HB 4362

HOUSE BILL NO. 4362
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:
TITLE
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 the 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) Upon the
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.