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[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 556 Introduced in House (IH)]

107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 556

 Recognizing the ``Code Adam'' child safety program, commending retail 
   business establishments that have implemented programs to protect 
children from abduction, and urging retail business establishments that 
        have not implemented such program to consider doing so.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 25, 2002

Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Lampson, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Foley, 
Mr. Frost, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Levin, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mrs. Mink of 
Hawaii, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Wilson of South 
 Carolina, Mr. Rothman, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Terry, Mr. Payne, and Mr. 
Acevedo-Vila) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Recognizing the ``Code Adam'' child safety program, commending retail 
   business establishments that have implemented programs to protect 
children from abduction, and urging retail business establishments that 
        have not implemented such program to consider doing so.

Whereas protecting children is one of society's greatest responsibilities;
Whereas child abduction, an unconscionable and horrendous crime, seems to be 
        increasing in frequency;
Whereas parents, and all other adults, must be ever vigilant in public places to 
        protect children, who by their very nature are trusting and 
        unsuspecting, from those depraved and vile individuals who would prey on 
        them;
Whereas recognizing the risk of child abduction, some retail business 
        establishments and libraries have developed safety procedures and 
        programs designed to prevent abductors from using crowds of shoppers as 
        cover for nefarious acts;
Whereas one of the most successful programs to prevent child abduction is the 
        ``Code Adam'' alarm developed in 1994 and implemented by Wal-Mart stores 
        and SAM'S Clubs throughout the Nation; and
Whereas, named in tribute to 6-year-old Adam Walsh who was abducted from a 
        shopping mall in the State of Florida and murdered in 1981, the ``Code 
        Adam'' alarm signals that there is a missing child and alerts designated 
        employees in the affected retail business establishment or library to 
        abandon their normal responsibilities and, in a coordinated and 
        prearranged organized manner, to begin searching for the child and 
        monitoring the establishment exits to ensure that the child is not 
        removed from the establishment: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the ``Code 
Adam'' child safety program, commends all retail business 
establishments that have implemented such program to protect children 
from abduction, and urges retail business establishments that have not 
implemented such program to consider doing so.
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