Bill Text: NY S07908 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a voluntary registry of individuals with autism, Alzheimer's or dementia who may be at risk of wandering away from home; creates a standardized form available that may be submitted to local law enforcement agencies by family members and caregivers of such individuals that would include identifying information and may include a photograph of the registrant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-26 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07908 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07908-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7908

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, KENNEDY, PERSAUD -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Codes

        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 24 to read as follows:
     3    24. 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 addition, amendment
    16  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    17  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11831-01-3