I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1933 
To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child 
Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies 
in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 2, 2009 
Mr. KLEIN of Florida (for himself, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. 
NADLER of New York, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 
WEXLER, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. BOOZMAN, Ms. SUTTON, Ms. 
ROS-LEHTINEN, Ms. BORDALLO, Mrs. MYRICK, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of 
Florida, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. LATHAM, and Ms. NORTON) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant 
to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center 
to assist law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery 
of missing children, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘A Child Is Missing 
Alert and Recovery Center Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DIRECTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MAKE AN-
NUAL GRANTS TO A CHILD IS MISSING ALERT 
AND RECOVERY CENTER TO ASSIST LAW EN-
FORCEMENT 
AGENCIES 
IN 
RECOVERING 
MISSING CHILDREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, acting 
through the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention, shall annually make a 
grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Cen-
ter. 
(b) SPECIFIED USE OF FUNDS FOR RECOVERY AC-
TIVITIES, REGIONAL CENTERS, EDUCATION, AND INFOR-
MATION SHARING.—A Child Is Missing Alert and Recov-
ery Center shall use the funds made available under this 
Act— 
(1) to operate and expand the A Child Is Miss-
ing Alert and Recovery Center to provide services to 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies 
to promote the quick recovery of a missing child in 
response to a request from such agencies for assist-
ance by utilizing rapid alert telephone calls, text 
messaging, and satellite mapping technology; 
(2) to maintain and expand technologies and 
techniques to ensure the highest level of performance 
of such services; 
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(3) to establish and maintain regional centers 
to provide both centralized and on-site training and 
to distribute information to Federal, State, and local 
law enforcement agency officials about how to best 
utilize the services provided by the A Child Is Miss-
ing Alert and Recovery Center; 
(4) to share appropriate information with the 
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 
the AMBER Alert Coordinator, the Silver Alert Co-
ordinator, and appropriate Federal, State, and local 
law enforcement agencies; and 
(5) to assist the National Center for Missing 
and Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert Coordi-
nator, the Silver Alert Coordinator, and appropriate 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies 
with education programs. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MISSING CHILD. 
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘missing child’’ 
means an individual whose whereabouts are unknown to 
a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For grants under section 2, there are authorized to 
be appropriated to the Attorney General $5,000,000 for 
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