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AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Creates the Reporting of Deaths in Custody Act,provides that in any case in which a person dies while in the custody of: any law enforcement agency, a local or State correctional facility in the State, or a peace officer or as a result of the peace officer’s use of force, the law enforcement agency shall investigate and report the death in writing to the Attorney General, no later than 30 days after the date on which the person in custody or incarcerated died.