BILL REQ. #:  S-1394.1 

Read first time 02/09/2005.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to missing and runaway children; and amending RCW 13.32A.086.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 13.32A.086 and 1995 c 312 s 37 are each amended to read as follows:
     Whenever a law enforcement agency receives a report from a parent that his or her child, or child over whom the parent has custody, is missing or has without permission of the parent left the home or residence lawfully prescribed for the child under circumstances where the parent believes that the child is missing or has run away from the home or the residence, the agency shall provide for placing information identifying the child in files under RCW 43.43.510.
     If a law enforcement officer has reasonable cause to believe that a child is missing, has run away, or is otherwise absent from the parent's home without consent, the officer shall make a good faith effort to locate the child upon receipt of a report under this chapter or chapter 13.60 or 43.43 RCW. A law enforcement officer acting in good faith pursuant to the requirements of this section, and any entity of local or state government employing the officer, may not be held liable in any cause of action for civil damages based upon the requirements of this section.