Bill Text: NY A09873 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a voluntary registry of individuals with autism, Alzheimer's or dementia who may be at risk of wandering away from home; creates a standardized form available that may be submitted to local law enforcement agencies by family members and caregivers of such individuals that would include identifying information and may include a photograph of the registrant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - referred to governmental operations [A09873 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09873-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9873

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  assisting  state  and
          local  law  enforcement  agencies in establishing a registry to locate
          certain missing individuals

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

     1    Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24.  Promulgate,  in  consultation with the commissioner of the office
     4  for people with developmental disabilities, a standardized form that may
     5  be used by state and local  law  enforcement  agencies  as  a  voluntary
     6  registry  to  help  locate persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disor-
     7  ders, Alzheimer's disease or other dementia, or who are otherwise unable
     8  to communicate and who lose the ability to recognize familiar places  or
     9  faces.  Such  form  may  include  identifying information on the missing
    10  registrant such as physical features, medical  conditions,  whether  the
    11  person  is  non-verbal, and names of family or friends to contact if the
    12  person is located. Such form may also provide for a  photograph  of  the
    13  registrant to be submitted with the form.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    16  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    17  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.




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