Bill Text: CA AB2279 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Bureau of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-22 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. [AB2279 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2279-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2279

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Introduced by Assembly Members Cervantes and Ramos

February 08, 2024

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An act relating to state government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2279, as introduced, Cervantes. Bureau of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Existing law establishes a Rural Indian Crime Prevention Program to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to provide training to officers and to provide specified services to Native American persons and communities.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies and tribal governments relating to tribal issues, including providing guidance for law enforcement education and training on policing and criminal investigations on Indian lands, providing guidance on improving crime reporting, crime statistics, criminal procedures, and investigative tools, and facilitating and supporting improved communication between local law enforcement agencies and tribal governments.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to create a Bureau of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women within the Department of Justice.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to create a Bureau of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women within the Department of Justice.