H.R. 2096 — Introduced in House

I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2096 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 14, 2017Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Conyers, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Wilson of Florida, and Ms. Jayapal) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 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. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Missing Children’s Assistance Amendment Act of 2017. 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). .