22 U.S.C. § 9113
Bilateral procedures, including memoranda of understanding
United States · Title 22 — FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE · Status: effective
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- 22 U.S.C. § 9113, Bilateral procedures, including memoranda of understanding, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/458705
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Not later than 180 days after August 8, 2014, the Secretary of State shall initiate a process to develop and enter into appropriate bilateral procedures, including memoranda of understanding, as appropriate, with non-Convention countries that are unlikely to become Convention countries in the foreseeable future, or with Convention countries that have unresolved abduction cases that occurred before the Hague Abduction Convention entered into force with respect to the United States or that country.
In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall give priority to countries with significant abduction cases and related issues.
The bilateral procedures described in subsection (a) should include provisions relating to—
the identification of—
the implementation of procedures to ensure the immediate enforcement of an order issued by the authority identified pursuant to subparagraph (B) to return an abducted child to a left-behind parent, including by—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2014House: 398–0Senate: no recorded tally