IIB 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4305 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Missing Alert Program’’. 

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

5 AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 

6 IN THE RAPID RECOVERY OF MISSING CHIL7 DREN, THE ELDERLY, AND DISABLED INDI8 VIDUALS. 

9 Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

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

11 amended— 

12 (1) in subsection (b)— 

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

14 after the semicolon; 

15 (B) in paragraph (17), by striking the pe16 riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

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

18 paragraph: 

19 ‘‘(18) to permit eligible nonprofit organizations 

20 to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law en21 forcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing 

22 children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals 

23 through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular 

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

25 and 


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1 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub2 section: 

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

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

5 authorized to award grants to eligible nonprofit or6 ganizations to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 

7 law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of 

8 missing children, elderly individuals, and disabled in9 dividuals through the use of a rapid telephone and 

10 cellular alert call system. 

11 ‘‘(2) SPECIFIED USE OF FUNDS.—The grants 

12 awarded under this subsection shall be used to— 

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

14 tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, in 

15 response to a request from such agencies, to 

16 promote the rapid recovery of a missing child, 

17 an elderly individual, or a disabled individual by 

18 utilizing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls; 

19 ‘‘(B) maintain and expand technologies 

20 and techniques to ensure the highest level of 

21 performance of such services; 

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

23 training and distribute information to Federal, 

24 State, tribal, and local law enforcement agency 

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1 uals, and disabled individuals and use of a 

2 rapid telephone and cellular alert call system; 

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

4 tribal, and local Child Abduction Response 

5 Teams; 

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

7 law enforcement agencies to combat human 

8 trafficking through the use of rapid telephone 

9 and cellular alert calls; 

10 ‘‘(F) share appropriate information on 

11 cases with the National Center for Missing and 

12 Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert, Silver 

13 Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appro14 priate Federal, State, tribal, and local law en15 forcement agencies; and 

16 ‘‘(G) assist appropriate organizations, in17 cluding Federal, State, tribal, and local law en18 forcement agencies, with education and preven19 tion programs related to missing children, el20 derly individuals, and disabled individuals. 

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

22 organization for purposes of a grant under this sub23 section, a nonprofit organization shall have experi24 ence providing rapid telephone and cellular alert 

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1 forcement agencies to find missing children and el2 derly adults. 

3 ‘‘(4) GRANT PERIOD AND RENEWAL.—The At4 torney General shall determine an appropriate grant 

5 period for grants awarded under this subsection. 

6 Such grants may be renewed at the discretion of the 

7 Attorney General. 

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

9 require each grantee under this subsection to annu10 ally submit the results of the monitoring and evalua11 tions required under subsections (a) and (b) of sec12 tion 1705, and shall publish an annual report re13 garding such results and the effectiveness of the ac14 tivities carried out under each such grant. 

15 ‘‘(6) INAPPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—The fol16 lowing provisions of this part shall not apply to 

17 grants awarded under this subsection: 

18 ‘‘(A) Subsection (j) of this section (relating 

19 to grants to Indian tribes). 

20 ‘‘(B) Section 1703 (relating to renewal of 

21 grants). 

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

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

24 individual under 21 years of age. 


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

2 ‘disabled individual’ means— 

3 ‘‘(i) an individual with 1 or more dis4 abilities (as defined in section 3 of the 

5 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 

6 (42 U.S.C. 12102)); or 

7 ‘‘(ii) an individual who has been diag8 nosed by a physician or other qualified 

9 medical professional with Alzheimer’s dis10 ease or a related dementia. 

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

12 ‘elderly individual’ means an individual who is 

13 60 years of age or older. 

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

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

16 disabled individual, means such a child or indi17 vidual who has been reported to law enforce18 ment as missing and whose whereabouts are 

19 unknown to Federal, State, tribal, and local law 

20 enforcement agencies. 

21 ‘‘(E) RAPID TELEPHONE AND CELLULAR

22 ALERT CALL SYSTEM.—The term ‘rapid tele23 phone and cellular alert call system’ means an 

24 automated system with the ability to place at 

25 least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 


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1 seconds to a specific geographic area deter2 mined by law enforcement— 

3 ‘‘(i) based on the last known where4 abouts of a missing individual; or 

5 ‘‘(ii) based on other evidence and de6 termined by such law enforcement agency 

7 to be necessary to the search for the miss8 ing individual.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 11, 

2012. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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