Washington ? The House joined the Senate Thursday in approving money for a nationwide child kidnapping “Amber Alert” system, but a dispute about the House’s addition of other provisions for sex offenses could delay the system’s implementation.

The GOP-controlled House pushed through a package of child protection measures by an overwhelming vote of 410-14, including “Amber” and “Code Adam” alerts designed to quickly stop kidnappers, a ban on computer-simulated child pornography and new punitive measures for sex offenses.

The legislation “not only gets the word out after a kidnapping, but it also takes strong steps to keep them from happening in the first place,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.

President Bush, in a statement, said he would sign the legislation “as quickly as possible.”

Amber alerts are named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl abducted in Arlington, Texas, and later found murdered. Bulletins are distributed quickly through radio and television broadcasts and electronic highway signs about kidnapped children and their abductors.

The legislation would create a national child kidnapping notification network and provide matching grants to states and communities for equipment and training.

While the Senate has approved the Amber Alert legislation, it has not approved some of the other House measures, meaning a compromise committee will have to be formed. It is not known when that committee will begin its work, although Democrats said the House’s action meant nothing would get to Bush for months.