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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2103 
To authorize the Attorney General to provide grants for organizations to 
find missing adults. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 4, 2005 
Mrs. MYRICK (for herself, Mr. PASTOR, and Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To authorize the Attorney General to provide grants for 
organizations to find missing adults. 
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 ‘‘Kristen’s Act Reauthoriza-
tion of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Every year thousands of adults become 
missing due to advanced age, diminished mental ca-
pacity, or foul play. Often there is no information
regarding the whereabouts of these adults and many 
of them are never reunited with their families. 
(2) Missing adults are at great risk of both 
physical harm and sexual exploitation. 
(3) In most cases, families and local law en-
forcement officials have neither the resources nor 
the expertise to undertake appropriate search efforts 
for a missing adult. 
(4) The search for a missing adult requires co-
operation and coordination among Federal, State, 
and local law enforcement agencies and assistance 
from distant communities where the adult may be lo-
cated. 
(5) Federal assistance is urgently needed to 
help with coordination among such agencies. 
(6) Since 2001, following the enactment of 
Kristen’s Act (Public Law 106–468), the National 
Center for Missing Adults has— 
(A) served as a national resource center 
and information clearinghouse for missing 
adults; 
(B) provided training to investigative law 
enforcement officers to prepare such officers to 
appropriately respond to missing adult cases; 
and
(C) worked in cooperation with the Bureau 
of Justice Assistance and the Office for Victims 
of Crime of the Department of Justice, the 
International Homicide Investigators Associa-
tion, and many other agencies in the effort to 
find missing adults and prevent victimization. 
(7) The National Center for Missing Adults is 
working to provide policy training to police chiefs 
and sheriffs regarding the issues of missing adults. 
(8) The demand for the services of the National 
Center for Missing Adults is growing substantially. 
SEC. 3. GRANTS FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS 
TO FIND MISSING ADULTS. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Attorney General, acting through 
the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the 
Department of Justice, shall make grants to public agen-
cies or nonprofit private organizations, or combinations 
thereof, to— 
(1) maintain a national resource center and in-
formation clearinghouse for missing and unidentified 
adults; 
(2) maintain a national, interconnected data-
base for the purpose of tracking missing adults who 
are determined by law enforcement to be endangered 
due to age, diminished mental capacity, or the cir-
cumstances of disappearance, when foul play is sus-
pected or circumstances are unknown; 
(3) coordinate public and private programs that 
locate or recover missing adults or reunite missing 
adults with their families; 
(4) provide assistance and training to law en-
forcement agencies, State and local governments, 
elements of the criminal justice system, nonprofit or-
ganizations, and individuals in the prevention, inves-
tigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involv-
ing missing adults; 
(5) provide assistance to families in locating 
and recovering missing adults; and 
(6) assist in public notification and victim advo-
cacy related to missing adults. 
(b) OTHER DUTIES.—The Attorney General, acting 
through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance 
of the Department of Justice, shall— 
(1) coordinate programs relating to missing 
adults that are funded by the Federal Government; 
(2) provide access to the National Crime Infor-
mation Center of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion to the public agencies or nonprofit private orga-
nizations receiving a grant pursuant to subsection 
(a)(1).
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act, $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 
2016. 
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