Plain English Breakdown
The effective date is not provided in the source material, only that it passed the Legislature.
Using Law Enforcement Funds to Identify Unidentified Human Remains
This law allows specified rural and small county sheriff departments to use up to 20% of their existing funding from the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount for identifying unidentified human remains.
What This Bill Does
- Authorizes specified rural and small county sheriffs' departments to spend part of their allocated funds on identifying unidentified human remains.
- Limits this new spending option to no more than 20% of the total funds received from the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount.
- Allows these funds to be used for forensic examinations needed to identify bodies.
- Permits the use of money for genealogical research.
Who It Names or Affects
- Specified rural and small county sheriff departments that receive funding from the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011.
Terms To Know
- Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount
- A specific fund within the state budget that provides money to help sheriff departments improve their work, located in the Local Revenue Fund 2011.
- Forensic examination
- Scientific testing of physical evidence used in legal investigations, authorized for use with these funds.
- Genealogical research
- Research involving family history and relationships to help identify a person's identity, authorized for use with these funds.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law only applies to the specific rural and small county sheriffs already named in existing funding rules.
- Sheriff departments cannot use more than 20% of these specific funds for this purpose; the rest must be used for other general law enforcement efforts.