State Seal2 copy            Bill Number: H.B. 2098

            Engel Floor Amendment

            Reference to: JUDICIARY Committee amendment

            Amendment drafted by: Leg Council

 

 

FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION

 

1.   Requires a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing, kidnapped or runaway child, instead of immediately making a record entry in specified databases, to do all of the following:

a)   within two hours after receiving the report and all necessary and available information, submit specified information to the Arizona Crime Information Center, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer networks and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System;

b) within 30 days of the original entry of the record, verify and update the record with any additional information;

c)   institute or assist with appropriate search and investigative procedures;

d) maintain a close liaison with state and local child welfare systems and other organizations; and

e)   grant permission to the NCIC terminal contractor for Arizona to update the missing child record in the NCIC computer networks with additional information.

2.   Removes the requirement that a law enforcement agency that does not have access to specified databases must provide the reported information to the sheriff in the county where the report is received or the Department of Public Safety.


 

Fifty-fifth Legislature                                                     Engel

First Regular Session                                                   H.B. 2098

 

ENGEL FLOOR AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2098

(Reference to JUDICIARY Committee amendment)

 


Page 1, line 10, after "shall" strike remainder of line

Strike lines 11 through 13, insert "do all of the following:

1. Within two hours after receiving the report and all necessary and available information, submit the following information to the Arizona crime information center, the national crime information center computer networks and the national missing and unidentified persons system:

(a) The name, date of birth, sex, race, height, weight and eye and hair color of the child.

(b) A recent photograph of the child, if available.

(c) the date and location of the last known contact with the child.

(d) The category under which the child is reported missing.

2. Not later than thirty days after the original entry of the record, verify and update the record with any additional information, including, where available, medical and dental records and a photograph taken during the previous one hundred eighty days.

3. Institute or assist with appropriate search and investigative procedures.

4. Maintain a close liaison with state and local child welfare systems and the national center for missing and exploited children for the exchange of information and technical assistance in the missing child case.

5. Grant permission to the national crime information center terminal contractor for this state to update the missing child record in the national crime information center computer networks with additional information that is learned during the investigation and that relates to the missing child."

Page 1, strike lines 20 through 23

Page 2, strike lines 1 through 4

Amend title to conform


 

 

KIRSTEN ENGEL

 

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04/01/2021

02:26 PM

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