** MEDIA ADVISORY**
SENATE LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER PATRICIA'S LAW MONDAY, February 26, 2007
TRENTON - The Senate Law & Public Safety and Veterans Affairs Committee will meet on Monday at 1
p.m. in Committee Room 4 of the State House Annex to consider a list of bills including Patricia's Law, a measure aimed at helping law enforcement personnel locate and safely return missing persons to their families. The bill
is named for Patricia Viola, a woman who disappeared from the kitchen of her Bogota home in 2001. Patricia's husband Jim Viola is scheduled to testify before the Committee during Mondays meeting.
Senator Weinberg's bill, S-2255, is designed to help law enforcement locate missing persons, to enhance the
current system of notifying families of missing persons, and to work to improve the process for identifying human remains.
The proposed legislation reflects model missing persons legislation proposed by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, a federally funded resource center created to support research, legislation and program development for criminal justice.
Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle and Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson, D-Englewood and Teaneck have sponsored identical legislation in the Assembly.
The legislators held a news conference with Patricia's husband Jim on October 19th at the Violas home.
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