Bill Text: CA AB1574 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1574

Introduced

Bill Title: Murdered or missing indigenous persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1574 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1574-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1574

Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron

February 17, 2023

An act to add Section 14217 to the Penal Code, relating to murdered or missing persons.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1574, as introduced, Waldron. Murdered or missing indigenous persons.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons, particularly children and dependent adults. Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish within the center and to maintain an online, automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons, and requires the center to make information authorized for dissemination that is contained in law enforcement reports regarding missing or unidentified persons accessible to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.

Existing law establishes the Rural Indian Crime Prevention Program, a program of financial and technical assistance for local law enforcement, within the Office of Emergency Services, to target the relationship between law enforcement and indigenous communities to encourage and to strengthen cooperative efforts and to implement crime suppression and prevention programs.

This bill would authorize the Governor to appoint a Red Ribbon Panel to address the murdered or missing indigenous persons (MMIP) crisis, consisting of specified members. The bill would require the panel to produce and submit, by January 1, 2025, the state’s long-term plan to address the MMIP crisis to tribes, California’s federal elected officials, the Legislature, counties, cities, and federal, tribal, state, county, and local law enforcement agencies.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14217 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

14217.

(a) The Governor may appoint a Red Ribbon Panel to address the murdered or missing indigenous persons (MMIP) crisis, consisting of the following members:

(1) Four tribal leaders from northern California.

(2) Four tribal leaders from central California.

(3) Four tribal leaders from southern California.

(4) A chair of the panel, who shall be selected from and by the 12 tribal leaders in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).

(5) The Tribal Affairs Secretary.

(6) A representative from the Department of the California Highway Patrol.

(7) A representative from the State Department of Social Services.

(8) A representative from the Office of Emergency Services.

(9) A representative from the State Department of Public Health.

(10) A representative from the Attorney General’s Office.

(11) The Superintendent of Public Instruction.

(12) Three representatives of counties.

(13) Three representatives of cities.

(14) A representative of federal law enforcement agencies.

(15) A representative of tribal law enforcement agencies.

(16) A representative of county law enforcement agencies.

(17) A representative of city law enforcement agencies.

(18) A Senator.

(19) A Member of the Assembly.

(b) The panel shall produce and submit, by January 1, 2025, the state’s long-term plan to address the MMIP crisis to tribes, California’s federal elected officials, the Legislature, counties, cities, and federal, tribal, state, county, and local law enforcement agencies.