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Committee approves amendment and forwards bill creating missing Indigenous persons task force with $250,000 appropriation
Summary
The Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to House Bill 1199 that adds an attorney general designee to lead an information‑sharing effort; the bill creates a task force on missing persons, allocates $250,000 to the attorney general—s office for data and education work and passed out of committee 15–1.
The Appropriations Committee voted to approve an amended version of House Bill 1199, establishing a criminal‑justice information‑sharing mechanism and a task force focused on missing persons, including missing Indigenous people, and appropriating $250,000 from the general fund to the attorney general—s office for ongoing data and education activities.
Senator Scheibely (committee sponsor for the amendment) told the committee the bill will create a criminal‑justice data sharing structure to be administered by the attorney…
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