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 113 STAT. 1032 PUBLIC LAW 106-71—OCT. 12, 1999 Public Law 106-71 106th Congress An Act Oct. 12, 1999 [S. 249] Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Protection Act. 42 USC 5601 note. To provide funding for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for other purposes. 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 "Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Protection Act". SEC. 2. NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN. (a) FINDINGS.—Section 402 of the Missing Children's Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771) is amended— (1) in paragraph (7), by striking "and" at the end; (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and (3) by adding at the end the following: "(9) for 14 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has— "(A) served as the national resource center and clearinghouse congressionally mandated under the provisions of the Missing Children's Assist£ince Act of 1984; and "(B) worked in partnership with the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and many other agencies in the effort to find missing children and prevent child victimization; "(10) Congress has given the Center, which is a private nonprofit corporation, access to the National Crime Information Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System; "(11) since 1987, the Center has operated the National Child Pornography Tipline, in conjunction with the United States Customs Service and the United States Postal Inspection Service and, beginning this year, the Center established a new CyberTipline on child exploitation, thus becoming 'the 911 for the Internet'; "(12) in light of statistics that time is of the essence in cases of child abduction, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February of 1997 created a new NCIC child abduction CCA') flag to provide the Center immediate notification in the most serious cases, resulting in 642 'CA' notifications to the Center and helping the Center to have its highest recovery rate in history;

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