HOUSE BILL No. 2531
AN ACT establishing the Kansas purple alert plan; relating to public notice of missing
persons 18 years of age or older who have been diagnosed with an intellectual
disability and are in certain dangerous circumstances.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) There is hereby established the Kansas purple alert
plan to provide public notice of a missing individual with intellectual or
developmental disabilities. The Kansas purple alert plan shall be
established and implemented by the office of the attorney general, in
collaboration with the Kansas bureau of investigation, Kansas highway
patrol, local law enforcement agencies and other public and private
agencies and organizations.
(b) Under the Kansas purple alert plan, public notice of a missing
individual may promptly be broadcast and a search may be timely
undertaken with the cooperation of local law enforcement, news media
and the general public in order to locate such individual in time to
avoid serious harm or death if such individual:
(1) Is 18 years of age or older;
(2) has been diagnosed with an intellectual disability;
(3) whose whereabouts are unknown;
(4) is believed to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or
death because of such disability; and
(5) is believed to be unable to return to safety without assistance.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the HOUSE, and was
adopted by that body
HOUSE adopted
Conference Committee Report
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the SENATE
as amended
SENATE adopted
Conference Committee Report
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED
Governor.