Support legislation to enhance national missing-person alert systems and require specialized first-responder training and education for cases involving missing adults with disabilities.

This legislation will strengthen our nation’s missing-person alert systems to give first responders access to the training they need to act fast and save lives.

Smith backs the Enhanced Alerts for Missing Loved Ones with Disabilities Act to improve alert systems and training for missing adults with disabilities.

Smith, Alford, and Schmitt Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Enhance Efforts to Locate Missing Adults with Disabilities – Jason Smith
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H.R.4919 would rename and reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program as the Missing Americans Alert Program. The bill text authorized grants to prevent wandering and locate missing people with dementia or developmental disabilities, provide education and training to first responders, and develop or enhance notification or communications systems for recovery of missing individuals with dementia or developmental disabilities.

This was a close legislative vehicle for the commitment: it covered missing-person alert/communications systems and specialized first-responder training for people with dementia or developmental disabilities.

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Congress.gov - H.R.4919, Kevin and Avonte's Law of 2016, Engrossed in House text
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Roll Call 619 was on motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R.4919, as amended. The measure passed 346-66. The vote list records Smith (MO), Republican, Missouri, as Nay.

Jason Smith voted against the 2016 House bill that most directly matched the promise's training and alert-system language.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House - Roll Call 619 on H.R.4919
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H.R.1625 became Public Law 115-141 on March 23, 2018. Congress.gov's summary identifies Division Q as Kevin and Avonte's Law of 2018 and the Missing Americans Alert Program Act of 2018, directing DOJ/BJA grants to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering and locate missing individuals with dementia or developmental disabilities, and including training and technical assistance language for cases involving children with developmental disabilities such as autism.

The substance of the missing-person program and disability-related training legislation became law in 2018 through the omnibus appropriations act.

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Congress.gov - H.R.1625, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
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Roll Call 127 was on concurring in the Senate amendment with a House amendment to H.R.1625. The motion passed 256-167. The vote list records Smith (MO), Republican, Missouri, as Nay.

Smith voted against the final House passage vehicle that enacted Kevin and Avonte's Law of 2018 as part of Public Law 115-141.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House - Roll Call 127 on H.R.1625
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H.R.5075 became Public Law 115-401 on December 31, 2018. Congress.gov summarizes the law as directing DOJ to establish the Ashanti Alert communications network to support regional and local search efforts for missing adults; the House passed it by voice vote on September 25, 2018.

A separate national missing-adult alert-system enhancement became law, but it did not itself establish the specialized disability-focused first-responder training described in the commitment, and Smith's individual support is not recorded on the voice vote.

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Congress.gov - H.R.5075, Ashanti Alert Act of 2018
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