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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 3461 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend the PROTECT Act to expand the national AMBER Alert system to territories of the United States, and for other... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. AMBER Alerts along major transportation routes

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Section 303 of the PROTECT Act ( 34 U.S.C. 20503 ) is amended— in the section heading, by inserting after the following: along highways ; and major transportation routes in subsection (a)— by inserting after Secretary of Transportation the following: (referred to in this section as the ; and Secretary ) by inserting after along highways the following: and at airports, maritime ports, border crossing areas and checkpoints, and ports of exit from the United States ; in subsection (b)— in paragraph (1)— by striking other motorist information systems to notify motorists and inserting other information systems to notify motorists, aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; and by inserting after necessary to notify motorists the following: , aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; in paragraph (2)— in subparagraph (A), by striking other motorist information systems to notify motorists and inserting other information systems to notify motorists, aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; in subparagraph (D), by inserting after support the notification of motorists the following: , aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; in subparagraph (E), by inserting after motorists , each place it appears, the following: , aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; in subparagraph (F), by inserting after motorists the following: , aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; and in subparagraph (G), by inserting after motorists the following: , aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; in subsection (c), by striking other motorist information systems to notify motorists , each place it appears, and inserting other information systems to notify motorists, aircraft passengers, ship passengers, and travelers ; by amending subsection
(d)to read as follows: Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Federal share of the cost of any activities funded by a grant under this section may not exceed 80 percent. If the Secretary determines that American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States is unable to comply with the requirement under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall waive such requirement. ; in subsection (g)— by striking In this section and inserting In this subtitle ; and by striking or Puerto Rico and inserting American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and any other territory of the United States ; and in subsection (h), by striking fiscal year 2004 and inserting each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022 . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the PROTECT Act ( Public Law 108–21 ) is amended by striking the item relating to section 303 and inserting the following: Sec. 303. Grant program for notification and communications systems along highways and major transportation routes for recovery of abducted children. .
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