S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6710--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 16, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAYER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and Families in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to missing children and vulnerable adults THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 837-m of the executive law, as added by chapter 579 2 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 837-m. Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with respect 4 to missing children AND VULNERABLE ADULTS. The chief of every police 5 department, each county sheriff and the superintendent of state police 6 shall report, at least semi-annually, to the division with respect to 7 specified cases of missing children that are closed. Such reports shall 8 be in the form and manner prescribed by the division and shall contain 9 such information as the division deems necessary including, but not 10 limited to, information regarding recovered children who were arrested, 11 children who were the victims of criminal activity or exploitation and 12 children who were found deceased and information regarding the alleged 13 abductor or killer of such children. ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT 14 REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION MAY, IN ITS DISCRETION, INCLUDE IN SUCH 15 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORTS INFORMATION RELATING TO MISSING VULNERABLE ADULTS AS 16 SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-F-ONE OF THIS 17 ARTICLE. 18 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law; provided however, that effective immediately the 20 division of criminal justice services shall be authorized and directed 21 to amend, add or repeal any rule or regulation necessary for the imple- 22 mentation of this act on its effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02289-05-4