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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4305 

To authorize the Attorney General to provide a grant to assist Federal, 

State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery 

of missing individuals. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 29, 2012 

Mr. CHABOT (for himself and Mr. DEUTCH) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To authorize the Attorney General to provide a grant to 

assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement 

agencies in the rapid recovery of missing individuals. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child and Elderly 

5 Missing Alert Program’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROGRAM TO ASSIST FEDERAL, STATE, TRIBAL, 

2 AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 

3 IN THE RAPID RECOVERY OF MISSING CHIL4 DREN, THE ELDERLY, AND DISABLED INDI5 VIDUALS. 

6 Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

7 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) is 

8 amended— 

9 (1) in subsection (b)— 

10 (A) in paragraph (16), by striking ‘‘and’’ 

11 after the semicolon; 

12 (B) in paragraph (17), by striking the pe13 riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

14 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

15 paragraph: 

16 ‘‘(18) to permit an eligible nonprofit organiza17 tion to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law en18 forcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing 

19 children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals 

20 through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular 

21 alert call system, in accordance with subsection (l).’’; 

22 and 

23 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub24 section: 

25 ‘‘(l) CHILD AND ELDERLY MISSING ALERTS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General is 

2 authorized to award a grant to one eligible nonprofit 

3 organization to assist Federal, State, tribal, and 

4 local law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery 

5 of missing children, elderly individuals, and disabled 

6 individuals through the use of a rapid telephone and 

7 cellular alert call system. 

8 ‘‘(2) SPECIFIED USE OF FUNDS.—The grant 

9 awarded under this subsection shall be used to— 

10 ‘‘(A) provide services to Federal, State, 

11 tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, in 

12 response to a request from such agencies, to 

13 promote the rapid recovery of a missing child, 

14 an elderly individual, or a disabled individual by 

15 utilizing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls; 

16 ‘‘(B) maintain and expand technologies 

17 and techniques to ensure the highest level of 

18 performance of such services; 

19 ‘‘(C) provide both centralized and on-site 

20 training, and distribute information, to Federal, 

21 State, and local law enforcement agency offi22 cials about missing children, elderly individuals, 

23 and disabled individuals and use of a rapid tele24 phone and cellular alert call system; 


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1 ‘‘(D) provide services to Federal, State, 

2 tribal, and local Child Abduction Response 

3 Teams; 

4 ‘‘(E) assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 

5 law enforcement agencies to combat human 

6 trafficking through the use of rapid telephone 

7 and cellular alert calls; 

8 ‘‘(F) share appropriate information on 

9 cases with the National Center for Missing and 

10 Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert, Silver 

11 Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appro12 priate Federal, State, tribal, and local law en13 forcement agencies; and 

14 ‘‘(G) assist appropriate organizations, in15 cluding Federal, State, tribal, and local law en16 forcement agencies, with education and preven17 tion programs related to missing children, el18 derly individuals, and disabled individuals. 

19 ‘‘(3) ELIGIBILITY.—To be an eligible nonprofit 

20 organization for purposes of the grant under this 

21 subsection, a nonprofit organization shall— 

22 ‘‘(A) have 5 or more years of experience 

23 providing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls 

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1 forcement agencies to find missing children and 

2 elderly adults; 

3 ‘‘(B) provide documentation of safe recov4 eries of missing children and elderly individuals 

5 assisted by the organization; and 

6 ‘‘(C) have the ability to provide services 

7 and educational assistance to Federal, State, 

8 tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in 

9 every State. 

10 ‘‘(4) GRANT PERIOD AND RENEWAL.—The At11 torney General shall determine an appropriate grant 

12 period for the grant awarded under this subsection, 

13 and such grant may be renewed at the discretion of 

14 the Attorney General. 

15 ‘‘(5) EVALUATION.—The Attorney General shall 

16 require the grantee under this subsection to annually 

17 submit the results of the monitoring and evaluations 

18 required under subsections (a) and (b) of section 

19 1705, and shall publish an annual report regarding 

20 such results and the effectiveness of the activities 

21 carried out under such grant. 

22 ‘‘(6) INAPPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—The fol23 lowing provisions of this part shall not apply to 

24 grants awarded under this subsection: 


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1 ‘‘(A) Subsection (g) of this section (relat2 ing to matching funds). 

3 ‘‘(B) Subsection (j) of this section (relating 

4 to grants to Indian tribes). 

5 ‘‘(C) Section 1703 (relating to renewal of 

6 grants). 

7 ‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

8 ‘‘(A) CHILD.—The term ‘child’ means an 

9 individual under 21 years of age. 

10 ‘‘(B) DISABLED INDIVIDUAL.—The term 

11 ‘disabled individual’ means— 

12 ‘‘(i) an individual with 1 or more dis13 abilities (as defined in section 3 of the 

14 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 

15 (42 U.S.C. 12102)); or 

16 ‘‘(ii) an individual who has been diag17 nosed by a physician or other qualified 

18 medical professional with Alzheimer’s dis19 ease or a related dementia. 

20 ‘‘(C) ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL.—The term 

21 ‘elderly individual’ means an individual who is 

22 55 years of age or older. 

23 ‘‘(D) MISSING.—The term ‘missing’, with 

24 respect to a child, an elderly individual, or a 

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1 vidual who has been reported missing and 

2 whose whereabouts are unknown to Federal, 

3 State, tribal, and local law enforcement agen4 cies. 

5 ‘‘(E) RAPID TELEPHONE AND CELLULAR

6 ALERT CALL SYSTEM.—The term ‘rapid tele7 phone and cellular alert call system’ means an 

8 automated system with the ability to place at 

9 least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 

10 seconds to a specific geographic area deter11 mined by law enforcement— 

12 ‘‘(i) based on the last known where13 abouts of a missing individual; or 

14 ‘‘(ii) based on other evidence and de15 termined by such law enforcement agency 

16 to be necessary to the search for the miss17 ing individual.’’. 

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