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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 1030

The Missing Persons Reporting and Identification Act; create to require input of missing persons in NAMUS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary A Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSING PERSONS REPORTING AND IDENTIFICATION ACT; TO REQUIRE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO ACCEPT A REPORT OF A MISSING PERSON; TO PERMIT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN DNA OF THE MISSING PERSON OR A REFERENCE SAMPLE FROM A FAMILY MEMBER'S DNA TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM (NAMUS) AND THE MISSISSIPPI FORENSIC DNA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM OR THE NATIONAL DNA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; TO PROHIBIT A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FROM ACCEPTING A MISSING PERSON REPORT; TO REQUIRE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO ACCEPT MISSING PERSON REPORTS IN PERSON; TO PROVIDE FOR THE INFORMATION THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SHALL ATTEMPT TO GATHER REGARDING THE MISSING PERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE; TO REQUIRE THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO GENERATE A REPORT OF THE MISSING PERSON WITHIN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM (NAMUS) IF THE PERSON IDENTIFIED REPORT REMAINS MISSING AFTER FIVE DAYS, BUT NOT MORE THAN FIFTEEN DAYS; TO DEFINE THE TERM "HIGH-RISK MISSING PERSON" AND THE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO ENSURE THAT THOSE PERSONS ARE INPUT IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM (NAMUS); TO REQUIRE THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING HOW TO PRIORITIZE ANALYSIS OF THE SAMPLES RELATING TO MISSING PERSON CASES; TO REQUIRE THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY ALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITHIN THIS STATE AND THE SURROUNDING REGION OF INFORMATION THAT WILL AID IN THE PROMPT LOCATION AND SAFE RETURN OF HIGH-RISK MISSING PERSONS; TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 43-15-401 AND 45-41-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 17 to February 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Feb 4 · stopped18 days

Judiciary AJan 17 to Feb 4 · stopped18 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 17 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 17Referred to the House committee on Judiciary A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To Judiciary AHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives