H-1507.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1736
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Community Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Lekanoff, Springer, Ormsby, Parshley, Hill, Nance, Pollet, and Ramel)
READ FIRST TIME 02/20/25.
AN ACT Relating to procedures and requirements for reporting and investigating missing persons; amending RCW 68.50.320 ; adding a new section to chapter 43.43 RCW; and repealing RCW 36.28A.110 , 36.28A.112 , and 36.28A.120 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 68.50.320 and 2022 c 251 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
When a person reported missing has not been found within thirty days of the report, or at any time the investigating agency suspects criminal activity to be the basis of the victim being missing, the sheriff, chief of police, county coroner or county medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority initiating and conducting the investigation for the missing person shall: (1) File a missing person's report with the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit; (2) initiate the collection of DNA samples from the known missing person and their family members for nuclear and mitochondrial DNA testing along with the necessary consent forms; and (3) (( ask the missing person's family or next of kin to give written consent to contact the dentist or dentists of the missing person and request the person's dental records; and (4) )) enter the case into the national crime information center system through the Washington state patrol electronic database. Upon knowledge from the national crime information center system, the Washington state patrol's crime information center, or similar or subsequent authority, that a person in custody at a jail, or being released from custody, is the subject of a missing person's report, the jail shall notify the agency of original jurisdiction for the missing person's report.