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Calendar No. 444 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 908 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
JUNE 25, 2010 
Reported by Mr. LEAHY, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Dis-
ease Patient Alert Program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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’’. 
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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 fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consulta-
tion 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 plan-
ning, 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 re-
ceive a’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The Attorney General shall periodi-
cally solicit applications for grants under this 
section by publishing a request for applications 
in the Federal Register and by posting such a 
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request on the website of the Department of 
Justice.’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-
section (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 fol-
lows: 
‘‘(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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Calendar No. 444 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 908 
AN ACT 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing 
Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program. 
JUNE 25, 2010 
Reported without amendment 
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