[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2567 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2567

To amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the use of 
civil air defense sirens to warn persons living near prison facilities 
              of the escape of an inmate of the facility.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1993

  Mr. Franks of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the use of 
civil air defense sirens to warn persons living near prison facilities 
              of the escape of an inmate of the facility.

    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 ``Prisoner Escape Alarm Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CIVIL AIR DEFENSE SIRENS UPON PRISON ESCAPES.

    (a) Use Authorized.--Title II of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 
1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 208. AUTHORIZED USES OF CIVIL AIR DEFENSE SIRENS.

    ``The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may 
authorize the use of civil air defense sirens located near a Federal, 
State, or local prison facility to warn persons living near the 
facility of the escape of an inmate of the facility. The Director shall 
prescribe by rule the manner in which the sirens may be used, and the 
signal that may be used, to provide such warning.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in the first section 
of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
207 the following new item:

``Sec. 208. Authorized uses of civil air defense sirens.''.

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