CHAPTER 241

96-H 9160 am

Approved Aug. 6, 1996.

AN ACT RELATING TO ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE CHILDREN OF THE STATE

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 12-1-14 of the General Laws in Chapter 12-1 entitled "Identification and Apprehension of Criminals", is hereby amended to read as follows:

12-1-14. Body attachment -- Nonsupport of children. -- (a) Any body attachment issued by the family court in a case involving {ADD the bureau of family support relating to the ADD} nonsupport of children, shall be entered into the state and police telecommunications system known as the Rhode Island Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, "RILETS". The family court shall be responsible for transmitting all {ADD such ADD} body attachments and cancellations thereof to the state police {ADD Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Identification ADD} for distributing the body attachment information into "RILETS". Within the body attachment, the information entered in "RILETS" shall include date of birth and social security number when available. The family court shall be responsible for transmitting information regarding all {ADD such ADD} body attachments and cancellations thereof to the state police {ADD Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Identification ADD} for entering the body attachment information into "RILETS". The family court shall transmit the original body attachment to the moving party {ADD Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Identification ADD} .

(b) Any peace officer as defined in section 12-7-21 shall have the authority to execute a body attachment as issued by the family court pursuant to section 8-10-3.1.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.



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