(a) Attorney General.--The Attorney General shall fund the
$100,000 pilot program.
(b) Distribution.--The funding for the pilot program shall
be distributed as follows:
(1) Seventy-five percent of the funding shall be used
for a regional training session to train new agencies as
members or associates in the use of the technology and to
provide the members or associates with the equipment and
personal transmitter devices for the members or associates to
distribute.
(2) Twenty-five percent of the funding shall be used for
personal transmitter devices and updated technology to be
provided to members and associates established prior to the
effective date of this section.
(c) Procedure.--The Attorney General, in consultation with
an international nonprofit organization capable of providing
personal transmitter devices, responders and training to
agencies and organizations, shall establish criteria and select
participants for the pilot program based on a first-come, first-
served basis.
Section 5. Report.
Within 365 days of the establishment of the pilot program
under section 3, the international nonprofit organization shall
submit to the Attorney General and the Appropriations Committee
of the Senate and the Appropriations Committee of the House of
Representatives a report which shall contain the following:
(1) The number of individuals who benefited from the
pilot program, including information such as the number of
individuals who used tracking devices under the program, the
number of people who were trained through the program and the
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