S.Amdt. 4829

SA 4829. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 4685 proposed by Mr. Shelby (for himself and Ms.
Mikulski) to the bill H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
Sec. 2__. (a) In this section--
(1) the term ``eligible nonprofit organization'' means a
nonprofit organization that has experience providing rapid
telephone and cellular alert calls on behalf of Federal,
State, and local law enforcement agencies to find missing
children and elderly adults; and
(2) the term ``rapid telephone and cellular alert call
system'' means an automated system with the ability to place
at least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 seconds to
a specific geographic area determined by law enforcement--
(A) based on the last known whereabouts of a missing
individual; or
(B) based on other evidence and determined by such law
enforcement agency to be necessary to the search for the
missing individual.
(b) The Attorney General may use unobligated balances made
available to the Department of Justice under this title to
make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to assist
Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in
the rapid recovery of missing children, elderly individuals,
and disabled individuals through the use of a rapid telephone
and cellular alert call system. Such grants shall be used
to--
(1) provide services to Federal, State, tribal, and local
law enforcement agencies, in response to a request from such
agencies, to promote the rapid recovery of a missing child,
an elderly individual, or a disabled individual by utilizing
rapid telephone and cellular alert calls;
(2) maintain and expand technologies and techniques to
ensure the highest level of performance of such services;

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(3) provide both centralized and on-site training and
distribute information to Federal, State, tribal, and local
law enforcement agency officials about missing children,
elderly individuals, and disabled individuals and use of a
rapid telephone and cellular alert call system;
(4) provide services to Federal, State, tribal, and local
Child Abduction Response Teams;
(5) assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law
enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking through the
use of rapid telephone and cellular alert calls;
(6) share appropriate information on cases with the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the AMBER
Alert, Silver Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appropriate
Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies;
and
(7) assist appropriate organizations, including Federal,
State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, with
education and prevention programs related to missing
children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals.
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