Bill Text: NY S03274 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts "Lamont Dottin's Law"; relates to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults; establishes uniform standards for searching for missing persons; expands state databanks to approach not only the problem of missing children but missing adults as well; requires police departments to establish a trained missing person specialist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 3274A [S03274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03274-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3274--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 reporting duties with
          respect to missing children and adults
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Lamont Dottin's law".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  838-a  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  838-a.  Plans  for  prompt  and uniform standards for searching for
     6  missing persons. 1. In consultation with the division  of  state  police
     7  and other appropriate agencies, the division shall, on or before January
     8  first,  two thousand seventeen, adopt and implement and thereafter regu-
     9  larly update a uniform plan for searching for missing persons. Such plan
    10  shall involve a pro-active, coordinated response,  planned  in  advance,
    11  that  is  triggered  immediately  upon confirmation by a police officer,
    12  peace officer or police agency of a report of a missing person.
    13    2. Such plans shall, at the minimum, require that:
    14    (a) the name of the missing person, a description of  the  person  and
    15  other  pertinent  information  be immediately dispatched over the police
    16  communication system to local, state and national agencies; and
    17    (b) there shall be no presumption that persons  between  the  ages  of
    18  nineteen and sixty-four are not missing.
    19    3.  Police  agencies not connected with the basic police communication
    20  system in use in such jurisdiction shall transmit  such  information  to
    21  the nearest or most convenient teletypewriter point, from which point it
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07375-02-6