2SSB 5477: Implementing the recommendations of the Washington state missing and murdered indigenous women and people task force.

What this bill does

Reestablishes the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force through June 30, 2025. Requires certain entities initiating and conducting an investigation of a reported missing person to enter the case into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System if the missing person has not been found within 30 days of the report, or at any time the investigating agency suspects criminal activity as the basis for the person being missing.

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Floor votes

• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 3, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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