In the Senate of the United States, 
December 21, 2017. 
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 195) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend title 44, United 
States Code, to restrict the distribution of free printed copies 
of the Federal Register to Members of Congress and other 
officers and employees of the United States, and for other 
purposes.’’, do pass with the following 
AMENDMENT: 
At the end, add the following: 
TITLE II—KEVIN AND AVONTE’S 
LAW OF 2017 
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s 
Law of 2017’’.
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Subtitle 
A—Missing 
Alzheimer’s 
Disease Patient Alert Program 
Reauthorization 
SEC. 211. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Missing Americans 
Alert Program Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 
212. 
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 (34 
U.S.C. 12621) is amended— 
(1) in the section header, by striking ‘‘ALZ-
HEIMER’S
DISEASE
PATIENT’’ and inserting 
‘‘AMERICANS’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(a) GRANT PROGRAM TO REDUCE INJURY
AND 
DEATH OF MISSING AMERICANS WITH DEMENTIA AND DE-
VELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.—Subject to the availability 
of appropriations to carry out this section, the Attorney 
General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in 
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services—
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‘‘(1) shall award competitive grants to health 
care agencies, State and local law enforcement agen-
cies, or public safety agencies and nonprofit organiza-
tions to assist such entities in planning, designing, 
establishing, or operating locally based, proactive pro-
grams to prevent wandering and locate missing indi-
viduals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s 
Disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, 
who, due to their condition, wander from safe envi-
ronments, including programs that— 
‘‘(A) provide prevention and response infor-
mation, including online training resources, and 
referrals to families or guardians of such indi-
viduals 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 disabil-
ities, may wander from safe environments; 
‘‘(ii) facilitate the rescue and recovery 
of individuals who, due to their dementia or
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developmental disabilities, wander from safe 
environments; and 
‘‘(iii) recognize and respond to and ap-
propriately interact with endangered miss-
ing individuals with dementia or develop-
mental disabilities who, due to their condi-
tion, wander from safe environments; 
‘‘(C) provide prevention and response train-
ing and emergency protocols for school adminis-
trators, staff, and families or guardians of indi-
viduals with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s Dis-
ease, or developmental disabilities, such as au-
tism, 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 information 
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-
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nology programs for individuals with forms of demen-
tia, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, or children with de-
velopmental 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 Fed-
eral 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 person-cen-
tered plans minimizing restrictive interventions and that 
have a direct link to individuals, and families of individ-
uals, with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, 
or developmental disabilities, such as autism.
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022. 
‘‘(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 General 
of the Department of Justice that the audited 
grantee has utilized grant funds for an unau-
thorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable 
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 fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of 
this subsection, and in each fiscal year there-
after, the Inspector General of the Department of 
Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of 
grants under this section to prevent waste, fraud, 
and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector 
General shall determine the appropriate number 
of grantees to be audited each year.