A02530
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
930
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY SCHLEGEL CULVER, MILLARD, PICKETT, HILL-EVANS,
R. BROWN, T. DAVIS, ZIMMERMAN, HOWARD, WHEELAND, MASSER,
ROZZI AND BOBACK, MARCH 16, 2021
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 4, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 44 (Law and
Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in
kidnapping, further providing for missing children; and, in
DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for
definitions and for State DNA Data Base, providing for
COLLECTION OF DNA IN INVESTIGATIONS OF HIGH-RISK MISSING
PERSONS AND MISSING CHILDREN, FOR collection of DNA in
investigations of missing persons and for collection of DNA
in investigations of unidentified decedents and further
providing for DNA data base exchange.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2908(a) and (a.1) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 2908. Missing children.
(a) Duties of law enforcement agencies.--Law enforcement
agencies shall have the following duties with respect to missing
children:
(1) To investigate a report of a missing child
immediately upon receipt of the report regardless of the age
of the missing child or the circumstances surrounding the
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