Bill Text: TX HB3522 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the criteria for issuing a silver alert for a missing senior citizen.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3522 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3522-Introduced.html
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By: Neave | H.B. No. 3522 |
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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 411.381(3), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Senior citizen" means a person who is 55 [ |
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years of age or older. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 411.386, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(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 55 [ |
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of age or older; | ||
(B) the senior citizen's location is unknown; and | ||
(C) 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. | ||
(c) The family or legal guardian of a missing senior citizen | ||
may provide documentation as required by Subsection (b)(1) by | ||
submitting to the local law enforcement agency an affidavit stating | ||
that the senior citizen has an impaired mental condition. The local | ||
law enforcement agency may not require additional documentation | ||
under Subsection (b)(1) from a family or legal guardian who submits | ||
an affidavit as described by this subsection. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |