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Committee approves bill to codify ‘purple alert’ for people with developmental disabilities
Summary
The House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative & Military Affairs Committee voted to advance a bill that would add a state-level “purple alert” to the missing-persons alert system to help locate people aged 18–65 with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Representative Dean Vaught on behalf of the bill introduced House Bill 1523, asking the committee to add a “purple alert” to the state’s missing-persons notification system and to move language currently governed by an executive order into law. “So today, bringing a bill to try to add the purple alert to what we thought was in legislation of the silver and amber alert,” Vaught said.
The measure would create a purple alert for adults aged 18 to 65 with intellectual and developmental disabilities and add…
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