Bill Text: NY A08286 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8286 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations 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. In the event that a child reported as missing remains missing 4 thirty days after entry of a report of a missing child into the regis- 5 ter, the commissioner shall transmit the report of the missing child to 6 the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the 7 United States Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice; 8 provided, however, that nothing within this subdivision shall be 9 construed to prohibit transmitting a report of a missing child to the 10 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System sooner than thirty days 11 after such child is reported as missing. 12 § 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 4 of section 837-e of the 13 executive law, as amended by chapter 652 of the laws of 1987, are 14 amended to read as follows: 15 (e) insuring the proper disposition of all obsolete register data, 16 provided however that such data for a person who has reached the age of 17 eighteen and remains missing shall be preserved; [and] 18 (f) linking the register with the national crime information center 19 register.; and 20 (g) establishing procedures for transmitting a report of a missing 21 child to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by 22 the United States Office of Justice Program's National Institute of 23 Justice pursuant to subdivision one-b of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11876-01-7A. 8286 2 1 § 3. Section 837-f-2 of the executive law, as added by chapter 316 of 2 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 837-f-2. Missing adults. 1. In the event that a police agency 4 receives a report that an adult person is missing from his or her normal 5 and ordinary place of residence and whose whereabouts cannot be deter- 6 mined by an individual whose relationship with such adult person would 7 place such individual in a position to have knowledge of his or her 8 whereabouts, and that such missing adult person has a proven disability, 9 or may be in physical danger, or is missing after a catastrophe, or may 10 have disappeared involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances where 11 there is a reasonable concern for his or her safety; and such missing 12 adult person does not qualify as either a missing child pursuant to 13 section eight hundred thirty-seven-e of this article or a vulnerable 14 adult pursuant to section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-1 of this arti- 15 cle, the police agency shall collect information necessary to file an 16 electronic report regarding the missing adult person with the national 17 crime information center register and submit such electronic report to 18 the national crime information center register. 19 2. In the event that a police agency receives a report that an adult 20 person is missing from his or her normal and ordinary place of residence 21 and whose whereabouts cannot be determined by an individual whose 22 relationship with such adult person would place such individual in a 23 position to have knowledge of his or her whereabouts, and that such 24 missing adult person has a proven disability, or may be in physical 25 danger, or is missing after a catastrophe, or may have disappeared 26 involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances where there is a 27 reasonable concern for his or her safety; and such missing adult person 28 does not qualify as either a missing child pursuant to section eight 29 hundred thirty-seven-e of this article or a vulnerable adult pursuant to 30 section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-1 of this article; and such missing 31 adult person remains missing thirty days after the police agency 32 received the report that an adult person is missing, the police agency 33 shall transmit a report to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons 34 System created by the United States Office of Justice Program's National 35 Institute of Justice; provided, however, that nothing within this 36 section shall be construed to prohibit transmitting a report of a miss- 37 ing adult person to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System 38 sooner than thirty days after such adult person is reported as missing. 39 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
