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Union Calendar No. 479 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5464 
[Report No. 110–753] 
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 
FEBRUARY 14, 2008 
Mr. KLEIN of Florida (for himself, Mr. NADLER, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. WEXLER, 
Mr. COHEN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. SUTTON, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. MAHONEY of Florida, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, 
Mr. MEEK of Florida, and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
JULY 10, 2008 
Additional sponsors: Mr. CONYERS, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Ms. BORDALLO, 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. 
JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. CARSON, and Mr. SHERMAN 
JULY 10, 2008 
Deleted sponsor: Mr. SENSENBRENNER (added February 14, 2008; deleted 
March 13, 2008) 
JULY 10, 2008 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant 
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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’’. 
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 
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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; 
(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, 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, and appropriate Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement agencies with education programs. 
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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 
each fiscal year from fiscal year 2009 through fiscal year 
2014. 
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Union Calendar No. 479 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5464 
[Report No. 110–753] 
A BILL 
To direct the Attorney General to make an annual 
grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recov-
ery Center to assist law enforcement agencies in 
the rapid recovery of missing children, and for 
other purposes. 
JULY 10, 2008 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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