To amend section 1201 of title 18, United States Code, to assure a sufficiently severe penalty for kidnappings of children that are not returned unharmed.

Amends the Federal criminal code to direct the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend existing sentencing guidelines to require that, if the child victim of a kidnapping has not been released or recovered within 30 days after the abduction, the minimum sentence would be increased by 19 levels (i.e., to life imprisonment).