IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4305 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child and Elderly 
Missing Alert Program’’. 
SEC. 2. PROGRAM TO ASSIST FEDERAL, STATE, TRIBAL, 
AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 
IN THE RAPID RECOVERY OF MISSING CHIL-
DREN, THE ELDERLY, AND DISABLED INDI-
VIDUALS. 
Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (16), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (17), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(18) to permit eligible nonprofit organizations 
to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law en-
forcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing 
children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals 
through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular 
alert call system, in accordance with subsection (l).’’; 
and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(l) CHILD AND ELDERLY MISSING ALERTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General is 
authorized to award grants to eligible nonprofit or-
ganizations to assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 
law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of 
missing children, elderly individuals, and disabled in-
dividuals through the use of a rapid telephone and 
cellular alert call system. 
‘‘(2) SPECIFIED USE OF FUNDS.—The grants 
awarded under this subsection shall be used to— 
‘‘(A) provide services to Federal, State, 
tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, in 
response to a request from such agencies, to 
promote the rapid recovery of a missing child, 
an elderly individual, or a disabled individual by 
utilizing rapid telephone and cellular alert calls; 
‘‘(B) maintain and expand technologies 
and techniques to ensure the highest level of 
performance of such services; 
‘‘(C) provide both centralized and on-site 
training and distribute information to Federal, 
State, tribal, and local law enforcement agency 
officials about missing children, elderly individ-
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uals, and disabled individuals and use of a 
rapid telephone and cellular alert call system; 
‘‘(D) provide services to Federal, State, 
tribal, and local Child Abduction Response 
Teams; 
‘‘(E) assist Federal, State, tribal, and local 
law enforcement agencies to combat human 
trafficking through the use of rapid telephone 
and cellular alert calls; 
‘‘(F) share appropriate information on 
cases with the National Center for Missing and 
Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert, Silver 
Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appro-
priate Federal, State, tribal, and local law en-
forcement agencies; and 
‘‘(G) assist appropriate organizations, in-
cluding Federal, State, tribal, and local law en-
forcement agencies, with education and preven-
tion programs related to missing children, el-
derly individuals, and disabled individuals. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBILITY.—To be an eligible nonprofit 
organization for purposes of a grant under this sub-
section, a nonprofit organization shall have experi-
ence providing rapid telephone and cellular alert 
calls on behalf of Federal, State, and local law en-
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forcement agencies to find missing children and el-
derly adults. 
‘‘(4) GRANT PERIOD AND RENEWAL.—The At-
torney General shall determine an appropriate grant 
period for grants awarded under this subsection. 
Such grants may be renewed at the discretion of the 
Attorney General. 
‘‘(5) EVALUATION.—The Attorney General shall 
require each grantee under this subsection to annu-
ally submit the results of the monitoring and evalua-
tions required under subsections (a) and (b) of sec-
tion 1705, and shall publish an annual report re-
garding such results and the effectiveness of the ac-
tivities carried out under each such grant. 
‘‘(6) INAPPLICABLE
PROVISIONS.—The fol-
lowing provisions of this part shall not apply to 
grants awarded under this subsection: 
‘‘(A) Subsection (j) of this section (relating 
to grants to Indian tribes). 
‘‘(B) Section 1703 (relating to renewal of 
grants). 
‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) CHILD.—The term ‘child’ means an 
individual under 21 years of age. 
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‘‘(B) DISABLED
INDIVIDUAL.—The term 
‘disabled individual’ means— 
‘‘(i) an individual with 1 or more dis-
abilities (as defined in section 3 of the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12102)); or 
‘‘(ii) an individual who has been diag-
nosed by a physician or other qualified 
medical professional with Alzheimer’s dis-
ease or a related dementia. 
‘‘(C) ELDERLY
INDIVIDUAL.—The term 
‘elderly individual’ means an individual who is 
60 years of age or older. 
‘‘(D) MISSING.—The term ‘missing’, with 
respect to a child, an elderly individual, or a 
disabled individual, means such a child or indi-
vidual who has been reported to law enforce-
ment as missing and whose whereabouts are 
unknown to Federal, State, tribal, and local law 
enforcement agencies. 
‘‘(E) RAPID TELEPHONE AND CELLULAR 
ALERT CALL SYSTEM.—The term ‘rapid tele-
phone and cellular alert call system’ means an 
automated system with the ability to place at 
least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 
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seconds to a specific geographic area deter-
mined by law enforcement— 
‘‘(i) based on the last known where-
abouts of a missing individual; or 
‘‘(ii) based on other evidence and de-
termined by such law enforcement agency 
to be necessary to the search for the miss-
ing individual.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 11, 
2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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