| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the criteria for issuing a silver alert for a missing |
|
|
senior citizen. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 411.386, Government Code, is amended to |
|
|
read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 411.386. NOTIFICATION TO DEPARTMENT OF MISSING SENIOR |
|
|
CITIZEN. (a) A local law enforcement agency may notify the |
|
|
department if the agency: |
|
|
(1) receives notice of a missing senior citizen; |
|
|
(2) verifies that at the time the senior citizen is |
|
|
reported missing: |
|
|
(A) the person reported missing is 65 years of |
|
|
age or older; |
|
|
(B) the senior citizen's location is unknown; and |
|
|
(C) [the senior citizen's domicile is in Texas;
|
|
|
and
|
|
|
[(D)] the senior citizen has an impaired mental |
|
|
condition; and |
|
|
(3) determines that the senior citizen's disappearance |
|
|
poses a credible threat to the senior citizen's health and safety. |
|
|
(b) The local law enforcement agency shall: |
|
|
(1) require the family or legal guardian of the |
|
|
missing senior citizen to provide documentation of the senior |
|
|
citizen's impaired mental condition to verify the condition as |
|
|
required by Subsection (a)(2)(C) [(a)(2)(D)]; and |
|
|
(2) as soon as practicable, determine whether the |
|
|
senior citizen's disappearance poses a credible threat to the |
|
|
senior citizen's health and safety for purposes of Subsection |
|
|
(a)(3). |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
|
|
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
|
|
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
|
|
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
|
|
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 834 was passed by the House on March |
|
|
19, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 3, 1 present, not |
|
|
voting. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 834 was passed by the Senate on May |
|
|
15, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |
|
|
APPROVED: _____________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
_____________________ |
|
|
Governor |