Bill Text: NY A08942 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the transmission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within thirty days when such person may be at immediate risk of death or injury or a match to a record maintained in the NamUs database or within one hundred eighty days in any other case.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-12 - substituted by s7304 [A08942 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08942-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8942 IN ASSEMBLY January 8, 2018 ___________ 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. Subdivision 1-b of section 837-e of the executive law, as 2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the executive law, 3 relating to the transmission of reports of missing persons to the 4 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in legis- 5 lative bills numbers S. 6739 and A. 8286-B, is amended to read as 6 follows: 7 1-b. The division shall transmit the report of the missing child to 8 the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) no later 9 than thirty days after entry of a report of a missing child into the 10 register whenever circumstances indicate that the missing child may be 11 at immediate risk of death or injury, or may be a match to a record 12 maintained in the NamUs unidentified person database and within one 13 hundred eighty days in any other case. 14 § 2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 4 of section 837-e of the executive 15 law as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the executive 16 law, relating to the transmission of reports of missing persons to the 17 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in legis- 18 lative bills numbers S. 6739 and A. 8286-B, are amended to read as 19 follows: 20 (g) establishing procedures for transmitting [a report] reports of [a] 21 missing [child] children and adults to the National Missing and Uniden- 22 tified Persons System (NamUs) pursuant to subdivision one-b of this 23 section and section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-two of this article. 24 § 3. Section 837-f-2 of the executive law, as added by a chapter of 25 the laws of 2017 amending the executive law, relating to the trans- 26 mission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11876-05-8A. 8942 2 1 Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2 6739 and A. 8286-B, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 837-f-2. Missing adults. In the event that a police agency receives 4 a report that an adult person is missing from his or her normal and 5 ordinary place of residence and whose whereabouts cannot be determined 6 by an individual whose relationship with such adult person would place 7 such individual in a position to have knowledge of his or her where- 8 abouts, and that such missing adult person has a proven disability, or 9 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 [No later than thirty days after a police agency receives a report20that an adult person is missing under this section, the agency shall21submit an electronic report to the National Missing and Unidentified22Persons System (NamUs).] The division shall transmit the report of the 23 missing adult to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System 24 (NamUs) within thirty days after entry of a report of a missing adult 25 into the register whenever circumstances indicate that the missing adult 26 may be at immediate risk of death or injury, or may be a match to a 27 record maintained in the NamUs unidentified person database and within 28 one hundred eighty days in any other case. 29 § 4. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 30 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the executive law, 31 relating to the transmission of reports of missing persons to the 32 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in legis- 33 lative bills numbers S. 6739 and A. 8286-B.
