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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1301 

To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child 

Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies 

in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 18, 2009 

Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. HATCH, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. 

LAUTENBERG, Mr. KERRY, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. CRAPO, 

Mr. BAYH, Mr. BURRIS, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. VITTER, 

Mr. MERKLEY, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, and Mr. NELSON of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant 

to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center 

to assist law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery 

of missing children, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘A Child Is Missing 

5 Alert and Recovery Center Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DIRECTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MAKE AN2 NUAL GRANTS TO A CHILD IS MISSING ALERT 

3 AND RECOVERY CENTER TO ASSIST LAW EN4 FORCEMENT AGENCIES IN RECOVERING 

5 MISSING CHILDREN. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, acting 

7 through the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Jus8 tice and Delinquency Prevention, shall annually make a 

9 grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Cen10 ter. 

11 (b) SPECIFIED USE OF FUNDS FOR RECOVERY AC12 TIVITIES, REGIONAL CENTERS, EDUCATION, AND INFOR13 MATION SHARING.—A Child Is Missing Alert and Recov14 ery Center shall use the funds made available under this 

15 Act— 

16 (1) to operate and expand the A Child Is Miss17 ing Alert and Recovery Center to provide services to 

18 Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies 

19 to promote the quick recovery of a missing child in 

20 response to a request from such agencies for assist21 ance by utilizing rapid alert telephone calls, text 

22 messaging, and satellite mapping technology; 

23 (2) to maintain and expand technologies and 

24 techniques to ensure the highest level of performance 

25 of such services; 


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1 (3) to establish and maintain regional centers 

2 to provide both centralized and on-site training and 

3 to distribute information to Federal, State, and local 

4 law enforcement agency officials about how to best 

5 utilize the services provided by the A Child Is Miss6 ing Alert and Recovery Center; 

7 (4) to share appropriate information with the 

8 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 

9 the AMBER Alert Coordinator, the Silver Alert Co10 ordinator, and appropriate Federal, State, and local 

11 law enforcement agencies; and 

12 (5) to assist the National Center for Missing 

13 and Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert Coordi14 nator, the Silver Alert Coordinator, and appropriate 

15 Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies 

16 with education programs. 

17 SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MISSING CHILD. 

18 In this Act, the term ‘‘missing child’’ means an indi19 vidual whose whereabouts are unknown to a Federal, 

20 State, or local law enforcement agency. 

21 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

22 For grants under section 2, there are authorized to 

23 be appropriated to the Attorney General $5,000,000 for 


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1 each fiscal year from fiscal year 2010 through fiscal year 

2 2015. 

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