Bill Text: NY A10278 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 10278 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.153 [A10278 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10278-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                        10278--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 20, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, LENTOL, JOYNER -- read once and referred to
          the  Committee  on Governmental Operations -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Rules  --  Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the identification  of
          unknown dead and missing persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  838  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  331  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Every county medical examiner and coroner  shall  promptly  furnish
     5  the  division  [promptly]  and  the  National  Missing  and Unidentified
     6  Persons System created by  the  Office  of  Justice  Program's  National
     7  Institute  of Justice, with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight
     8  inch by eight inch fingerprint cards or the  equivalent  digital  image,
     9  personal  descriptions  and  other  identifying data, including date and
    10  place of death, of all deceased persons whose deaths are  in  a  classi-
    11  fication  requiring inquiry by the medical examiner or coroner where the
    12  deceased is not identified or the medical examiner  or  coroner  is  not
    13  satisfied with the decedent's identification. The division shall prompt-
    14  ly  make  available  personal  descriptions  and other identifying data,
    15  including date and place of death, of such deceased persons to  all  law
    16  enforcement  agencies in the state, and upon request, to law enforcement
    17  agencies outside of the state.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15326-02-6