H.R. 908 · 111th Congress
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009
- Stage
- Passed a chamber
- Sponsor
- Maxine Waters
- Introduced
- 2009-02-04
- Latest action
- 2010-06-25 · Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
Summary
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2009 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program through FY2016 and to revise program requirements to: (1) provide for competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist in locating missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; (2) expand such program to include locating other missing elderly individuals; (3) require the Attorney General to solicit grants for program applications in the Federal Register and on the Department of Justice (DOJ) website; and (4) establish a preference in awarding grants to national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families (currently, grants may be awarded to only such organizations).