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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *hb1031* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 1031 |
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| 8 | 8 | | E4 3lr2321 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegate Healey |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 10, 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Judiciary |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | Public Safety – Missing Person Reports – Collection and Publication 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of State Police to compile and report on its 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | website certain information on missing person reports in the State; requiring a local 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | law enforcement agency to provide certain information on missing person reports to 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | the Department as required by the Department; requiring the Department to adopt 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | procedures for the collection of information from local law enforcement agencies; and 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | generally relating to missing person cases. 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | BY adding to 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Article – Public Safety 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 3–608 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 12 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2022 Replacement Volume) 13 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14 |
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| 34 | 34 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Article – Public Safety 16 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 3–608. 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE SHALL COLLECT AND PUBLISH ON 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ITS WEBSITE INFORMATION ON MISSING PERSON REPORTS IN THE STATE. 19 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (B) THE INFORMATION PUBLISHE D UNDER SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS 20 |
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| 44 | 44 | | SECTION SHALL : 21 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) BE DISAGGREGATED BY AGE , RACE, AND REPORTING COUNTY ; 22 |
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| 47 | 47 | | AND 23 2 HOUSE BILL 1031 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF RESOLVED MISSING PERSON REPORTS 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | IN THE PRECEDING MON TH. 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (C) ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31 EACH YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | STATE POLICE SHALL PUBLISH ON ITS WEBSITE A SUM MARY OF ALL INFORMATION 4 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ON MISSING PERSON REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS SECTION FOR THE 5 |
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| 57 | 57 | | PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR. 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (D) EACH LOCAL LAW ENFORC EMENT AGENCY SHALL P ROVIDE THE 7 |
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| 60 | 60 | | DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE WITH INFORMATION REGARDING ANY MISSING 8 |
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| 61 | 61 | | PERSON WITHIN THE JU RISDICTION OF THE AG ENCY AS REQUIRED BY THE 9 |
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| 62 | 62 | | DEPARTMENT . 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (E) THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE SHALL ADOPT PROCEDURES 11 |
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| 65 | 65 | | NECESSARY FOR THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION PROVI DED BY LOCAL LAW 12 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AS REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION. 13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | 1, 2024. 15 |
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