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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 908 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 908

 To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to 
   reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2009

Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Markey of Massachusetts, Mr. Smith of New 
Jersey, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Scott of Virginia, and Mr. Waxman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to 
   reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient 
Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MISSING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PATIENT 
              ALERT PROGRAM.

    Section 240001 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Grant.--Subject to the availability of appropriations to 
carry out this section, the Attorney General, through the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, shall award competitive grants to nonprofit 
organizations to assist such organizations in paying for the costs of 
planning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, 
proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients with 
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and other missing elderly 
individuals.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by inserting ``competitive'' after ``to receive 
                a''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                sentence: ``The Attorney General shall periodically 
                solicit applications for grants under this section by 
                publishing a request for applications in the Federal 
                Register and by posting such a request on the website 
                of the Department of Justice.'';
            (3) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Preference.--In awarding grants under subsection (a), the 
Attorney General shall give preference to national nonprofit 
organizations that have a direct link to patients, and families of 
patients, with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.''; and
            (4) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2010 through 2016.''.
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