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An Act To Increase to a Class C Crime the Failure To Report a Missing Child within 24 Hours
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §558 is enacted to read:
§ 558. Failure to report a missing child
 
1.    A person is guilty of failure to report a missing child if that person, being the parent, foster parent, guardian or other person having care or custody of a child, knowingly fails to notify a law enforcement agency of the child's disappearance within 24 hours of becoming aware that the child is missing when that person:
 
A.  Knows that the child is missing; and
 
B.  Knows or reasonably should know that the child is potentially in danger.
 
2.    Failure to report a missing child is a Class C crime.
 
SUMMARY
This bill, modeled after "Caylee's Law," introduced in the State of Florida, makes failing to report a missing child within 24 hours of becoming aware that the child is missing a Class C crime.