A bill up for a public hearing at the State Capitol on Thursday would add a "Green Alert' to state Silver and Amber alerts to notify the public when vulnerable veteran goes missing.

The bill was inspired by a Milwaukee man named Corey Adams. Adams was in the Airforce. He served four years on active duty and nearly 20 years in the reserves. He went on several tours to the Middle East. Over the past few years, he struggled with PTSD.

On March 20, Corey Adams' mother says she reported him missing to police a few hours after he missed a doctor's appointment.

She said she knew it was serious when she saw his wallet, glasses and medication still in the house. According to his family, It took the police department eight days to consider him critically missing.

"For a soldier to gone and have fought for his country and to come back and be missing and he doesn't meet the criteria, I thought that was just a disgrace," Corey's mother Gwendolyn Adams said.

Corey's body was found in a Milwaukee park 18 days after he went missing. They say they think the public would have been notified about his disappearance sooner, he would have been found.

"Had there been a green alert that was out there immediately I really believe that he would have been found," Adams said.

The bipartisan bill would add Green Alerts to the already existing Silver and Amer Alert systems. One of the bill's authors says it would be an easy way for the state and for the public to help veterans.

"When a veteran who is having mental issues goes missing everything should be done by everybody to get them help. That's all this bill does. The system is already in place," State Rep. Joel Kleefisch, one of the co authors of the bill said.

State Sen. LaTonya Johnson is authoring the Senate version of the bill.

Rep. Kleefisch says he's hoping to get the bill to the floor before the end of the session.