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--A
                               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  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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:
    20    § 837-f-2. Missing adults. In the event that a police agency  receives
    21  a  report  that  an  adult  person is missing from his or her normal and
    22  ordinary place of residence and whose whereabouts cannot  be  determined
    23  by  an  individual whose relationship with such adult person would place
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  such individual in a position to have knowledge of  his  or  her  where-
     2  abouts,  and  that such missing adult person has a proven disability, or
     3  may be in physical danger, or is missing after  a  catastrophe,  or  may
     4  have  disappeared involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances where
     5  there is a reasonable concern for his or her safety;  and  such  missing
     6  adult  person  does  not  qualify  as either a missing child pursuant to
     7  section eight hundred thirty-seven-e of this  article  or  a  vulnerable
     8  adult  pursuant  to section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-1 of this arti-
     9  cle, the police agency shall collect information necessary  to  file  an
    10  electronic  report  regarding the missing adult person with the national
    11  crime information center register and submit such electronic  report  to
    12  the national crime information center register.
    13    No later than thirty days after a police agency receives a report that
    14  an  adult  person is missing under this section, the agency shall submit
    15  an electronic report to the National Missing  and  Unidentified  Persons
    16  System (NamUs).
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.