HB 2169 Summary

• Law enforcement agencies must accept missing person reports without delay or refusal, regardless of the person's age, duration of disappearance, or whether circumstances suggest voluntary disappearance.

• Agencies must gather and attempt to obtain detailed information about missing persons, including physical descriptions, identifying marks, photographs, contact information for known abductors, and any circumstances indicating risk of injury or death.

• High-risk missing persons (those missing under suspicious circumstances, from abduction, missing over 30 days, or at medical/safety risk) must be reported to the Department of Public Safety within two hours, which shall notify all law enforcement agencies statewide and enter information into national databases within two hours.

• Counties must transfer unidentified human remains to medical examiners, who must obtain DNA samples, photographs, dental/skeletal x-rays, and fingerprints before disposal and enter this information into state and federal databases within specified timeframes.

• Law enforcement must provide families of missing persons with contact information for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (for minors) or the Association of Missing and Exploited Children Organizations (for adults).