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Union Calendar No. 467 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4305 

[Report No. 112–649] 

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 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 

Additional sponsors: Mr. ROSS of Arkansas, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. BOREN, Mr. 

CONNOLLY of Virginia, Mr. KISSELL, Mr. LATOURETTE, and Mr. SCHOCK

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see bill as introduced on March 29, 2012] 


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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. 


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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 Miss5 ing Alert Program’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PROGRAM TO ASSIST FEDERAL, STATE, TRIBAL, AND 

7 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN THE 

8 RAPID RECOVERY OF MISSING CHILDREN, 

9 THE ELDERLY, AND DISABLED INDIVIDUALS. 

10 Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

11 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) is amend12 ed— 

13 (1) in subsection (b)— 

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

15 after the semicolon; 

16 (B) in paragraph (17), by striking the pe17 riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

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

19 paragraph: 

20 ‘‘(18) to permit eligible nonprofit organizations 

21 to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforce22 ment agencies in the rapid recovery of missing chil23 dren, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals 

24 through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular alert 

25 call system, in accordance with subsection (l).’’; 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 au5 thorized to award grants to eligible nonprofit organi6 zations to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law 

7 enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing 

8 children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals 

9 through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular alert 

10 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, trib14 al, and local law enforcement agencies, in re15 sponse to a request from such agencies, to pro16 mote the rapid recovery of a missing child, an 

17 elderly individual, or a disabled individual by 

18 utilizing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls; 

19 ‘‘(B) maintain and expand technologies and 

20 techniques to ensure the highest level of perform21 ance 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, trib4 al, and local Child Abduction Response Teams; 

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

6 law enforcement agencies to combat human traf7 ficking through the use of rapid telephone and 

8 cellular alert calls; 

9 ‘‘(F) share appropriate information on 

10 cases with the National Center for Missing and 

11 Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert, Silver 

12 Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appropriate 

13 Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement 

14 agencies; and 

15 ‘‘(G) assist appropriate organizations, in16 cluding Federal, State, tribal, and local law en17 forcement agencies, with education and preven18 tion programs related to missing children, elder19 ly individuals, and disabled individuals. 

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

21 organization for purposes of a grant under this sub22 section, a nonprofit organization shall have experi23 ence providing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls 

24 on behalf of Federal, State, and local law enforcement 

25 agencies to find missing children and elderly adults. 


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1 ‘‘(4) GRANT PERIOD AND RENEWAL.—The Attor2 ney General shall determine an appropriate grant pe3 riod for grants awarded under this subsection. Such 

4 grants may be renewed at the discretion of the Attor5 ney General. 

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

7 require each grantee under this subsection to annually 

8 submit the results of the monitoring and evaluations 

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

10 1705, and shall publish an annual report regarding 

11 such results and the effectiveness of the activities car12 ried out under each such grant. 

13 ‘‘(6) INAPPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—The following 

14 provisions of this part shall not apply to grants 

15 awarded under this subsection: 

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

17 to grants to Indian tribes). 

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

19 grants). 

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

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

22 individual under 21 years of age. 

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

24 ‘disabled individual’ means— 


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1 ‘‘(i) an individual with 1 or more dis2 abilities (as defined in section 3 of the 

3 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 

4 U.S.C. 12102)); or 

5 ‘‘(ii) an individual who has been diag6 nosed by a physician or other qualified 

7 medical professional with Alzheimer’s dis8 ease or a related dementia. 

9 ‘‘(C) ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘el10 derly individual’ means an individual who is 60 

11 years of age or older. 

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

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

14 disabled individual, means such a child or indi15 vidual who has been reported to law enforcement 

16 as missing and whose whereabouts are unknown 

17 to Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforce18 ment agencies. 

19 ‘‘(E) RAPID TELEPHONE AND CELLULAR

20 ALERT CALL SYSTEM.—The term ‘rapid telephone 

21 and cellular alert call system’ means an auto22 mated system with the ability to place at least 

23 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 seconds 

24 to a specific geographic area determined by law 

25 enforcement— 


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1 ‘‘(i) based on the last known where2 abouts of a missing individual; or 

3 ‘‘(ii) based on other evidence and deter4 mined by such law enforcement agency to be 

5 necessary to the search for the missing indi6 vidual.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 467 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4305 

[Report No. 112–649] 

A BILL 

To authorize the Attorney General to provide a 

missing individuals. law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of grant to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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