[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 5464 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
2d Session
H. R. 5464
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 15, 2008
Received
August 1, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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AN ACT
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 ANNUAL GRANTS TO A CHILD
IS MISSING ALERT AND RECOVERY CENTER TO ASSIST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN RECOVERING MISSING CHILDREN.
(a) In General.--The Attorney General, acting through the
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, shall annually make a grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert
and Recovery Center.
(b) Specified Use of Funds for Recovery Activities, Regional
Centers, Education, and Information Sharing.--A Child Is Missing Alert
and Recovery Center shall use the funds made available under this Act--
(1) to operate and expand the A Child Is Missing Alert and
Recovery Center to provide services to Federal, State, and
local law enforcement agencies to promote the quick recovery of
a missing child in response to a request from such agencies for
assistance 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 Missing 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 Coordinator, and appropriate Federal,
State, and local law enforcement agencies with education
programs.
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.
Passed the House of Representatives July 14, 2008.
Attest:
LORRAINE C. MILLER,
Clerk.
By Robert F. Reeves,
Deputy Clerk.