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Committee advances bill to let out-of-state officers assist Missouri agencies and clarifies emergency-vehicle rules
Summary
Committee approved House Bill 225 to expand mutual-aid authority for out-of-state law enforcement and to adjust emergency motor-vehicle rules for pacing and response on state highways; proponents cited World Cup and past national deployments, opponents raised public-safety concerns about unmarked pacing.
The House Committee on Crime and Public Safety voted to advance House Bill 225, which would expand the state's statutory framework for out‑of‑state law-enforcement personnel to operate in Missouri at the request of a chief executive officer of a law-enforcement agency, and would clarify certain emergency motor-vehicle exceptions for pursuing or pacing vehicles on state highways.
Representative Myers, the bill sponsor, told the panel the mutual-aid component mirrors compacts used for other major events and disasters and “it establishes that if they are, acting in a law enforcement capacity, they do something under the color of law, they're able to pass that…
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