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HOUSE BILL 26
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HB 308/24 – JUD (PRE–FILED)
By: Delegate Healey
Requested: October 28, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Judiciary
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Public Safety – Missing Person Reports – Collection and Publication 2
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of State Police to compile and report on its 3
website certain information on missing person reports in the State; requiring a local 4
law enforcement agency to provide certain information on missing person reports to 5
the Department of State Police as required by the Department of State Police; 6
requiring the Department of State Police to adopt procedures for the collection of 7
information from local law enforcement agencies; and generally relating to missing 8
person cases. 9
BY adding to 10
Article – Public Safety 11
Section 3–609 12
Annotated Code of Maryland 13
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 14
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 15
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 16
Article – Public Safety 17
3–609. 18
(A) THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE SHALL COLLECT AND PUBLISH ON 19
ITS WEBSITE INFORMAT ION ON MISSING P ERSON REPORTS IN THE STATE. 20
(B) THE INFORMATION PUBLI SHED UNDER SUBSECTIO N (A) OF THIS 21
SECTION SHALL : 22
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(1) BE DISAGGREGATED BY AGE, RACE, AND REPORTING COUNTY ; 1
AND 2
(2) PROVIDE THE NUMBER O F RESOLVED MISSING P ERSON REPORTS 3
IN THE PRECEDING MON TH. 4
(C) ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31 EACH YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF 5
STATE POLICE SHALL PUBLISH ON ITS WEBSITE A SUM MARY OF ALL INFORMAT ION 6
ON MISSING PERSON RE PORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS SECTION FOR THE 7
PRECEDING CALENDAR Y EAR. 8
(D) EACH LOCAL LAW ENFORC EMENT AGENCY SHALL PROVIDE THE 9
DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE WITH INFORMATI ON REGARDING ANY MIS SING 10
PERSON WITHIN THE JU RISDICTION OF THE AG ENCY AS REQUIRED BY THE 11
DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE. 12
(E) THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE SHALL ADOPT PR OCEDURES 13
NECESSARY FOR THE CO LLECTION OF INFORMAT ION PROVIDED BY LOCA L LAW 14
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AS REQUIRED UNDER SU BSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION. 15
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 16
1, 2026. 17