1.This Act may be cited as the
Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient
Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009
.
2.Reauthorization of the
Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert ProgramSection 240001 of the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is amended—
(1)by amending
subsection (a) to read as follows:
(a)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.
;
(2)in
subsection (b)—
(A)by inserting
competitive
after to receive a
; and
(B)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.
;
(3)by amending
subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c)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
(4)by amending
subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d)Authorization of
appropriationsThere are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of
the fiscal years 2010 through
2016.
.
June 25, 2010
Reported without amendment