Bill Text: TX HB2660 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to duties and procedures and to training programs for law enforcement agencies regarding missing children and missing persons.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2660 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2660-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to duties and procedures and to training programs for law enforcement agencies regarding missing children and missing persons.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2660 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2660-Introduced.html
By: Oliverson | H.B. No. 2660 |
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relating to the duties of a law enforcement agency regarding | ||
missing children and missing persons. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 63.009(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A law enforcement agency, on receiving a report of a | ||
missing child or missing person, shall: | ||
(1) if the subject of the report is a child and the | ||
child is at a high risk of harm or is otherwise in danger or if the | ||
subject of the report is a person who is known by the agency to have | ||
or is reported to have chronic dementia, including Alzheimer's | ||
dementia, whether caused by illness, brain defect, or brain injury, | ||
immediately start an investigation in order to determine the | ||
present location of the child or person; | ||
(2) if the subject of the report is a child or person | ||
other than a child or person described by Subdivision (1), start an | ||
investigation with due diligence in order to determine the present | ||
location of the child or person; | ||
(3) immediately, but not later than two hours after | ||
receiving the report, enter the name of the child or person into the | ||
clearinghouse and the national crime information center missing | ||
person file if the child or person meets the center's criteria, and | ||
report that name to the Alzheimer's Association Safe Return | ||
emergency response center if applicable, with all available | ||
identifying features such as dental records, fingerprints, other | ||
physical characteristics, and a description of the clothing worn | ||
when last seen, and all available information describing any person | ||
reasonably believed to have taken or retained the missing child or | ||
missing person; | ||
(4) not later than the 60th day after the date the | ||
agency receives the report, enter the name of the child or person | ||
into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, with all | ||
available identifying features such as dental records, | ||
fingerprints, other physical characteristics, and a description of | ||
the clothing worn when last seen, and all available information | ||
describing any person reasonably believed to have taken or retained | ||
the missing child or missing person; [ |
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(5) electronically submit to each municipal or county | ||
law enforcement agency within 200 miles the report and any | ||
information that may help determine the present location of the | ||
child or person within 48 hours; and | ||
(6) inform the person who filed the report of the | ||
missing child or missing person that the information will be: | ||
(A) entered into the clearinghouse, the national | ||
crime information center missing person file, and the National | ||
Missing and Unidentified Persons System; [ |
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(B) reported to the Alzheimer's Association Safe | ||
Return emergency response center if applicable; and | ||
(C) submitted to each municipal or county law | ||
enforcement agency within 200 miles. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a report of a missing child or missing person that is made to a | ||
law enforcement agency on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
A report of a missing child or missing person that is made to a law | ||
enforcement agency before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the report was made, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |