STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 751	By:	Schulz

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to missing and endangered persons; requiring the Commissioner of Public Safety to establish certain policies and procedures for certain high-risk missing person advisory; defining term; providing certain circumstances for determining such persons; providing for codification; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2-129.1 of Title 47, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
No later than December 1, 2013, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall establish an Endangered Missing Person Advisory for high-risk missing persons.  The advisory shall be established by rule, policies and procedures similar to or substantially the same as adopted for Oklahoma's Amber Plan.  As used in this subsection, a "high-risk missing person" means a person whose whereabouts are not currently known, whose circumstances indicate that the person may be at risk of injury or death and the person does not meet the requirements of an Amber Alert.
The circumstances that indicate that a person is a high-risk missing person include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
1.  The person is missing as a result of a stranger abduction;
2.  The person is missing under suspicious circumstances;
3.  The person is missing under unknown circumstances;
4.  The person is missing under known dangerous circumstances;
5.  The person is missing more than thirty (30) days;
6.  The person has already been designated as a high-risk missing person by another law enforcement agency;
7.  There is evidence that the person is at risk because:
a.	the person is in need of medical attention, including but not limited to persons with dementia-like symptoms, or prescription medication,
b.	the person does not have a pattern of running away or disappearing,
c.	the person may have been abducted by a non-custodial parent,
d.	the person is mentally impaired,
e.	the person is under the age of twenty-one (21),
f.	the person has been the subject of past threats or acts of violence,or
g.	the person has eloped from a nursing home; or
8.  Any other factor that may, in the judgment of the law enforcement official, indicate that the missing person may be at risk.
SECTION 2.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

54-1-228	LKS	1/17/2013 9:37:07 AM