HB 1943 - DIGEST

Provides that, when a person reported missing has not been found and criminal activity is suspected to be the basis of the victim being missing, the sheriff, chief of police, county coroner, or county medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority initiating and conducting the investigation for the missing person shall, within forty-eight hours of suspecting the criminal activity immediately file a report, collect DNA samples from the known missing person, and ask the missing person's family or next of kin to give written consent to contact the dentist or dentists of the missing person and request the person's dental records.

Provides that, in cases where criminal activity is suspected, the state patrol shall immediately submit the DNA samples and the dental records in the missing person data base and shall forward copies of the DNA samples and dental records to the federal bureau of investigation within seventy-two hours upon receipt of the evidence of the known missing person.