House committee concurs to rename alert as ‘endangered adult advisory system’ in HB1523

The House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative & Military Affairs Committee voted to concur in Senate amendment number 1 to House Bill 1523 after Representative Dianne Vaught said the change makes the proposal an advisory rather than an alert.

Representative Dianne Vaught (R., District 87) told the committee that "whenever this got down to the Senate, the state police wanted to make just a few adjustments to the bill. Instead of it being like an alert, it becomes an advisory committee," and that the advisory "just won't put people maybe into a panic about something about somebody missing." She added, "I didn't see any issue with that. It won't be called the purple alert like we were kinda wanting it to be. It will just be, an endangered adult advisory system that they use."

The committee took no public testimony on the amendment. Committee members moved to concur with the Senate amendment and approved the motion by voice vote. No roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript; the motion was adopted by voice vote.

The amendment reflects a request attributed in the record to the state police and changes terminology from an "alert" system to an "advisory" system described in the meeting as an "endangered adult advisory system." The transcript does not specify statutory citations, implementation details, or what agency will administer the advisory beyond the reference to the state police.

No audience members spoke for or against the amendment during the meeting. The committee then proceeded to other business.