IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 632 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To encourage, enhance, and integrate Silver Alert plans 
throughout the United States, to authorize grants for 
the assistance of organizations to find missing adults, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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TITLE I—SILVER ALERT 
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK 
SECTION 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘National Silver Alert 
Act 2009’’. 
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this title: 
(1) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(2) MISSING SENIOR.—The term ‘‘missing sen-
ior’’ refers to any individual who— 
(A) is reported to, or identified by, a law 
enforcement agency as a missing person; and 
(B) meets the requirements to be des-
ignated as a missing senior, as determined by 
the State in which the individual is reported or 
identified as a missing person. 
SEC. 103. SILVER ALERT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. 
The Attorney General shall, subject to the availability 
of appropriations under section 107, establish a national 
Silver Alert communications network within the Depart-
ment of Justice to provide assistance to regional and local 
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search efforts for missing seniors through the initiation, 
facilitation, and promotion of local elements of the net-
work (known as Silver Alert plans) in coordination with 
States, units of local government, law enforcement agen-
cies, and other concerned entities with expertise in pro-
viding services to seniors. 
SEC. 104. SILVER ALERT COORDINATOR. 
(a) NATIONAL COORDINATOR WITHIN DEPARTMENT 
OF JUSTICE.—The Attorney General shall designate an 
individual of the Department of Justice to act as the na-
tional coordinator of the Silver Alert communications net-
work. The individual so designated shall be known as the 
Silver Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice (re-
ferred to in this title as the ‘‘Coordinator’’). 
(b) DUTIES OF THE COORDINATOR.—In acting as the 
national coordinator of the Silver Alert communications 
network, the Coordinator shall— 
(1) work with States to encourage the develop-
ment of additional Silver Alert plans in the network; 
(2) establish voluntary guidelines for States to 
use in developing Silver Alert plans that will pro-
mote compatible and integrated Silver Alert plans 
throughout the United States, including— 
(A) a list of the resources necessary to es-
tablish a Silver Alert plan; 
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