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Senate committee advances bill to boost missing-person reporting and expand NamUs entries
Summary
A Senate panel approved amendments to a House Judiciary B bill that would require law enforcement to upload unresolved missing-person reports and unentered remains into NamUs and extend a related fraud statute limit from seven to ten years; members asked for a fiscal note on implementation costs.
A Senate committee voted to advance a bill passed by the House Judiciary B Committee that aims to increase reporting to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) and to align a related fraud statute's limitations period with prior Senate language.
The committee approved an amendment to change a statute-of-limitations provision from seven years to 10 years and adopted a strike-all rewrite before passing the measure as amended. Sponsor Senator Sparks said the…
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