Recognizing the "Code Adam" child safety program, commending retail businesses and public establishments that have implemented programs to protect children from an abduction or lost scenario, and urging retail businesses and public establishments that have not implemented such programs to consider doing so.

        [Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 254 Introduced in House (IH)]

108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 254

Recognizing the ``Code Adam'' child safety program, commending retail
businesses and public establishments that have implemented programs to
protect children from an abduction or lost scenario, and urging retail
businesses and public establishments that have not implemented such
programs to consider doing so.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 22, 2003

Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Foley, Mr. Acevedo-Vila, Ms.
Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Frost, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Ms.
Kaptur, Mr. Payne, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Wilson of South
Carolina, and Mr. Wexler) submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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RESOLUTION

Recognizing the ``Code Adam'' child safety program, commending retail
businesses and public establishments that have implemented programs to
protect children from an abduction or lost scenario, and urging retail
businesses and public establishments that have not implemented such
programs to consider doing so.

Whereas protecting children is one of society's greatest responsibilities;
Whereas child abduction, an unconscionable and horrendous crime, has received
much media attention;
Whereas parents, and all other adults, must be ever vigilant in public places to
protect children, who by their very nature are trusting and
unsuspecting, from those depraved and vile individuals who would prey on
them;
Whereas recognizing the risk of child abduction, some retail businesses,
libraries, museums, hospitals, and other public and private
establishments have developed safety procedures and programs designed to
prevent abductors from using crowds of people as cover for nefarious
acts;
Whereas one of the most successful programs to prevent child abduction is the
``Code Adam'' alarm developed in 1994 and implemented by Wal-Mart stores
and SAM'S Clubs throughout the Nation;
Whereas the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has been
instrumental in helping to implement the ``Code Adam'' child safety
program at retail and businesses and public establishments; and
Whereas, named in tribute to 6-year-old Adam Walsh who was abducted from a
shopping mall in the State of Florida and murdered in 1981, the ``Code
Adam'' alarm signals that there is a missing child and alerts designated
employees in the affected retail business, public establishment or
library to abandon their normal responsibilities and, in a coordinated
and prearranged organized manner, to begin searching for the child and
monitoring the establishment exits to ensure that the child is not
removed from the establishment: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the ``Code
Adam'' child safety program, commends all retail businesses and public
establishments that have implemented such programs to protect children
from an abduction or lost scenario, and urges retail business and
public establishments that have not implemented such programs to
consider doing so.
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