identification Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION KITS FOR MISSING CHILDREN.

    (a) Findings.--Section 402 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 11291) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (6), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) the proactive collection and central storage of 
        comprehensive identification information about individual 
        children by local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies 
        is resource intensive; and
            ``(9) the National Child Identification Program, known as 
        `Safety Blitz'--
                    ``(A) is a national community service initiative 
                that has partnered with the Department of Justice, 
                Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
                local law enforcement agencies, nonprofit 
                organizations, and community organizations to provide 
                families with an inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA 
                identification kit, which can be turned over to law 
                enforcement, by the parent or guardian of a child to 
                provide information on a missing or trafficked child; 
                and
                    ``(B) promotes the proactive collection and storage 
                of comprehensive identification information within the 
                home, decentralizing the process for law enforcement 
                agencies that often lack the resources to collect and 
                centrally store vital identification information 
                related to individual children.''.
    (b) Grants.--Section 405 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 11294) is amended by--
            (1) redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9) as 
        paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10), respectively; and
            (2) inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) to provide to local law enforcement, for distribution 
        to parents of children who attend kindergarten or elementary 
        school (as such term is defined in section 8101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965), inkless, in-
        home fingerprint and DNA identification kits, which can be 
        turned over to Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement 
        in an effort to locate and return missing or trafficked 
        children;''.
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