SB1830 • 2026

turquoise alert; runaways

SB1830 - turquoise alert; runaways

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Catherine Miranda, Sally Ann Gonzales, Priya Sundareshan, Oscar De Los Santos
Last action: 2026-02-09
Official status: Senate second read
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on the frequency of turquoise alerts or their effectiveness.

Turquoise Alert for Runaways

This bill amends existing laws to establish requirements and definitions for the turquoise alert system, which helps find missing people under age 65 who are in danger or have gone missing under suspicious circumstances.

What This Bill Does

Establishes a quick response system called the turquoise alert to help find missing persons.
Requires law enforcement agencies to use all available local resources before requesting a turquoise alert.
Specifies that a turquoise alert can be issued if there is information available that could assist in finding the missing person and they are believed to be in danger or with someone dangerous, or if they are a runaway child.
Allows the department to share turquoise alert information with other similar notification services.

Who It Names or Affects

Law enforcement agencies
Missing persons under age 65 who may be in danger or have gone missing under suspicious circumstances

Terms To Know

Turquoise alert system: A quick response system designed to issue alerts when a person is reported missing and believed to be in danger.
Authorized person: Someone at a law enforcement agency who can request the activation of an emergency alert for a missing person case.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if there is no information available to help find the missing person.
It's unclear how often turquoise alerts will be issued or their effectiveness in finding missing persons.

Bill History

2026-02-09 Senate
Senate second read
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate Rules: None
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate Public Safety: None
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate first read

Official Summary Text

SB1830 - turquoise alert; runaways

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

SB1830 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
turquoise alert; runaways

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1830

Introduced by

Senators
Miranda: Gonzales, Sundareshan;� Representative De Los Santos

AN
ACT

Amending section 41-1728.01, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to public safety.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 41-1728.01, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

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41-1728.01.

Turquoise alert system; requirements; definitions

A. The department shall establish the turquoise

alert system as a quick response system designed to
issue and coordinate alerts following the report of a missing person.

B. On the request of an authorized person at a law
enforcement agency that is investigating a report of a missing person, the
department shall request an activation of the emergency alert system and issue
a turquoise

alert if all of the following
conditions are met:

1. The missing person is under sixty-five
years of age.

2. The law enforcement agency investigating the
missing person report:

(a) Has used all available local resources.

(b) Has determined that the person
is
a runaway, if the person is a child, has been kidnapped or
has gone
missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.

(c) Believes that the missing person is in danger or
that the missing person is in the company of a potentially dangerous person or
that there are other factors indicating that the missing person may be in
peril.

3. There is information available that, if
disseminated to the public, could assist in the safe recovery of the missing
person.

4. The department has been designated to use the
federally authorized emergency alert system for the issuance of turquoise

alerts.

C. If the department issues a turquoise

alert pursuant to this section, the department shall
provide the turquoise alert information to any other entity that provides
similar notifications in this state.

D. The department shall issue a
TURQUOISE alert whether or not the department has determined whether the
missing person has been kidnapped or is a r
unaway
,
if the person is a child
.

D.

E.
For
the purposes of this section:

1. "Law enforcement agency" means the
Arizona
department of public safety, a municipal police
department, a county sheriff's office, a tribal law enforcement agency
and

or
a federal law enforcement agency
that operates within this state.

2. "Person" includes a member of a
federally recognized Indian Tribe.
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