Requires the Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation any time a person under the age of fifty-five dies within a department of corrections facility

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Requires the Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation any time a person under the age of fifty-five dies within a department of corrections facility

Requires the Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation any time a person under the age of fifty-five dies within a department of corrections facility

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation any time a person under the age of fifty-five dies within a department of corrections facility

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Official Summary Text

Requires the Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation any time a person under the age of fifty-five dies within a department of corrections facility

Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2784
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE ANDERSON.
5252H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o amend chapter 217, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to deaths occurring
within a department of corrections facility .
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 217, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
2 known as section 217.446, to read as follows:
217.446. 1. When any person under fifty-five years of age dies within a
2 department of corr ections facility , the Missouri state highway patr ol shall conduct an
3 independent death investigation.
4 2. In conducting the investigation, the highway patro l shall be granted full access
5 to any record s and findings of an autopsy conducted under section 217.412.
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EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.