BILL REQ. #: H-3805.1
| State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2012 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/27/12. Referred to Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness.
AN ACT Relating to criminalizing the failure to report the death or disappearance of a child within a specified time by certain persons responsible for the care of the child; adding a new chapter to Title 9A RCW; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 Any parent, legal guardian, or caregiver who
knowingly fails to notify law enforcement within forty-eight hours of
learning that a child, in his or her care and less than thirteen years
of age, is missing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 Any parent, legal guardian, or caregiver who
knowingly fails to notify law enforcement within six hours of learning
of the death of a minor child in his or her care is guilty of a class
C felony.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3 Sections 1 and 2 of this act constitute a
new chapter in Title