Bill Text: HI SB2097 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Notification; Silver Alert Program
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-20 - (S) Referred to HMS/TIA, JGO. [SB2097 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2097-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO A SILVER ALERT program foR MISSING SENIOR CITIZENS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§28- Statewide silver alert program; development and implementation. (a) The attorney general, with the cooperation of the county police departments, the civil defense division of the state department of defense, local broadcasters, and other appropriate state and county agencies, shall develop and implement a voluntary statewide silver alert program and partnership to be activated on behalf of missing senior citizens.
(b) To the greatest extent possible, the silver alert program shall be integrated with the existing MAILE AMBER (Minor Abducted in Life-threatening Emergency/America's Broadcast Emergency Response) alert program and partnership under the direction of the office of the attorney general.
(c) A silver alert shall be activated if the following criteria are met:
(1) A county police department receives notice of a missing senior citizen from the family or legal guardian of the missing senior citizen;
(2) The current location of the senior citizen is unknown;
(3) The senior citizen has an impaired mental condition that can be documented by the family, legal guardian, or physician of the missing senior citizen; and
(4) Sufficient information is provided to authorities that indicate that the senior citizen's disappearance poses a credible threat to the health and safety of the senior citizen.
(d) The silver alert shall include the following:
(1) Any appropriate information provided by the police department of the county in which the senior citizen is domiciled;
(2) Information, including photographs, last known sighting, clothes worn, and any other information that may lead to the safe rescue of the missing senior citizen; and
(3) A statement, including telephone and any other contact information, instructing any person having any knowledge related to the missing senior citizen to contact a local law enforcement agency.
(e) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise,
"Local law enforcement agency" means a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the investigation of a missing senior citizen.
"Senior citizen" means a person who is sixty-five years of age or older and is domiciled within the State."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2010.
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Report Title:
Notification; Silver Alert Program
Description:
Creates a voluntary statewide silver alert program and partnership to be operated concurrently with the voluntary Maile AMBER ALERT program and partnership.
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