Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2013

Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to revise provisions concerning the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program to direct the Attorney General: (1) through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist 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 (2) in awarding grants, to give preference to national nonprofit organizations that have experience working with patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families.

Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY2014-FY2018.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2976 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2976

 To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to 
   reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2013

 Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
   Grijalva, Ms. Bordallo, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Loretta 
Sanchez of California, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Jackson 
  Lee, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. Wilson of 
  Florida, Mr. Payne, Ms. Norton, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Carson of 
Indiana, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Farr, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
  Hinojosa, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Polis, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. 
   Clarke, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Keating, and Ms. 
 Schakowsky) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to 
   reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program.

    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 ``Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient 
Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MISSING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PATIENT 
              ALERT PROGRAM.

    Section 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) Grant.--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.'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``competitive'' after 
        ``to receive a'';
            (3) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Preference.--In awarding grants under subsection (a), the 
Attorney General shall give preference to national nonprofit 
organizations that have experience working with 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 Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.
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