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110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6503
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 22 (legislative day, September 17), 2008
Received
AN ACT
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient
Alert Program Reauthorization of 2008
.
Reauthorization of the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program
Section 240001 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is amended—
by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
Grant
Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this section, the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist such organizations in paying for the costs of planning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and other missing elderly individuals.
;
in subsection (b)—
by inserting
competitive
after to receive a
; and
by adding at the
end the following new sentence: The Attorney General shall periodically
solicit applications for grants under this section by publishing a request for
applications in the Federal Register and by posting such a request on the
website of the Department of Justice.
;
by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
Preference
In awarding grants under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall give preference to national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to patients, and families of patients, with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
; and
by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 2015.
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Passed the House of Representatives September 17, 2008.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk