BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SB 1066
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Date of Hearing: July 2, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
SB 1066 (Galgiani) - As Amended: May 27, 2014
Policy Committee: Public
SafetyVote:7-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
Yes Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill expands, revises, and renumbers several provisions of
law relating to missing or unidentified persons. Specifically,
this bill:
1)Expands requirements for postmortem examinations of
unidentified persons to a medical examiner, or other agency
that performs a postmortem examination or autopsy.
2)Expands provisions of law that requires specified information
related to the investigation into the identity of an
unidentified person be submitted, by a coroner, to DOJ within
45 days and 180 days, respectively, to apply to a police
department, sheriff's office, medical examiner, or other law
enforcement agency.
3)Requires that the final report of the investigation into the
identity of the body or human remains of an unidentified
person include any homicide report, anthropology report,
fingerprints, photographs, and autopsy report.
4)Applies existing "Be on the Lookout" (BOLO) requirements
regarding a missing person under 16 years of age to persons
under 21 years of age, as specified.
5)Makes the Attorney General's (AG's) Office database the
statewide database for dental or skeletal x-rays, and requires
the AG's Office to forward the information to the National
Crime Information Center) NCIC.
6)Recasts and renumbers numerous code sections, makes conforming
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cross references and technical amendments.
FISCAL EFFECT
1)Unknown, likely minor, non-reimbursable costs to local
entities for additional autopsy requirements related to
unidentified persons, as these examinations are discretionary.
2)Unknown, potentially moderate, non-reimbursable local law
enforcement costs to expand BOLO-related requirements from
persons under the age of 16 to persons under the age of 21.
3)Absorbable state GF costs to the Department of Justice for
expanded database requirements.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . The author states this bill is "clarifying and
technical in nature" and is intended to make a series of
clarifications and minor expansions to statutes related to
missing persons.
According to the author, "This bill would extend requirements
that are applicable to missing persons under 16 years of age
to missing persons under 21 years of age. The bill expands
responsibilities and applies provisions in current law to a
police department, sheriff's office, medical examiner or other
law enforcement agency investigating the death of an
unidentified person. The bill also requires the DOJ to serve
as a statewide repository for final reports of investigation
and to maintain dental records."
2)There is no formal support or opposition .
Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081