1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Endangered Children, Unaccompanied and at Risk of Exploitation Act of 2023 or as the SECURE Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to statistics kept by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at least 345,000 children have crossed the United States southern border unaccompanied since early 2021. (2) Thousands of these children have been victims of child sex trafficking, forced child labor, or child sexual exploitation and abuse, or some combination of these crimes. (3) The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, was and is responsible for the well-being of these children up through repatriation or placement in safe homes within the United States. (4) The Department and the Office have lost contact with as many as 85,000 of these migrant children after placing them with sponsors in the United States and their locations and well-being is currently unknown. (5) The risk of child sex trafficking, forced child labor, and sexual exploitation and abuse of these children is immediate and grave. 3. Reporting requirements (a) In general Not later than 75 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall jointly submit a status report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate on the status of all unaccompanied alien children that have been in the custody and care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement since January 1, 2021, and have been released to a parent, family-member, or sponsor within the United States.