S. 1517: HERO Improvements Act of 2017
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S. 1517: HERO Improvements Act of 2017
115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-29 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-29 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- 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
HERO Improvements Act of 2017
Plain summary
HERO Improvements Act of 2017 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide statutory authority for the Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps Program within the Cyber Crimes Center of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The HERO Child-Rescue Corps Program, operated in partnership with the Department of Defense and the National Association to Protect Children, must recruit, train, equip, and employ wounded, ill, and injured veterans and other members of the military to combat and prevent child exploitation.
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Official text
HERO Improvements Act of 2017
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] · 3 cosponsors
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s1517.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>
Record fed-us-cong115-s1517 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115