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IN HB1378
Bill
Status
1/14/2015
Primary Sponsor
John Bartlett
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AI Summary
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Creates the Indiana missing and unidentified persons unit within the attorney general's office, replacing the existing clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults.
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Establishes Amber alert and silver alert programs to transmit information about abducted persons and missing endangered adults to broadcasters and electronic billboard operators for immediate dissemination to the public.
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Expands missing persons laws to cover all people of any age, not just missing children and missing endangered adults, with a unified reporting and tracking system.
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Requires the state police superintendent to establish a DNA database and grants the missing and unidentified persons unit access to all information in the database for identification purposes.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Missing and unidentified persons. Creates the Indiana missing and unidentified persons unit (unit) within the attorney general's office. Repeals the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults (clearinghouse). Transfers the duties of the clearinghouse to the unit. Expands abducted children and missing endangered adult laws to include all people. Requires the superintendent of the state police department to establish a DNA data base, and allows the unit access to the DNA data base. (Current law allows the superintendent to establish the data base.)
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform
1/14/2015