[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 90 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 90

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1999

 Mr. Pallone submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                       the Committee on Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


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

Whereas protecting children is one of society's greatest responsibilities;
Whereas child abduction, an unconscionable and horrendous crime, seems to be 
        increasing in frequency;
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 business 
        establishments have developed safety procedures and programs designed to 
        prevent abductors from using crowds of shoppers as cover for nefarious 
        acts;
Whereas one of the most successful programs to prevent child abduction is the 
        ``Code Adam'' alarm developed and implemented by Wal-Mart stores and 
        SAM'S Clubs throughout the Nation; 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 all sales 
        personnel in the affected retail business establishment 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 business 
establishments that have implemented such program to protect children 
from abduction, and urges retail business establishments that have not 
implemented such program to consider doing so.
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