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Caucus notes name change and expansion of Silver Alert to include cognitively disabled children
Summary
Representative Powell said the alert program was renamed from "Silver Alert" to "Seek and Find" when provisions were added to cover cognitively disabled children.
Representative Powell told the caucus she concurs with the Senate amendments to the bill that began as a Silver Alert measure and now includes cognitively disabled children.
Powell said the bill originally focused on the Silver Alert concept but, after adding provisions to cover children with cognitive disabilities, sponsors changed the name to "Seek and Find" to provide more active wording. "When we added the, disabled cognitive impaired children to the bill, we actually changed the name from Silver Alert to Seek and Find, so it actually triggers people by 2 active words. You know, words of action like seek and find. And so that's all this was, was just that amendment with the name," Powell said.
The caucus recorded concurrence and a brief explanation of the amendment and name change; no roll-call votes or implementation specifics were recorded in the excerpt provided.
