US Congress Senate Resolution 543 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-9)
Status: Introduced on August 2 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-12-04 - Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S7403-7404; text as passed Senate: CR S7403-7404)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Condemns the international abduction of all children. Urges countries identified by the Department of State as noncompliant or demonstrating patterns of noncompliance with the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction to fulfill their commitment to implement the Convention. Calls on all countries: (1) to become a party to the Convention and institute measures to address cases of international parental child abduction, and (2) that have not become a party to the Convention to develop a mechanism for the resolution of cases of international parental child abduction that occur prior to becoming a party to the Convention. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should: (1) pursue the return of each child abducted by a parent from the United States to another country through all appropriate means, facilitate access by the left-behind parent if the child is not returned, and, where appropriate, seek the extradition of the abductor parent; (2) take all appropriate measures to ensure that a child abducted to a Convention country is returned to the child's country of habitual residence; (3) use diplomacy to encourage other countries to become a party to the Convention and to encourage countries that have not become a party to the Convention to develop a mechanism to resolve cases of international child abduction that occur prior to becoming a party to the Convention; and (4) review the advisory services made available to U.S. citizens by the Department of State, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and other U.S. government agencies to improve the prevention of such child abduction from the United States, and to ensure that effective assistance is provided to U.S. citizen parents of such abducted children.

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate on international parental child abduction.

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Tim Johnson [D-SD]
Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]	Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Richard Lugar [R-IN]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]
Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-12-04	Senate	Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S7403-7404; text as passed Senate: CR S7403-7404)
2012-09-19	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 528.
2012-09-19	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and with an amended preamble. Without written report.
2012-09-19	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
2012-08-02	Senate	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5991-5992)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-resolution/543/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/sres543/BILLS-112sres543is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/sres543/BILLS-112sres543rs.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/sres543/BILLS-112sres543ats.pdf