CHAPTER 106

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.

Approved May 10, 2024.