Hawaii Senate Bill 2599 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-23 - (S) Referred to HMS, JDL.
Pending: Senate Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of a child to report the death of a child or location of the corpse of a child to law enforcement within an unspecified number of hours after learning of the death or location of the corpse; requires a parent, guardian, or other person to report the missing child to law enforcement within twenty-four hours after the parent, guardian, or other person obtains knowledge that the child is missing; establishes unspecified felony offenses for reporting violations and for giving false information to law enforcement authorities conducting a missing person investigation or a felony criminal investigation involving a child.

Children; Missing; Child Death; Reporting; Felony Offenses

Sen. Rosalyn Baker [D]	Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland [D]	Sen. Carol Fukunaga [D]	Sen. Brickwood Galuteria [D]
Sen. Donna Kim [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-23		(S) Referred to HMS, JDL.
2012-01-23		(S) Passed First Reading.
2012-01-20		(S) Introduced.

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2599
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/Bills/SB2599_.HTM