New York Assembly Bill 4496 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on February 16 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations
Pending: Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of deceased persons or unidentified body parts for the purpose of classification and for the state police to forward the samples to the state division of criminal justice services for the purpose of comparison to attempt to determine identity and for the purpose of filing; provides for the forwarding of records to the National Crime Information Center upon such center adopting a policy to accept such records.

Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of deceased persons or unidentified body parts for the purpose of classification and for the state police to forward the samples to the state division of criminal justice services for the purpose of comparison to attempt to determine identity and for the purpose of filing; provides for the forwarding of records to the National Crime Information Center upon such center adopting a policy to accept such records.

Asm. Aileen Gunther [D]	Asm. Jeffrion Aubry [D]	Asm. Vivian Cook [D]	Asm. William Colton [D]
Asm. David McDonough [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Assembly	referred to governmental operations
2023-02-16	Assembly	referred to governmental operations

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A4496
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A04496&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A04496