HOUSE BILL NO. 2784 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE ANDERSON.
5252H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To 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 corrections facility, the Missouri state highway patrol shall conduct an 3 independent death investigation. 4 2. In conducting the investigation, the highway patrol shall be granted full access 5 to any records and findings of an autopsy conducted under section 217.412. ✔
EXPLANATION — 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.
Statutes affected: