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Missing Children’s Assistance Amendment Act of 2017

H.R. 2096 · 115th Congress · Apr 14, 2017 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the publication of certain demographic data regarding missing children, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Missing Children’s Assistance Amendment Act of 2017”.

Sec. 2 Demographic data regarding missing children to be published

Section 404(c) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5773(c)) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (1), by striking “and” at the end;
(2)
in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(3)
by adding at the end the following:

“(3) publish an analysis of the information determined under paragraph (1) that includes—

“(A) a disaggregation of such information by such demographic features as the Administrator determines appropriate, including—

“(i) race;

“(ii) ethnicity;

“(iii) gender;

“(iv) sexual orientation; and

“(v) gender identity; and

“(B) analyses of subgroups of missing children that are identified by two or more demographic features by which a disaggregation was made under subparagraph (A).”