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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1742 

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 

APRIL 13, 2015 

Mr. CHABOT (for himself, Mr. DEUTCH, and Ms. FRANKEL of Florida) 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 Act of 2015’’. 


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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 eligible nonprofit organizations 

17 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 grants to eligible nonprofit or3 ganizations to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 

4 law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of 

5 missing children, elderly individuals, and disabled in6 dividuals through the use of a rapid telephone and 

7 cellular alert call system. 

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

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, tribal, and local law enforcement agency 

22 officials about missing children, elderly individ23 uals, and disabled individuals and use of a 

24 rapid telephone 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 a grant under this sub21 section, a nonprofit organization shall have experi22 ence providing rapid telephone and cellular alert 

23 calls on behalf of Federal, State, and local law en24 forcement agencies to find missing children and el25 derly adults. 


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1 ‘‘(4) GRANT PERIOD AND RENEWAL.—The At2 torney General shall determine an appropriate grant 

3 period for grants awarded under this subsection. 

4 Such grants may be renewed at the discretion of the 

5 Attorney General. 

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

7 require each grantee under this subsection to annu8 ally submit the results of the monitoring and evalua9 tions required under subsections (a) and (b) of sec10 tion 1705, and shall publish an annual report re11 garding such results and the effectiveness of the ac12 tivities carried out under each such grant. 

13 ‘‘(6) INAPPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—The fol14 lowing provisions of this part shall not apply to 

15 grants 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 

4 (42 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 

10 ‘elderly individual’ means an individual who is 

11 60 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 enforce16 ment as missing and whose whereabouts are 

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

18 enforcement agencies. 

19 ‘‘(E) RAPID TELEPHONE AND CELLULAR

20 ALERT CALL SYSTEM.—The term ‘rapid tele21 phone and cellular alert call system’ means an 

22 automated system with the ability to place at 

23 least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 

24 seconds to a specific geographic area deter25 mined by law 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 de4 termined by such law enforcement agency 

5 to be necessary to the search for the miss6 ing individual.’’. 

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