A 10-year-old with autism looks out from his California home where the windows and doors are bolted due to the boy's tendency to wander away. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./Sacramento Bee/TNS)

The U.S. Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary has approved the bill known as Kevin’s and Avonte’s Law to include children with autism and other developmental disabilities in the existing program designed to help people with Alzheimer’s disease who may go missing.