S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6750
I N S E N A T E
March 6, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- 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 enacting the expedited
missing persons' identification act
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 the "expedited
2 missing persons' identification act."
3 S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 838 of the executive law, as added by
4 chapter 670 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
5 1. Every county medical examiner and coroner shall furnish the divi-
6 sion promptly with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight inch by
7 eight inch fingerprint cards, personal descriptions and other identify-
8 ing data, including date and place of death, of all deceased persons
9 whose deaths are in a classification requiring inquiry by the coroner
10 where the deceased is not identified or the medical examiner or coroner
11 is not satisfied with the decedent's identification. THE DIVISION SHALL
12 PROMPTLY MAKE AVAILABLE PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS AND OTHER IDENTIFYING
13 DATA, INCLUDING DATE AND PLACE OF DEATH, OF SUCH DECEASED PERSONS TO ALL
14 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN THE STATE, AND UPON REQUEST, TO LAW ENFORCE-
15 MENT AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF THE STATE.
16 S 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
17 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14243-03-4