COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH
OVERSIGHT DIVISION
FISCAL NOTE
L.R. No.:5552H.02C Bill No.:HCS for HB 2699 Subject:Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; Criminal Procedure Type:Original Date:March 30, 2022Bill Summary:This proposal requires law enforcement agencies to submit missing person
cases to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
FISCAL SUMMARY
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON GENERAL REVENUE FUNDFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on General
Revenue $0$0$0
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON OTHER STATE FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on Other State
Funds $0$0$0
Numbers within parentheses: () indicate costs or losses. L.R. No. 5552H.02C
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ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FEDERAL FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on All Federal
Funds $0$0$0
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FULL TIME EQUIVALENT (FTE)FUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on FTE 000
☐ Estimated Net Effect (expenditures or reduced revenues) expected to exceed $250,000 in any
of the three fiscal years after implementation of the act or at full implementation of the act.
☐ Estimated Net Effect (savings or increased revenues) expected to exceed $250,000 in any of
the three fiscal years after implementation of the act or at full implementation of the act.
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON LOCAL FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Local Government$0$0$0 L.R. No. 5552H.02C
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FISCAL ANALYSIS
ASSUMPTION
Officials from the Department of Public Safety - Missouri Highway Patrol, the Kansas City
Police Department, the St. Joseph Police DepartmentPhelps County Sheriff’s
Department each assume the proposal will have no fiscal impact on their respective
organizations. Oversight does not have any information to the contrary. Therefore, Oversight
will reflect a zero impact in the fiscal note.
Officials from the St. Louis County Police Department state the proposed legislation would
require local law enforcement agencies to add current photos of missing persons to all reports
within ten days from the date the report was initially filed. Ultimately, this legislation would
have a fiscal impact on the Department.
There would be a need for policy revision to the Department’s current procedures regarding the
entry of all missing persons both juvenile and adult. Policy revision would require 8 hours of
policy research and 4 hours of policy authoring. The average hourly wage of the policy
development position is $46.69. The total cost of policy development is $560.28 (12 hours x
$46.69).
Police Report Clerks would be expected to upload the photo with the missing person report and
entry; therefore, additional training would need to occur. The average salary of Police Report
Clerk including fringe benefits is $28.70 per hour with 16 clerks that would need at least 30
minutes of training or review. This cost would amount to $229.60 for training (16 clerks x
$28.70 x 0.5 hours).
Additionally, the requirement to add a current photo of a missing person would create an
additional five minutes of work for the report clerk. This cost may be difficult to estimate since
missing person cases within the Department often fluctuate from year to year. However, in 2021
the Department took 177 missing person reports for adults. If the Department uses 177 and
figures each one takes a report clerk an additional 5 minutes to upload a photo, this equates to
approximately 885 minutes (177 x 5) or around 14.75 hours of additional work. At $28.70 per
hour, this amounts to $423.33. Therefore, the total estimated cost for this legislation is at least
$1,213.21 ($560.28 + $229.60 + $423.33).
Oversight notes this proposal changes the requirement of a law enforcement agency receiving
the complaint of a missing person to attempt to locate current photos of the missing person and
to scan the photos and enter them into MULES, NCIC, and NamUS from within 10 days of
receiving the complaint to as soon as practical.
Oversight assumes the St. Louis County Police Department could absorb the costs related to this
proposal. L.R. No. 5552H.02C
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Oversight notes the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/ is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for
missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States. It is funded and
administered by the National Institute of Justice. All resources are provided at no cost to law
enforcement, medical examiners, allied forensic professionals, and family members of missing
persons.
Oversight only reflects the responses received from state agencies and political subdivisions;
however, other police and sheriff’s departments were requested to respond to this proposed
legislation but did not. A listing of political subdivisions included in the Missouri Legislative
Information System (MOLIS) database is available upon request.
FISCAL IMPACT – State GovernmentFY 2023
(10 Mo.)
FY 2024FY 2025$0$0$0FISCAL IMPACT – Local GovernmentFY 2023
(10 Mo.)
FY 2024FY 2025$0$0$0
FISCAL IMPACT – Small Business
No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.
FISCAL DESCRIPTION
The proposed legislation appears to have no direct fiscal impact.
This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not
require additional capital improvements or rental space. L.R. No. 5552H.02C
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Department of Public Safety - Missouri Highway Patrol
Kansas City Police Department
St. Joseph Police Department
St. Louis County Police Department
Phelps County Sheriff’s Department
Julie MorffRoss StropeDirectorAssistant DirectorMarch 30, 2022March 30, 2022