Bill Text: MI HB5397 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Law enforcement: reports; notification of the public by text message of a missing senior or vulnerable adult; provide for. Amends title & sec. 5 of 2012 PA 176 (MCL 28.715).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/16/2024 [HB5397 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5397-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5397
A bill to amend 2012 PA 176, entitled
"Mozelle senior or vulnerable adult medical alert act,"
by amending the title and section 5 (MCL 28.715).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to prescribe the senior or vulnerable adult medical alert as the official response to reports of certain missing persons; to provide for the broadcast of information regarding those incidents; and to provide for certain civil immunity; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.
Sec. 5. (1) After obtaining the information identified in section 3, the law enforcement agency shall as soon as practicable forward that information to all of the following:
(a) All law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing senior or vulnerable adult resides and all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing senior or vulnerable adult was last seen.
(b) All law enforcement agencies to which the person who made the notification concerning the missing senior or vulnerable adult requests the report be sent, if the law enforcement agency determines that the request is reasonable in light of the information received.
(c) All law enforcement agencies that request a copy of the report.
(d) One or more broadcasters that broadcast in an area where the missing senior or vulnerable adult may be located.
(2) Upon completion of the report required by under section 3, a law enforcement agency may forward a copy of the contents of the report to 1 or more newspapers distributed in an area where the missing senior or vulnerable adult may be located.
(3) After forwarding the contents of the report to a broadcaster or newspaper under this section, the law enforcement agency shall request that the broadcaster or newspaper do both of the following:
(a) Notify the public that there is a missing senior or vulnerable adult medical alert.
(b) Broadcast or publish a description of the missing senior or vulnerable adult and any other relevant information that would assist in locating the missing senior or vulnerable adult.
(4) The department of state police shall establish and maintain the missing senior or vulnerable adult medical alert system plan.
(5) The missing senior or vulnerable adult medical alert system plan must be designed to rapidly disseminate useful information in a predetermined manner to wireless devices through the existing wireless emergency medical alert system operated under federal law.
(6) The missing senior or vulnerable adult medical alert system plan may be activated only after a report is completed under section 3 and only in accordance with the policies established by the department of state police.
(7) On completion of the report required under section 3, a law enforcement agency shall notify the department of state police of the missing senior or vulnerable adult and request that a medical alert be issued under the missing senior or vulnerable adult medical alert system plan.
