Bill Text: NY S03790 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3790 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2015-11-20 - VETOED MEMO.255 [S03790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03790-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3790
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 17, 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
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police agen-
         cies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is  reported
         to be missing
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.   This act shall be known  and  may  be  cited  as  "Lamont
    2  Dottin's law".
    3    S  2.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-f-2 to
    4  read as follows:
    5    S 837-F-2. MISSING ADULTS. IN THE EVENT THAT A POLICE AGENCY  RECEIVES
    6  A  REPORT  THAT  A PERSON IS MISSING FROM HIS OR HER NORMAL AND ORDINARY
    7  PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND WHOSE  WHEREABOUTS  CANNOT  BE  DETERMINED  BY  A
    8  PERSON  WHOSE  RELATIONSHIP WITH SUCH PERSON WOULD PLACE THEM IN A POSI-
    9  TION TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR WHEREABOUTS,  AND  SUCH  MISSING  PERSON
   10  DOES  NOT  QUALIFY  AS  EITHER A MISSING CHILD PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHT
   11  HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW OR A VULNERABLE ADULT PURSU-
   12  ANT TO SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-F-1 OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW,  THE
   13  POLICE  AGENCY SHALL COLLECT INFORMATION NECESSARY TO FILE AN ELECTRONIC
   14  REPORT WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGISTER. WITHIN TWEN-
   15  TY-FOUR HOURS OF COLLECTING THE INFORMATION, IF THE  POLICE  AGENCY  HAS
   16  NOT  BEEN  NOTIFIED THAT THE MISSING PERSON HAS BEEN LOCATED, THE POLICE
   17  AGENCY SHALL SUBMIT AN ELECTRONIC REPORT REGARDING  THE  MISSING  PERSON
   18  WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGISTER.
   19    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07820-01-5