H.B. No. 834
 
 
 
 
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