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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 209
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-147
AMENDING THE PROTECT ACT TO MAKE INDIAN TRIBES
ELIGIBLE FOR AMBER ALERT GRANTS
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 772]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 772) to amend the PROTECT ACT to make Indian tribes eligi-
ble for AMBER Alert grants, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends the bill do
pass.1
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 772 is to amend the PROTECT Act of 2003,
and add Indian tribes as eligible awardees for grant programs that
help assemble AMBER Alert systems for law enforcement agencies.
Doing so will broaden the scope of an AMBER Alert and increase
the likelihood that issuing an AMBER Alert will result in the suc-
cessful recovery of a child in danger. Where tribal communication
systems may fall short, state and regional broadcasters will be able
to fill the gap. This legislation, S. 772, re-authorizes funding to up-
date and install broadcast and media infrastructure for this pur-
pose.
BACKGROUND
The AMBER Alert Program was named in honor of 9-year-old
Amber Hagerman who, in January 1996, was abducted in Arling-
ton, Texas and later found murdered. The AMBER Alert System
'The PROTECT Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-21, 117 Stat. 650 (2003) (codified as amended
at 42 U.S.C. §5791c).
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