Caylee's Law of 2011

Caylee Anthony Caregiver Responsibility Act of 2011 or Caylee's Law of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish penalties to be imposed on a parent, legal guardian, or person with custody of a child who fails to report to the appropriate authorities that the child has been missing for more than 24 hours or has been dead for more than 1 hour.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2716 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2716

To amend title 18, United States Code, impose penalties for failing to 
report, within a reasonable amount of time, the disappearance or death 
                  of a child, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2011

  Mr. Kissell (for himself, Mr. Doggett, and Mr. Smith of Washington) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, impose penalties for failing to 
report, within a reasonable amount of time, the disappearance or death 
                  of a child, 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 ``Caylee Anthony Caregiver 
Responsibility Act of 2011'' or as the ``Caylee's Law of 2011''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    Chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after section 1038 the following:
``Sec. 1038A. Failure to report a missing or dead child
    ``(a) Offenses.--
            ``(1) Failure to report missing child.--Whoever, being a 
        parent of a child who has been missing for more than 24 hours, 
        fails to report that the child is missing to the appropriate 
        authorities and travels in interstate or foreign commerce or 
        acts within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction 
        of the United States in committing the offense, shall be fined 
        under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or 
        both.
            ``(2) Concealment of dead child.--Whoever, being a parent 
        of a child who has been dead for more than 1 hour, fails to 
        report that death to the appropriate authorities and travels in 
        interstate or foreign commerce or acts within the special 
        maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States in 
        committing the offense, shall be fined under this title or 
        imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Parent.--The term `parent' means a parent, legal 
        guardian, or other person with custody of a child.
            ``(2) Child.--The term `child' means a person under the age 
        of 12 years.''.

SEC. 3. CLERICAL AMENDMENT.

    The table of sections for chapter 47 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after the item regarding section 1038 the 
following:

``1038A. Failure to report a missing or dead child.''.
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