114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4919 
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, and to promote initiatives 
that will reduce the risk of injury and death relating 
to the wandering characteristics of some children with 
autism. 
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 ‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s 
Law of 2016’’. 
TITLE I—MISSING ALZHEIMER’S 
DISEASE 
PATIENT 
ALERT 
PROGRAM 
REAUTHORIZA-
TION 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Missing Americans 
Alert Program Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 
102. 
REAUTHORIZATION 
OF 
THE 
MISSING 
ALZ-
HEIMER’S DISEASE PATIENT ALERT PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 240001 of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 14181) is amended— 
(1) in the section header, by striking ‘‘ALZ-
HEIMER’S
DISEASE
PATIENT’’ and inserting 
‘‘AMERICANS’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(a) GRANT PROGRAM TO REDUCE INJURY
AND 
DEATH OF MISSING AMERICANS WITH DEMENTIA AND 
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.—Subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations to carry out this section, the At-
torney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance
and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services— 
‘‘(1) shall award competitive grants to health 
care agencies, State and local law enforcement agen-
cies, or public safety agencies and nonprofit organi-
zations to assist such entities in planning, designing, 
establishing, or operating locally based, proactive 
programs to prevent wandering and locate missing 
individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alz-
heimer’s Disease, or developmental disabilities, such 
as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from 
safe environments, including programs that— 
‘‘(A) provide prevention and response in-
formation, including online training resources, 
and referrals to families or guardians of such 
individuals who, due to their condition, wander 
from a safe environment; 
‘‘(B) provide education and training, in-
cluding online training resources, to first re-
sponders, school personnel, clinicians, and the 
public in order to— 
‘‘(i) increase the safety and reduce the 
incidence of wandering of persons, who, 
due to their dementia or developmental
disabilities, may wander from safe environ-
ments; 
‘‘(ii) facilitate the rescue and recovery 
of individuals who, due to their dementia 
or developmental disabilities, wander from 
safe environments; and 
‘‘(iii) recognize and respond to and 
appropriately interact with endangered 
missing individuals with dementia or devel-
opmental disabilities who, due to their con-
dition, wander from safe environments; 
‘‘(C) provide prevention and response 
training and emergency protocols for school ad-
ministrators, staff, and families or guardians of 
individuals with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s 
Disease, or developmental disabilities, such as 
autism, to help reduce the risk of wandering by 
such individuals; and 
‘‘(D) develop, operate, or enhance a notifi-
cation or communications systems for alerts, 
advisories, or dissemination of other informa-
tion for the recovery of missing individuals with 
forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, 
or with developmental disabilities, such as au-
tism; and
‘‘(2) shall award grants to health care agencies, 
State and local law enforcement agencies, or public 
safety agencies to assist such agencies in designing, 
establishing, and operating locative tracking tech-
nology programs for individuals with forms of de-
mentia, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, or children 
with developmental disabilities, such as autism, who 
have wandered from safe environments.’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘competitive’’ after ‘‘to re-
ceive a’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘agency or’’ before ‘‘orga-
nization’’ each place it appears; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘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.’’; 
and 
(4) by striking subsections (c) and (d) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-
section (a)(1), the Attorney General shall give preference 
to law enforcement or public safety agencies that partner
with nonprofit organizations that appropriately use per-
son-centered plans minimizing restrictive interventions 
and that have a direct link to individuals, and families of 
individuals, with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s 
Disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021. 
‘‘(e) GRANT ACCOUNTABILITY.—All grants awarded 
by the Attorney General under this section shall be subject 
to the following accountability provisions: 
‘‘(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘unresolved audit finding’ means a finding 
in the final audit report of the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Department of Justice that the au-
dited grantee has utilized grant funds for an 
unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallow-
able cost that is not closed or resolved within 
12 months from the date when the final audit 
report is issued. 
‘‘(B) AUDITS.—Beginning in the first fis-
cal year beginning after the date of enactment 
of this subsection, and in each fiscal year there-
after, the Inspector General of the Department
lations to create a rebuttable presumption of 
reasonableness for the compensation of its offi-
cers, directors, trustees, and key employees, 
shall disclose to the Attorney General, in the 
application for the grant, the process for deter-
mining such compensation, including the inde-
pendent persons involved in reviewing and ap-
proving such compensation, the comparability 
data used, and contemporaneous substantiation 
of the deliberation and decision. Upon request, 
the Attorney General shall make the informa-
tion disclosed under this subparagraph available 
for public inspection. 
‘‘(3) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
‘‘(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts made 
available to the Department of Justice under 
this section may be used by the Attorney Gen-
eral, or by any individual or entity awarded dis-
cretionary funds through a cooperative agree-
ment under this section, to host or support any 
expenditure for conferences that uses more than 
$20,000 in funds made available by the Depart-
ment of Justice, unless the head of the relevant 
agency or department, provides prior written
authorization that the funds may be expended 
to host the conference. 
‘‘(B) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written ap-
proval under subparagraph (A) shall include a 
written estimate of all costs associated with the 
conference, including the cost of all food, bev-
erages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria for 
speakers, and entertainment. 
‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral shall submit an annual report to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives on all conference expenditures 
approved under this paragraph. 
‘‘(4) ANNUAL
CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in 
the first fiscal year beginning after the date of en-
actment of this subsection, the Attorney General 
shall submit, to the Committee on the Judiciary and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and 
the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
an annual certification— 
‘‘(A) indicating whether— 
‘‘(i) all audits issued by the Office of 
the Inspector General under paragraph (1)
have been completed and reviewed by the 
appropriate Assistant Attorney General or 
Director; 
‘‘(ii) all mandatory exclusions required 
under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued; 
and 
‘‘(iii) all reimbursements required 
under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; 
and 
‘‘(B) that includes a list of any grant re-
cipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the 
previous year. 
‘‘(f) PREVENTING DUPLICATIVE GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Before the Attorney Gen-
eral awards a grant to an applicant under this sec-
tion, the Attorney General shall compare potential 
grant awards with other grants awarded by the At-
torney General to determine if grant awards are or 
have been awarded for a similar purpose. 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—If the Attorney General awards 
grants to the same applicant for a similar purpose 
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a 
report that includes—
‘‘(A) a list of all such grants awarded, in-
cluding the total dollar amount of any such 
grants awarded; and 
‘‘(B) the reason the Attorney General 
awarded multiple grants to the same applicant 
for a similar purpose.’’. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act and every year there-
after, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives a report on the Missing Americans Alert Program, 
as amended by subsection (a), which shall address— 
(1) the number of individuals who benefitted 
from the Missing Americans Alert Program, includ-
ing information such as the number of individuals 
with reduced unsafe wandering, the number of peo-
ple who were trained through the program, and the 
estimated number of people who were impacted by 
the program; 
(2) the number of State, local, and tribal law 
enforcement or public safety agencies that applied 
for funding under the Missing Americans Alert Pro-
gram;
(3) the number of State, local, and tribal local 
law enforcement or public safety agencies that re-
ceived funding under the Missing Americans Alert 
Program, including— 
(A) the number of State, local, and tribal 
law enforcement or public safety agencies that 
used such funding for training; and 
(B) the number of State, local, and tribal 
law enforcement or public safety agencies that 
used such funding for designing, establishing, 
or operating locative tracking technology; 
(4) the companies, including the location (city 
and State) of the headquarters and local offices of 
each company, for which their locative tracking tech-
nology was used by State, local, and tribal law en-
forcement or public safety agencies; 
(5) the nonprofit organizations, including the 
location (city and State) of the headquarters and 
local offices of each organization, that State, local, 
and tribal law enforcement or public safety agencies 
partnered with and the result of each partnership; 
(6) the number of missing children with autism 
or another developmental disability with wandering 
tendencies or adults with Alzheimer’s being served