An Act to Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code Relating to Missing Persons.
It became law on Sep 21, 2023.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 16
- Latest action
- Sep 21, 2023
What it does
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year.\r \r This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 46. Like Senate Bill No. 46, this Act revises this State's missing children laws to improve search efforts, increase collaboration between law enforcement agencies, and increase public information about missing children.\r \r This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 46 in that it does all of the following:\r (1) Removes language relating to “unemancipated minors” and instead uses the term “child”, as defined in § 302 of Title 1 of the Delaware Code, uniformly throughout Subchapter II of Chapter 85 of Title 11 of the…
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