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LouisianaSB 342026 Regular SessionSenate

PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT: Provides relative to alerts for missing persons. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Patrick McMath (Republican)

Signed by Governor

JudiciaryHealth and Welfare

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Bill Overview

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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Immediate alerts for vulnerable missing people

Local police with alert capability must immediately issue an alert for a report meeting the Bryan’s Call criteria. Otherwise, they must immediately contact Louisiana State Police to issue it. Local officers must reasonably try to choose the alert type, but State Police makes the final choice. State Police must send a local or statewide wireless emergency alert when the request arrives within 72 hours of disappearance. Police must try to share information as quickly as possible; the law took effect upon the governor’s signature.

Missing-person training available for first responders

Louisiana State Police must make missing-person training available when first responders request it. Training covers missing children, abductions, child endangerment, and cases involving cognitive or developmental disabilities. It also covers how to use the alert systems.

Special alerts for vulnerable missing people

Louisiana law establishes three missing-person alert types. AMBER Alerts cover children 17 or younger believed abducted and facing serious bodily harm or death, when enough identifying information is available. Level II Endangered Missing Child Advisories cover endangered children whose cases do not meet AMBER criteria. A Level II advisory for a child 17 or younger, or a Silver Alert for an adult 18 or older, gets the Bryan’s Call label when the person poses no public risk and meets the impairment criteria. The person must be believed to have a developmental or cognitive impairment, or permanent loss of mental abilities, preventing self-care or seeking help without assistance. Examples include autism, traumatic brain injury, Down syndrome, and Sanfilippo syndrome. Silver Alerts remain linked to existing state procedures.

Legal protection for missing-person alert participants

The law protects police, broadcasters, cable operators, and other alert participants from civil damages or criminal penalties for covered actions. Protection applies to Level II child advisories and identifying an alert as Bryan’s Call. It includes transmitting or displaying information, and failing to do either. These protections also limit legal claims over covered alert activity.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Patrick McMath

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Bob Hensgens

    Republican • Senate

  • Caleb Kleinpeter

    Republican • Senate

  • Cameron Henry

    Republican • Senate

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Edward J. Price

    Democratic • Senate

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Gerald Boudreaux

    Democratic • Senate

  • Glen Womack

    Republican • Senate

  • Gregory A. Miller

    Republican • Senate

  • Jay Luneau

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jeremy Stine

    Republican • Senate

  • Jimmy Harris

    Democratic • Senate

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Larry Selders

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

  • Robert "Bob" Owen

    Republican • Senate

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sidney Barthelemy II

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

House vote • 5/18/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/15/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 347.

    5/22/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 5/22/2026.

    5/22/2026Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/20/2026Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/19/2026House

  6. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/18/2026House

  8. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/12/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/11/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/7/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    4/21/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/20/2026House

  14. Called from the Calendar.

    4/15/2026Senate

  15. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/15/2026Senate

  16. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    4/8/2026Senate

  17. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/7/2026Senate

  18. Reported with amendments.

    4/1/2026Senate

  19. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026Senate

  20. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/6/2026Senate

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