US Congress House Bill 3487 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)
Status: Introduced on July 31 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-09-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends federal criminal law, pending the disposition of a case in which a foreign national removes from or retains outside of the United States a child who is a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident with the intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights, to direct: (1) a court to freeze such national's U.S. financial assets (including property); and (2) the Secretary of State to identify such national's foreign-held assets and request that the appropriate countries freeze such assets. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend visa ineligibility for aliens involved in U.S. child abductions to situations in which the child is located in a foreign state that is a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

International Parental Child Abduction Deterrence Act

Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY]	Rep. Dan Burton [R-IN]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Jeff Miller [R-FL]
Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA]	Rep. Anthony Weiner [D-NY]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-09-14		Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
2009-09-14		Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
2009-07-31		Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3487/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr3487/BILLS-111hr3487ih.pdf