TO:	Honorable James White, Chair, House Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety
FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1419 by Hull (Relating to the duties of a law enforcement agency regarding missing children and missing persons and to the duties of a justice of the peace or other investigator regarding unidentified bodies.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The provisions of the bill addressed by this analysis would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure as it relates to missing children and persons.  Under the provisions of the bill, certain law enforcement, justice of the peace, and investigator duties relating to cases of missing children and persons would be clarified, and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System would receive information relevant to the investigation of such cases.

This analysis assumes implementing the provisions of the bill would not result in a significant impact on the demand for state correctional resources. The bill does not expressly create a felony offense, increase the punishment for an existing misdemeanor to that of a felony, increase the punishment for an existing felony offense or category of felony level offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for felony community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.