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On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3695) to authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 3695 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Help Find the Missing Act'' or ``Billy's Law''. SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM. (a) In General.--The Attorney General, through the Director of the National Institute of Justice, is authorized to maintain public databases, known as the ``National Missing and Unidentified Persons System'' or ``NamUs'', to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases for purposes of assisting to identify missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains.…
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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