Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1332
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/20/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Martin) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 56 and 57
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and subsection
    6  (5) of section 937.022, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         937.022 Missing Endangered Persons Information
    8  Clearinghouse.—
    9         (3) The clearinghouse shall:
   10         (b) Provide a centralized file for the exchange of
   11  information on missing endangered persons.
   12         1. Every state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency
   13  shall submit to the clearinghouse information concerning missing
   14  endangered persons.
   15         2. Any person having knowledge may submit a missing
   16  endangered person report to the clearinghouse concerning a child
   17  or adult younger than 26 years of age whose whereabouts is
   18  unknown, regardless of the circumstances, subsequent to
   19  reporting such child or adult missing to the appropriate law
   20  enforcement agency within the county in which the child or adult
   21  became missing, and subsequent to entry by the law enforcement
   22  agency of the child or person into the Florida Crime Information
   23  Center, and the National Crime Information Center, and the
   24  National Missing and Unidentified Persons System databases. The
   25  missing endangered person report shall be included in the
   26  clearinghouse database.
   27         3. Only the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over
   28  the case may submit a missing endangered person report to the
   29  clearinghouse involving a missing adult age 26 years or older
   30  who is suspected by a law enforcement agency of being endangered
   31  or the victim of criminal activity.
   32         4. Only the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over
   33  the case may make a request to the clearinghouse for the
   34  activation of a state Silver Alert or a Purple Alert involving a
   35  missing adult if circumstances regarding the disappearance have
   36  met the criteria for activation of the Silver Alert Plan or the
   37  Purple Alert.
   38         (5) The law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over a
   39  case involving a missing endangered person shall, upon locating
   40  the child or adult, immediately purge information about the case
   41  from the Florida Crime Information Center, or the National Crime
   42  Information Center, and the National Missing and Unidentified
   43  Persons System databases and notify the clearinghouse.
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete lines 2 - 6
   48  and insert:
   49         An act relating to missing persons; amending ss.
   50         937.021 and 937.022, F.S.; revising provisions
   51         concerning missing children and adults to include
   52         references to the National Missing and Unidentified
   53         Persons System; providing an effective date.