STATE OF NEW YORK
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6739
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 15, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the transmission of
reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified
Persons System
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 837-e of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
3 1-b. The division shall transmit the report of the missing child to
4 the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) no later
5 than thirty days after entry of a report of a missing child into the
6 register.
7 § 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 4 of section 837-e of the
8 executive law, as amended by chapter 652 of the laws of 1987, are
9 amended to read as follows:
10 (e) insuring the proper disposition of all obsolete register data,
11 provided however that such data for a person who has reached the age of
12 eighteen and remains missing shall be preserved; [and]
13 (f) linking the register with the national crime information center
14 register; and
15 (g) establishing procedures for transmitting a report of a missing
16 child to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
17 pursuant to subdivision one-b of this section.
18 § 3. Section 837-f-2 of the executive law, as added by chapter 316 of
19 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
20 § 837-f-2. Missing adults. In the event that a police agency receives
21 a report that an adult person is missing from his or her normal and
22 ordinary place of residence and whose whereabouts cannot be determined
23 by an individual whose relationship with such adult person would place
24 such individual in a position to have knowledge of his or her where-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 abouts, and that such missing adult person has a proven disability, or
2 may be in physical danger, or is missing after a catastrophe, or may
3 have disappeared involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances where
4 there is a reasonable concern for his or her safety; and such missing
5 adult person does not qualify as either a missing child pursuant to
6 section eight hundred thirty-seven-e of this article or a vulnerable
7 adult pursuant to section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-1 of this arti-
8 cle, the police agency shall collect information necessary to file an
9 electronic report regarding the missing adult person with the national
10 crime information center register and submit such electronic report to
11 the national crime information center register.
12 No later than thirty days after a police agency receives a report that
13 an adult person is missing under this section, the agency shall submit
14 an electronic report to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons
15 System (NamUs).
16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.