[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4421-S4422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4829. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 4685 proposed by Mr. Shelby (for himself and Ms. 
Mikulski) to the bill H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
       Sec. 2__. (a) In this section--
       (1) the term ``eligible nonprofit organization'' means a 
     nonprofit organization that has experience providing rapid 
     telephone and cellular alert calls on behalf of Federal, 
     State, and local law enforcement agencies to find missing 
     children and elderly adults; and
       (2) the term ``rapid telephone and cellular alert call 
     system'' means an automated system with the ability to place 
     at least 1,000 telephone and cellular calls in 60 seconds to 
     a specific geographic area determined by law enforcement--
       (A) based on the last known whereabouts of a missing 
     individual; or
       (B) based on other evidence and determined by such law 
     enforcement agency to be necessary to the search for the 
     missing individual.
       (b) The Attorney General may use unobligated balances made 
     available to the Department of Justice under this title to 
     make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to assist 
     Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in 
     the rapid recovery of missing children, elderly individuals, 
     and disabled individuals through the use of a rapid telephone 
     and cellular alert call system. Such grants shall be used 
     to--
       (1) provide services to Federal, State, tribal, and local 
     law enforcement agencies, in response to a request from such 
     agencies, to promote the rapid recovery of a missing child, 
     an elderly individual, or a disabled individual by utilizing 
     rapid telephone and cellular alert calls;
       (2) maintain and expand technologies and techniques to 
     ensure the highest level of performance of such services;

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       (3) provide both centralized and on-site training and 
     distribute information to Federal, State, tribal, and local 
     law enforcement agency officials about missing children, 
     elderly individuals, and disabled individuals and use of a 
     rapid telephone and cellular alert call system;
       (4) provide services to Federal, State, tribal, and local 
     Child Abduction Response Teams;
       (5) assist Federal, State, tribal, and local law 
     enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking through the 
     use of rapid telephone and cellular alert calls;
       (6) share appropriate information on cases with the 
     National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the AMBER 
     Alert, Silver Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and appropriate 
     Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies; 
     and
       (7) assist appropriate organizations, including Federal, 
     State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, with 
     education and prevention programs related to missing 
     children, elderly individuals, and disabled individuals.
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