Find Associated Life Cycle

Good day all.  How do I find the Life Cycle that is associated with an item?  I have a lot of parts that are of ItemType s_Part.  The Life Cycle associated to this ItemType is different than the one that is associated with a lot of these parts.  I would like to know how to either change the associated Life Cycle or find the one that is associated with the part so I can edit that one.  

The Life Cycle that is associated to some of the parts only has Released and I need to add in other states if I cannot change the Life Cycle association.  I tried to use the action getItemNextState, but that doesn't work when there is only one state in the Life Cycle.

Thank you for any help that can be provided.