[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4498 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4498

 To amend title III of the PROTECT Act to modify the standards for the 
 issuance of alerts through the AMBER Alert communications network to 
       assist in facilitating the recovery of abducted newborns.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2007

  Mr. Graves introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title III of the PROTECT Act to modify the standards for the 
 issuance of alerts through the AMBER Alert communications network to 
       assist in facilitating the recovery of abducted newborns.

    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 ``Tory Jo's Loophole AMBER Response 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR ISSUANCE AND DISSEMINATION OF ALERTS 
              THROUGH AMBER ALERT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TO FACILITATE 
              THE RECOVERY OF ABDUCTED NEWBORNS.

    Section 302(b) of the PROTECT Act (42 U.S.C. 5791a(b)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) The minimum standards shall, to the maximum extent 
        practicable (as determined by the Coordinator in consultation 
        with State and local law enforcement agencies), allow local law 
        enforcement officials to issue, and to provide for the 
        dissemination of, an alert through the AMBER Alert 
        communications network to facilitate the recovery of an 
        abducted newborn.''.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF CHILD FOR PURPOSES OF AMBER ALERT COMMUNICATIONS 
              NETWORK.

    Subtitle A of title III of the PROTECT Act (42 U.S.C. 5791 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 306. CHILD DEFINED.

    ``In this subtitle, the term `child' means--
            ``(1) an individual under 18 years of age; or
            ``(2) a newborn.''.
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