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 2011’’. 
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 
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(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 
request on the Web site 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 2012 through 
2018.’’. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Missing Alzheimer’s Dis-
ease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2012’’. 
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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 appropria-
tions to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, shall award com-
petitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist such or-
ganizations in paying for the costs of planning, designing, 
establishing, and operating locally based, proactive pro-
grams to protect and locate missing patients with Alz-
heimer’s disease and related dementias.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘competitive’’ 
after ‘‘to receive a’’; 
(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 experience work-
ing with patients, and families of patients, with Alz-
heimer’s disease and related dementias.’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2017.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 469 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2800 
[Report No. 112–651] 
A BILL 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing 
Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program. 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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