TITLE: Relating to the criteria for issuing a silver alert for a missing senior citizen.

SUMMARY: Relating to the criteria for issuing a silver alert for a missing senior citizen.

FULL TEXT:
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(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) The local law enforcement agency [shall]:(1) may 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); and (2) shall, 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.