Existing law authorizes a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate a Silver Alert, as defined, if the agency receives a report of a missing person who is 65 years of age or older, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, and certain conditions are met, including that all local resources have been utilized and the disappearance is unexplained or suspicious. Upon concurrence by the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the precedent conditions have been met, existing law requires the patrol to issue the alert, which may take the form of a be-on-the-lookout alert, an Emergency Digital Information Service message, or an electronic flyer, within a specified geographical area.
California AB 643 (20152016) — Emergency services: Silver Alerts.
Existing law authorizes a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate a Silver Alert, as defined, if the agency receives a report of a missing person who is 65 years of age or older, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, and certain conditions are met, including that all local resources have been utilized and the disappearance is unexplained or suspicious. Upon concurrence by the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the precedent conditions have been met, existing law requires the patrol to issue the alert, which may take the form of a be-on-the-lookout alert, an Emergency Digital Information Service message, or an electronic flyer, within a specified geographical area.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
2015-03-09 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
2015-04-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-04-08 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1479.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2015-05-28 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
2015-06-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2015-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2277.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-08-31 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2015-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 332, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2f26091-c5b3-44eb-837f-be07f48e470f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).