Bill Text: TX HB834 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criteria for issuing a silver alert for a missing senior citizen.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB834 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB834-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 834 |
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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 411.386, 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 | ||
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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) [ |
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(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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |