[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1301 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1301

 To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child 
Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies 
   in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2009

  Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
Lautenberg, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Bayh, 
Mr. Burris, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Merkley, Mrs. 
 Gillibrand, and Mr. Nelson of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child 
Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies 
   in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.

    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 ``A Child Is Missing Alert and 
Recovery Center Act''.

SEC. 2. DIRECTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MAKE ANNUAL GRANTS TO A CHILD 
              IS MISSING ALERT AND RECOVERY CENTER TO ASSIST LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN RECOVERING MISSING CHILDREN.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General, acting through the 
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention, shall annually make a grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert 
and Recovery Center.
    (b) Specified Use of Funds for Recovery Activities, Regional 
Centers, Education, and Information Sharing.--A Child Is Missing Alert 
and Recovery Center shall use the funds made available under this Act--
            (1) to operate and expand the A Child Is Missing Alert and 
        Recovery Center to provide services to Federal, State, and 
        local law enforcement agencies to promote the quick recovery of 
        a missing child in response to a request from such agencies for 
        assistance by utilizing rapid alert telephone calls, text 
        messaging, and satellite mapping technology;
            (2) to maintain and expand technologies and techniques to 
        ensure the highest level of performance of such services;
            (3) to establish and maintain regional centers to provide 
        both centralized and on-site training and to distribute 
        information to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agency 
        officials about how to best utilize the services provided by 
        the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center;
            (4) to share appropriate information with the National 
        Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert 
        Coordinator, the Silver Alert Coordinator, and appropriate 
        Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies; and
            (5) to assist the National Center for Missing and Exploited 
        Children, the AMBER Alert Coordinator, the Silver Alert 
        Coordinator, and appropriate Federal, State, and local law 
        enforcement agencies with education programs.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MISSING CHILD.

    In this Act, the term ``missing child'' means an individual whose 
whereabouts are unknown to a Federal, State, or local law enforcement 
agency.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    For grants under section 2, there are authorized to be appropriated 
to the Attorney General $5,000,000 for each fiscal year from fiscal 
year 2010 through fiscal year 2015.
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