H.B. No. 2639

	AN ACT
	relating to an alert for a missing senior citizen or person with
	Alzheimer's disease.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter M, Chapter 411,
	Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER M. SILVER ALERT FOR MISSING SENIOR CITIZENS AND PERSONS
	WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
	SECTION 2.  Sections 411.381(1) and (2), Government Code,
	are amended to read as follows:
	(1)  "Alert" means the statewide silver alert for
	missing senior citizens and persons with Alzheimer's disease, as
	developed and implemented under this subchapter.
	(2)  "Local law enforcement agency" means a local law
	enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the investigation of a
	missing senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's disease.
	SECTION 3.  Section 411.382, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 411.382.  SILVER ALERT FOR MISSING SENIOR CITIZENS AND
	PERSONS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. With the cooperation of the
	Texas Department of Transportation, the office of the governor, and
	other appropriate law enforcement agencies in this state, the
	department shall develop and implement a statewide silver alert to
	be activated on behalf of a missing senior citizen or person with
	Alzheimer's disease.
	SECTION 4.  Section 411.383(b), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b)  The director shall adopt rules and issue directives as
	necessary to ensure proper implementation of the alert. The rules
	and directives must include:
	(1)  the procedures to be used by a local law
	enforcement agency to verify whether a person reported missing is a
	senior citizen with [:
	[(A)  is missing; and
	[(B)  has] an impaired mental condition or a
	person with Alzheimer's disease and whether the person's location
	is unknown;
	(2)  a description of the circumstances under which a
	local law enforcement agency is required to report a missing senior
	citizen or person with Alzheimer's disease to the department; and
	(3)  the procedures to be used by an individual or
	entity to report information about a missing senior citizen or
	person with Alzheimer's disease to designated media outlets in
	Texas.
	SECTION 5.  Section 411.386, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 411.386.  NOTIFICATION TO DEPARTMENT OF MISSING SENIOR
	CITIZEN OR PERSON WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. (a) A local law
	enforcement agency may notify the department if the agency:
	(1)  receives notice of a missing senior citizen or
	person with Alzheimer's disease;
	(2)  verifies that at the time the senior citizen or
	person with Alzheimer's disease is reported missing:
	(A)  the person reported missing:
	(i)  is 65 years of age or older and has an
	impaired mental condition; or
	(ii)  is a person with Alzheimer's disease;
	and
	(B)  the person's [senior citizen's] location is
	unknown; and
	[(C)     the senior citizen has an impaired mental
	condition; and]
	(3)  determines that the person's [senior citizen's]
	disappearance poses a credible threat to the person's [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 or person with Alzheimer's disease to
	provide documentation of the person's age and [senior citizen's
	impaired mental] condition to verify the person's status
	[condition] as described [required] by Subsection (a)(2)(A)
	[(a)(2)(C)]; and
	(2)  as soon as practicable, determine whether the
	person's [senior citizen's] disappearance poses a credible threat
	to the person's [senior citizen's] health and safety for purposes of
	Subsection (a)(3).
	SECTION 6.  Section 411.387(b), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b)  In issuing the alert, the department shall send the
	alert to designated media outlets in Texas. Following receipt of
	the alert, participating radio stations and[,] television
	stations[,] and other participating media outlets may issue the
	alert at designated intervals to assist in locating the missing
	senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's disease.
	SECTION 7.  Section 411.388, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 411.388.  CONTENT OF SILVER ALERT. The alert must
	include:
	(1)  all appropriate information that is provided by
	the local law enforcement agency and that may lead to the safe
	recovery of the missing senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's
	disease; and
	(2)  a statement instructing any person with
	information related to the missing senior citizen or person with
	Alzheimer's disease to contact a local law enforcement agency.
	SECTION 8.  Section 411.389, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 411.389.  TERMINATION OF SILVER ALERT. (a) The
	director shall terminate any activation of the alert with respect
	to a particular missing senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's
	disease not later than the earlier of the date on which:
	(1)  the missing person [senior citizen] is located or
	the situation is otherwise resolved; or
	(2)  the notification period ends, as determined by
	department rule.
	(b)  A local law enforcement agency that locates a missing
	senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's disease who is the
	subject of an alert under this subchapter shall notify the
	department as soon as possible that the missing person [senior
	citizen] has been located.
	SECTION 9.  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, 2017.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 2639 was passed by the House on May 4,
	2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 2639 on May 26, 2017, and requested the appointment of a
	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
	on H.B. No. 2639 on May 27, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 137,
	Nays 8, 2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 2639 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
	2639 on May 28, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor