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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Missing children</title>
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  <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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  <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/4866</id>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2517/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/action/158887</id>
    <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-240.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2517/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/action/158886</id>
    <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2517/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-23:/action/158885</id>
    <updated>2008-05-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 23, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2517/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-20:/action/158343</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 20, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.1142 Recognizing May 25, 2008, as National Missing Children's Day.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr1142/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-23:/action/150880</id>
    <updated>2008-04-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Recognizing May 25, 2008, as National Missing Children's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5464 A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5464/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-14:/action/145769</id>
    <updated>2008-02-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4498 Tory Jo's Loophole AMBER Response Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4498/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-12:/action/139487</id>
    <updated>2007-12-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title III of the PROTECT Act to modify the standards for the issuance of alerts through the AMBER Alert communications network to assist in facilitating the recovery of abducted newborns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3791 Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3791/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-10:/action/132018</id>
    <updated>2007-10-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1829 Protect our Children First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1829/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-19:/action/123289</id>
    <updated>2007-07-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize programs under the Missing Children's Assistance Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2517/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-24:/action/113961</id>
    <updated>2007-05-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2518 Bring Our Children Home Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2518/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-24:/action/113963</id>
    <updated>2007-05-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To implement certain measures to increase the effectiveness of international child abduction remedies, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1684 Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1684/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-26:/action/107247</id>
    <updated>2007-03-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1582 Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1582/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-20:/action/96960</id>
    <updated>2007-03-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.923 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h923/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-08:/action/106823</id>
    <updated>2007-02-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.535 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s535/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-08:/action/107153</id>
    <updated>2007-02-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and an Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Investigative Office in the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.876 Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h876/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-07:/action/92871</id>
    <updated>2007-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.519 Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s519/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-07:/action/92974</id>
    <updated>2007-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.456 Prevention Resources for Eliminating Criminal Activity Using Tailored Interventions in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s456/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-01-31:/action/92363</id>
    <updated>2007-01-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.257 Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-01-05:/action/91162</id>
    <updated>2007-01-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.4416 To reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h4416/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-12-20:/action/87720</id>
    <updated>2006-12-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 20, 2006: Signed by President.    </content>
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