Bill Text: NY A03429 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the municipal police training council and the division of state police to develop policies and procedures for police officers to notify family members in-person of a relative's death in certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - substituted by s3150a [A03429 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03429-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3429

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. COOK, JOYNER, DICKENS, GALEF, TAYLOR, LAVINE,
          HUNTER, DAVILA, WILLIAMS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  EPSTEIN,
          GRIFFIN,  HEVESI,  HYNDMAN,  SIMON  --  read  once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          police  officers  to  notify  family members in person of a relative's
          death in certain circumstances

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as "Valeria's
     2  law".
     3    § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     4  603-c to read as follows:
     5    §  603-c. Accidents; police to notify in person.  Every police officer
     6  to whom an accident resulting in death to a person in which  the  police
     7  officer  does  not  have  reasonable cause to believe the deceased would
     8  otherwise have been charged with a violation of  this  chapter  for  the
     9  conduct which resulted in his or her death, shall use reasonable efforts
    10  to  identify  and  notify in person a member of the deceased's family or
    11  household as soon as practicable after such accident if the police offi-
    12  cer has knowledge of the person's death and has knowledge that a  coron-
    13  er, or other official performing like functions has not already notified
    14  a family member. Such personal notification shall indicate without limi-
    15  tation  the  time of the deceased's death, the location of the accident,
    16  and the location of the deceased's body or remains.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    19  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    20  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    21  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07720-01-1