Iowa 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

SF 64 — A bill for an act relating to the use of a mass notification and emergency messaging system for endangered missing persons.

Last action — Subcommittee: Thompson, Cohoon and Deyoe.

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Senate File 64 - Introduced SENATE FILE 64 BY ZAUN A BILL FOR An Act relating to the creation of a green alert program for missing veterans-at-risk.
Senate File 64 - Reprinted SENATE FILE 64 BY ZAUN (As Amended and Passed by the Senate March 25, 2019) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the use of a mass notification and emergency messaging system for endangered missing persons.
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Section 694.1, subsection 1, Code 2019, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
Section 29C.17A, subsection 3, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
NEW PARAGRAPH .
e.
Is a veteran-at-risk.
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Section 694.1, Code 2019, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION.
“Veteran-at-risk” means a veteran as defined in section 35.1 or an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, a member of a reserve component thereof, or a member of the national guard who, based on the information provided by a person filing a complaint pursuant to section 694.2, is a veteran or member with a physical or mental health condition related to the military service of the veteran or member.
Information disseminated to the public through the mass notification and emergency messaging system shall be limited to imminent emergency and public safety-related issues.
For purposes of this section, a “public safety-related issue” includes the circumstances described in subsection 3A.
The department may provide access to the system for use at the county and local level.
Access by a county or local government shall be at the department’s sole discretion, and if approved by the department, shall be under the control of the local commission.
The commission shall establish an operational plan and procedure which meets standards adopted by the department by rule, and shall submit the operational plan and procedure for approval by the department prior to access being granted.
Additional access criteria and procedures for administering the fund shall be established by the department by rule.
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NEW SECTION.
694.5A Green alert program for missing veterans-at-risk.
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For purposes of this section:
a.
“Department” means the department of public safety.
b.
“Green alert” means a public alert program for missing veterans-at-risk.
The department shall establish a green alert to require a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing person involving a veteran-at-risk to submit a request for a public alert to the state patrol as soon as practicable.
Section 29C.17A, Code 2019, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
The department shall implement activation procedures for a green alert by the same mechanisms currently used by the department for the public alert program for missing and abducted children.
NEW SUBSECTION .
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3A.
The department shall develop the criteria to be used in determining whether a green alert shall be issued by the state patrol.
The department shall adopt rules to utilize the mass notification and emergency messaging system to notify the public about an endangered missing person, together with information that could assist in locating and providing help to such a person.
The department shall develop the criteria in collaboration with the department of veterans affairs, the commission of veterans affairs, the United States department of veterans affairs, the department of human services, and the Iowa association of broadcasters.
For purposes of this subsection, “endangered missing person” means a person of any age who is missing, who may be in danger due to the person’s age or physical or mental health or due to severe weather conditions, and who may be unable to return to safety without assistance.
The criteria shall include but not be limited to the following:
“Endangered missing person” includes, without limitation, a veteran as defined in section 35.1 or an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, a member of a reserve component thereof, or a member of the national guard, who has a physical or mental health condition related to the military service of the veteran or member and who may be missing as a result of that condition.
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64 to a law enforcement agency within seventy-two hours of the veteran-at-risk’s disappearance.
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There is reason to believe the veteran-at-risk may be missing as a consequence of a physical or mental health condition related to the veteran-at-risk’s military service.
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There is sufficient information available to disseminate a green alert to the public that could assist in locating the missing veteran-at-risk.
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The department shall develop and disseminate to Iowa law enforcement agencies a form to be used in submitting a request to the state patrol for a green alert.
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The commissioner of public safety shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A consistent with the purposes of this section.
EXPLANATION The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
This bill relates to the creation of a green alert program for missing veterans-at-risk.
The bill adds “veteran-at-risk” to the definition of a “missing person” under Code section 694.1.
A “veteran-at-risk” is defined as a veteran or an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, a member of a reserve component thereof, or a member of the national guard who, based on the information provided by a person filing a complaint pursuant to Code section 694.2, is a veteran or member with a physical or mental health condition related to the military service of the veteran or member.
Under Code sections 694.2 and 694.3, a person may file a complaint of a missing person with a law enforcement agency and the law enforcement agency is required to prepare, as soon as practicable, a report on the missing person.
Upon completion of the report, the law enforcement agency must disseminate the report to other law enforcement agencies pursuant to Code section 694.4.
The bill directs the department of public safety to LSB 1144XS (5) 88 -2- mo/rh 2/3 S.F.
64 establish a green alert, which is defined in the bill as a public alert program for missing veterans-at-risk, requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing person involving a veteran-at-risk to submit a request for a public alert to the state patrol as soon as practicable.
The green alert shall be implemented in a substantially similar fashion as the activation procedures used for an AMBER alert pursuant to administrative rules of the department of public safety relating to missing and abducted children.
The bill requires the department of public safety to develop the criteria to be used by the state patrol in determining whether a green alert shall be issued.
The criteria shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) a report of a missing veteran-at-risk must be provided to a law enforcement agency within 72 hours of the veteran-at-risk’s disappearance;
(2) there is reason to believe the veteran-at-risk may be missing as a consequence of a physical or mental health condition that is related to the veteran-at-risk’s military service;
and (3) there is sufficient information available to disseminate a green alert to the public that could assist in locating the missing veteran-at-risk.
The bill requires the department of public safety to develop and disseminate to law enforcement agencies a form to be used in submitting a request to the state patrol for a green alert, and requires the department of public safety to adopt rules consistent with the provisions of the bill.
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Action History

  1. Subcommittee: Thompson, Cohoon and Deyoe.

  2. Read first time, referred to State Government.

  3. Message from Senate.

  4. Immediate message.

  5. Passed Senate, yeas 50, nays 0.

  6. Amendment S-3068 filed, adopted.

  7. Committee report, recommending passage.

  8. Subcommittee: Lofgren, Danielson, and Dawson.

  9. Introduced, referred to Veterans Affairs.

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