Bill Text: NY S00551 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a registry to help locate individuals with autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer's disease or other dementia in the event they go missing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 551A [S00551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00551-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         551--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        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 21 to read as follows:
     3    21. 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  division of criminal
    16  justice services is authorized to take any and all actions necessary  to
    17  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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