HB 2102

                                                PRINTER'S NO.   2705
                THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                    HOUSE BILL
                    No. 2102
                                          Session of
                                            2025
INTRODUCED BY LEADBETER, STEHR, STENDER, HAMM, MARCELL, SHAFFER,
   TOMLINSON, TWARDZIK, WATRO, WALSH, BASHLINE, SCIALABBA,
   SOLOMON, ROWE, GILLEN, D'ORSIE, GLEIM, KLUNK, KUZMA, PUGH,
   DAVIDSON AND PICKETT, DECEMBER 15, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, DECEMBER 15, 2025
                               AN ACT
1 Amending the act of November 24, 2004 (P.L.1270, No.153),
2    entitled "An act providing for the Pennsylvania Amber Alert
3    System; authorizing and directing the Pennsylvania State
4    Police to establish and maintain the Pennsylvania Amber Alert
5    System; assessing costs; and providing for immunity and
6    penalties," further providing for title of the act, for
7    Pennsylvania Amber Alert System and Missing Endangered Person
8    Advisory System (MEPAS) established and for immunity.
9    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11    Section 1.    The title of the act of November 24, 2004
12 (P.L.1270, No.153), referred to as the Pennsylvania Amber Alert
13 System Law, is amended to read:
14AN ACT
15 Providing for the Pennsylvania Amber Alert System, the Missing
16    Endangered Person Advisory System and the Pennsylvania Purple
17    Alert System; authorizing and directing the Pennsylvania
18    State Police to establish and maintain [the Pennsylvania
19    Amber Alert System] Pennsylvania's alert systems; assessing
20    costs; and providing for immunity and penalties.
1    Section 2.     Section 1 heading of the act is amended and the
2 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
3 Section 1.     Pennsylvania Amber Alert System [and], Missing
4Endangered Person Advisory System (MEPAS) and
5Pennsylvania Purple Alert System established.
6    * * *
7    (c)   Pennsylvania Purple Alert System.--
8(1)   The Pennsylvania State Police shall establish and
9    maintain the Pennsylvania Purple Alert System to assist in
10    the recovery of a missing qualifying individual who is at
11    special risk of harm or injury, through prompt notification
12    to the general public, appropriate law enforcement
13    authorities and other public agencies.
14(2)   For purposes of paragraph (1), the term "qualifying
15    individual" means an individual with a diagnosed
16    intellectual, developmental, cognitive or neurological
17    condition, including autism spectrum disorder, Alzheimer's
18    disease when the individual is under the age of 60, dementia
19    when the individual is under the age of 60, a traumatic brain
20    injury or similar impairments.
21    Section 3.     Section 5(b) of the act is amended to read:
22 Section 5.     Immunity.
23    * * *
24    (b)   Good Samaritan immunity.--Any person who provides,
25 obtains or attempts to provide or obtain assistance for a child
26 who is the subject of a Pennsylvania Amber Alert System notice
27 [or], a person who is the subject of a Missing Endangered Person
28 Advisory or a person who is the subject of a Pennsylvania Purple
29 Alert System notice shall be immune from civil liability for
30 acts or omissions in providing or obtaining or attempting to
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1 provide or obtain assistance except for acts or omissions
2 intended to cause harm and for which the law does not recognize
3 justification or that constitute gross negligence or willful,
4 wanton or reckless conduct.
5    Section 4.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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