Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-908
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Department of Justice
Emergency communications systems
Executive agency funding and structure
Law enforcement administration and funding
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program through FY2016 and to revise program requirements to: (1) provide for competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist in locating missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; (2) expand such program to include locating other missing elderly individuals; (3) require the Attorney General to solicit grants for program applications in the Federal Register and on the Department of Justice (DOJ) website; and (4) establish a preference in awarding grants to national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families (currently, grants may be awarded to only such organizations). 

action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program through FY2016 and to revise program requirements to: (1) provide for competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist in locating missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; (2) expand such program to include locating other missing elderly individuals; (3) require the Attorney General to solicit grants for program applications in the Federal Register and on the Department of Justice (DOJ) website; and (4) establish a preference in awarding grants to national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families (currently, grants may be awarded to only such organizations). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 444.
action_date: 2010-06-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-06-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1118)
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1118)
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate H.R. 908.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1118-1120)
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Mr. Johnson (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House