HB 647 Summary

• Establishes "Caylee's Law" requiring parents, guardians, or legal custodians to report missing children to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovery of the child's unknown whereabouts

• Makes it a crime for parents or guardians to fail to report a missing child, classified as endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree (Class A misdemeanor, or Class B felony if death or serious injury occurs)

• Requires parents, guardians, or legal custodians to notify law enforcement within one hour of discovering a child's dead body or acquiring knowledge of a child's death

• Makes failure to report a child's death a crime of abandonment of a corpse (Class D felony)

• Requires law enforcement agencies to immediately enter missing person complaints into MULES and NCIC systems and prohibits agencies from preventing investigations based on automatic time limitations