Missing Persons and Runaway Youth Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that conventional law enforcement agencies are totally unable to cope with the problem of the increased number of persons who leave their homes.
Title I: Establishes in the Office of the Attorney General a Bureau of Missing Persons. Requires such Bureau to locate all such missing persons reported to it and to return such persons to the law enforcement agency from which the initial report was received.
Title II: Requires that the Director of the Bureau be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Provides for the personnel and administration of the Bureau.
Title III: Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to gather information, develop a comprehensive program, and report to Congress no later than December 31, 1974, on the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States and on the causes of and possible methods of dealing with the runaway youth phenomenon.
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than December 31, 1974, on the desirability of current procedures and of new programs to deal with the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States.
Authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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