S. 1936: A bill to improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking.

113th Congress · introduced 2014-01-16 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Where it came from: introduced 2014-01-16 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] · what a sponsor is
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Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

A bill to improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking.

Plain summary

Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to require the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to be used (among other things) to operate a cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the area of child sex trafficking (currently, child prostitution). Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require each state reporting on missing children to: (1) provide, with respect to each missing child report, a recent photograph of the child, if available; (2) direct the law enforcement agency that entered the report into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to verify and update such record with any additional information no later than 30 days after the original entry of the record into the state law enforcement system and NCIC computer networks and to maintain close liaison with state and local child welfare systems for the exchange of information and technical assistance; and (3) grant permission to the NCIC Terminal Contractor for the state to update the missing person record in the NCIC computer networks with additional information learned during the investigation relating to the missing person.

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Official text

A bill to improve the response to missing children and victims of child sex trafficking.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] · 2 cosponsors

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Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s1936.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>

Record fed-us-cong113-s1936 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113