Bill Text: NY A08286 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the transmission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System when such person has been missing for thirty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-11-29 - approval memo.22 [A08286 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08286-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8286--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. OTIS, McDONALD, JOYNER -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules --  Rules
          Committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  transmission  of
          reports  of  missing  persons to the National Missing and Unidentified
          Persons System
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 837-e of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
     3    1-b. The division shall transmit the report of the  missing  child  to
     4  the  National  Missing  and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) no later
     5  than thirty days after entry of a report of a  missing  child  into  the
     6  register.
     7    §  2.  Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 4 of section 837-e of the
     8  executive law, as amended by chapter  652  of  the  laws  of  1987,  are
     9  amended to read as follows:
    10    (e)  insuring  the  proper  disposition of all obsolete register data,
    11  provided however that such data for a person who has reached the age  of
    12  eighteen and remains missing shall be preserved; [and]
    13    (f)  linking  the  register with the national crime information center
    14  register; and
    15    (g) establishing procedures for transmitting a  report  of  a  missing
    16  child  to  the  National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
    17  pursuant to subdivision one-b of this section.
    18    § 3. Section 837-f-2 of the executive law, as added by chapter 316  of
    19  the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11876-04-7
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     1    §  837-f-2. Missing adults. In the event that a police agency receives
     2  a report that an adult person is missing from  his  or  her  normal  and
     3  ordinary  place  of residence and whose whereabouts cannot be determined
     4  by an individual whose relationship with such adult person  would  place
     5  such  individual  in  a  position to have knowledge of his or her where-
     6  abouts, and that such missing adult person has a proven  disability,  or
     7  may  be  in  physical  danger, or is missing after a catastrophe, or may
     8  have disappeared involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances  where
     9  there  is  a  reasonable concern for his or her safety; and such missing
    10  adult person does not qualify as either  a  missing  child  pursuant  to
    11  section  eight  hundred  thirty-seven-e  of this article or a vulnerable
    12  adult pursuant to section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-1 of  this  arti-
    13  cle,  the  police  agency shall collect information necessary to file an
    14  electronic report regarding the missing adult person with  the  national
    15  crime  information  center register and submit such electronic report to
    16  the national crime information center register.
    17    No later than thirty days after a police agency receives a report that
    18  an adult person is missing under this section, the agency  shall  submit
    19  an  electronic  report  to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons
    20  System (NamUs).
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.