SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Senate has passed a bill that might put some pressure on county coroners when it comes to missing persons cases.
The Senate Thursday passed on a 43-4 vote a bill requiring coroners with custody of human remains to notify the FBI within 72 hours if the remains aren’t identified.
The bill is being called the “Jelani Day Bill” — after the Illinois State University graduate student who went missing last August and was found dead in the Illinois River near LaSalle-Peru the next month. An investigation into the death continues, and has garnered the attention of activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others.
The bill now goes to the Illinois House.
Among Senate Bill 3932‘s listed Senate sponsors were Republican Sally Turner, and Democrat Dave Koehler.
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